Hidden Gems just moved a step closer

[milehighassassin]

Rocky Mountain National Park and Dominguez Canyons Move One Major Step Closer to Wilderness Designation



A snowy winter day on Red Table Mountain. The proposed Red Table Mountain wilderness area includes Red Table Mountain, which is an enormous 18-mile long sandstone massif dividing the Eagle Creek watershed from the Fryingpan River.

2009 is shaping up to be a fantastic year for wilderness. The proposals to protect Rocky Mountain National Park and Dominguez Canyons as wilderness took a significant step closer to becoming reality with the passage of Senate Bill 22 on January 15. The U.S. Senate passed the bipartisan Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 which would permanently protect more than 2 million acres of America’s wilderness including 316,000 acres in Colorado. The omnibus lands act would provide the greatest expansion of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 15 years, and the first wilderness designation in Colorado since James Peak Wilderness was passed in 2002. These are exciting times indeed.
The legislation now moves to the House for approval, where leadership is expected to take it up as early as next week.
Please ask your Representative to NOT pass the House version with no amendments (or if you live on the West Slope, thank Representative John Salazar for his tireless work on the Dominguez Canyons wilderness proposal), and help permanently protect these Colorado icons!

Learn more about Rocky Mountain National Park and the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area.


White River National Forest Travel Management Plan Comment Period Closes

A big thank you to all of you who submitted comments on the White River Travel Management Plan (TMP) Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS). The TMP determines which roads and trails will exist on the ground throughout the forest and what recreational uses will be allowed on each of these trails. In terms of the Hidden Gems proposed wilderness areas it is important that the decisions made in the TMP ensure the wilderness character of these areas is maintained.

In addition to the individual comments submitted, there were two sets of group comments that were submitted to the US Forest Service by the January 6, 2009 deadline. One set of generalized comments was signed and submitted by nearly 30 groups committed to quiet recreation on the forest. Another set of more detailed comments with route by route suggestions for protecting the wilderness quality of Hidden Gems proposed areas was signed by eight organizations.

Now it is up to the US Forest Service to analyze all the comments that were submitted and publish the final Environmental Impact Statement later this year.

Thanks again for all the hard work and support!

(This is an e-mail sent out by Hidden Gems)

Act now, time is running out.

 

[Jimmy]

(This is an e-mail sent out by Hidden Gems)

Act now, time is running out.

Hey you wanted change and now you are getting it! YOUR elected officials are hard at work on the important stuff like what the greenie's wish. This is just the start

 

[duke1n]

How come Yobama supporters have nothing to say regarding their support for a party who's goal it is to shut down all public lands to motorized use and an end to snowmobiles?

 

[milehighassassin]

That's the team spirit!

 

[duke1n]

I'm not part of the Yobama/Dem cult so please explain? Where have I gone wrong in thinking that it's a complete dichotomy for a sledder to support a party that is in direct opposition to sledding? I'm all ears dude...

 

[MtnDoo]

 

[milehighassassin]

I'm not part of the Yobama/Dem cult so please explain? Where have I gone wrong in thinking that it's a complete dichotomy for a sledder to support a party that is in direct opposition to sledding? I'm all ears dude...

Direct opposition? I think you mean IN-Direct opposition.

Many of them are not AGAINST snowmobiling they simply do not know much about snowmobiling but it sure sounds good politically for them to say they want to preserve wild areas and open space (who doesn't want that?)

We want equal access and shared use.

This issue is not about who you voted for for President. Obama is not pushing this through, YOUR representatives ARE. If you want to sit back and point fingers saying, I didn't vote for that guy, so I'm not going to do anything about it, then go ahead. Just no B1tching afterwards.

Get involved. and just because you support one guy for president doesn't mean you believe in everything his party tries to do.


So go ahead, sit back, laugh, make jokes, be funny....

 

[DenverR1]

Hey you wanted change and now you are getting it! YOUR elected officials are hard at work on the important stuff like what the greenie's wish. This is just the start

I think he is saying that milehighassassin voted for Barry.

 

[duke1n]

You're going to try and give me a grammar lesson? Good luck with that junior I actually made it through college. The party you support does not indirectly oppose sledding, they directly oppose it! Its no joke you placed your desire to have a man of color elected higher than your desire to keep our public lands open to sledding. That really was what it was about for you huh?

 

[dntgtstk]

politics?

The election is over children. Go ride...smile.

 

[duke1n]

I'm sure you're someone's alternate ego on here. Whatever...

The election is over children. Go
ride...smile.

I'm just curious if MHA voted for Mark Udall our new Colorado Senator? Now there's a liberal that is adamantly opposed to sledders. I know, I've spoken with him at length over this issue. How will you rationalize that MHA?

 

[milehighassassin]

You're going to try and give me a grammar lesson? Good luck with that junior I actually made it through college. The party you support does not indirectly oppose sledding, they directly oppose it! Its no joke you placed your desire to have a man of color elected higher than your desire to keep our public lands open to sledding. That really was what it was about for you huh?

If you're educated then explain to me how I mentioned grammar.

The Dems do not DIRECTLY appose snowmobilling. They do try and protect open space, which IN-DIRECTLY effects snowmobilling.

My vote had nothing to do with the guy's color. It had to do with voting who I thought would do a better job of fixing our country, the one that is going bankrupt and losing jobs daily. I voted for a guy that would try and help the working people instead of his board of directors. Yes, I might have put sledding on the back burner but believe it or not there are more important things in this country than snowmobiling.

Unless our economy changes along with many other things, it won't matter for many of us if we have open land or not, because we won't be able to afford to ride. With that said, Obama is not going after this land, private groups are making this push. So now you can either get involved and prevent this or get on here and flame me for who I voted for in the Presidency.

 

[Dogmeat]

(This is an e-mail sent out by Hidden Gems)

Act now, time is running out.

Makes ya pretty glad ya voted for Obama huh?

 

[Dogmeat]

If you're educated then explain to me how I mentioned grammar.

The Dems do not DIRECTLY appose snowmobilling. They do try and protect open space, which IN-DIRECTLY effects snowmobilling.

My vote had nothing to do with the guy's color. It had to do with voting who I thought would do a better job of fixing our country, the one that is going bankrupt and losing jobs daily. I voted for a guy that would try and help the working people instead of his board of directors. Yes, I might have put sledding on the back burner but believe it or not there are more important things in this country than snowmobiling.

Unless our economy changes along with many other things, it won't matter for many of us if we have open land or not, because we won't be able to afford to ride. With that said, Obama is not going after this land, private groups are making this push. So now you can either get involved and prevent this or get on here and flame me for who I voted for in the Presidency.

You support the people who want to turn the entire rocky mountain region into the King's Forest. Like it or not, that's who you are supporting.

The next thing you should do is put gas in your Excursion then ***** and piss and moan about how evil all the oil companies are.

I am really sorry and I don't meat to flame you in the non-political forum or whatever, but I have to admit how comical I find it that you're posting this here after rampant support for all things democrat.

 

[MtnDoo]

This is no flame, but.. you need to cut through the BS here.

If snowmobilers vote for candidates that oppose snowmobiling, snowmobilers loose access, rights, funding and terrain.

Local, county, state, and national elections HAVE consequences that are ultimately felt locally.

Open space can remain open, yet allow multi-use - that's not what they're after. Open space goes to development, not use.

Unfortunately, the consequences of our electoral system will shut more land to snowmobiling over the next 8 years, than the previous 8 years.

That said - we need to fight to preserve what we can.

MtnDoo

 

[Supplicate]

Obama: 1
Retards: 0

 

[duke1n]

If you're educated then explain to me how I mentioned grammar.

The Dems do not DIRECTLY appose snowmobilling

It's oppose not appose ok. You're just another sucker that bought into the lefty propaganda. So now we have Yobama nominating two people to cabinet posts that dodged their tax responsibilities. I thought the Dems were going to usher in a new era of responsibility? You, the liberal main stream media, and lefties everywhere, would screaming bloody murder if these were Bush nominees. Get out of sledding dude you do us more damage than good. Disgusted!

 

[Rprecision]

You're going to try and give me a grammar lesson? Good luck with that junior I actually made it through college. The party you support does not indirectly oppose sledding, they directly oppose it! Its no joke you placed your desire to have a man of color elected higher than your desire to keep our public lands open to sledding. That really was what it was about for you huh?

I really dont like you duke but.........I think your right !

Oh yeah dont worry this is change you can belive in....its hope

 

[MtnDoo]

To quote Obama's pastor who he can no more disown than his own white grandmother: "America's chickens are coming hoooooooome......to roost!"

- RJW.