Didn't I read in Louise's book that the area used for LSR is checkerboarded with
private deeded tracts? "Course private land can be taken "for the public
good..............)
Ed
Wester S Potter wrote:
> List,
> I think Save the Salt Coalition and all concerned who are on the board have
> a good relationship with the BLM and Reilly Industries (who is paying for
> the pumping) and have one of the most active legal teams to ever concern
> themselves with western lands access, damage and preservation. Another
> factor is that this is not all public lands. Reilly owns sections of the
> flats as do the Utah Schools. BLM manages it but it is not all federal
> lands.
> Even though Rick Vesco is no longer Save the Salt Chairman, former USFRA
> President Larry Volk is and we hear from both of them regularly about lands
> issues.
> There is a greater threat from the Washington crowd who want to legislate
> western lands with no input from the locals who are effected. The
> Gore/Clinton camp has been very nasty about Utah since Bill came in third in
> the voting in the 1996 election in this state. They created the Grand
> Staircase National Park without setting foot in the state and over the
> protests of the full legislative body from Utah. Seventy percent of the
> State is tied up in "Federal Lands" administered by the BLM.
> The easiest thing for these "environmentalist" (read it as I want to play
> where no one else can) groups to point fingers at is the spills from oil,
> coolant and the black line on the salt. The racers have to help as much as
> they can to contain these things and lessen their impact on the salt. Other
> than that they are complaining about the fuels we use but even that is so
> minimal that they have very little to complain about.
> Be ready! If there is a serious threat you will hear from us immediately.
> Wes Potter Secretary, USFRA
>
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> > From: ardunbill@webtv.net
> > To: landspeedracer@email.msn.com (John Beckett), land-speed@autox.team.net
>
> > Subject: Re: IMPORTANT:Possible Salt Flats Issue
> > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:40:44 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >John and Group, just as sure as you're born this is just another
> >non-issue, foolish agitation from somebody about some hobgoblin. Sure,
> >there are environmental groups, sure they can hire lawyers to go
> >confront the BLM about this, that or the other. Sure, some of them are
> >fanatics and crackpots, and sure, they sometimes create a nuisance.
> >
> >The fact is, the environment has to be used by people, and, the
> >environment has to be protected in a REASONABLE fashion from more abuse
> >than it can handle. But, I am quite certain that speed trials people,
> >to most of whom the Salt Flats is a hallowed place, create no adverse
> >impact on them by running with care a few times a year, and I'm quite
> >certain the BLM feels this way about it.
> >
> >Anybody can complain about anything, and anybody can sue anybody about
> >anything, but the Law, the Courts, and Congress set great store by
> >precedent and tradition. The racers have been at Bonneville over 50
> >years, do not hurt it, and I am quite certain that politically, and
> >under the Law, this activity will be conducted there in 50 years and 100
> >years, the same as it is today.
> >
> >I see no reason for speed trials people to get all upset and ride off in
> >all directions by a little spate of agitation like this. In all
> >likelihood it will disappear without a trace like a pebble tossed into a
> >pond. Cheers from ArdunBill (who has his toe in the water of local
> >politics) in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
> >
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