tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691720833849001029.post3552646241695428622..comments2024-02-05T23:26:20.169-05:00Comments on Wild Horse (and Burro) Warriors: Wild Horse & Burro Land Use Plans According to FLPMA: Non-ExistantMz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691720833849001029.post-65288494146474732312011-01-26T10:27:09.751-05:002011-01-26T10:27:09.751-05:00...And John you are exactly right on that "pr......And John you are exactly right on that "privitization of public lands" thing,....and we are not alone in that thinking; http://www.thestatecolumn.com/state_politics/idaho/sen-mike-crapo-wild-lands-order-circumvents-public-congress/<br />Got to keep the pressure up for REAL change!Mz.Many Nameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691720833849001029.post-65462667756477091702011-01-26T04:10:40.318-05:002011-01-26T04:10:40.318-05:00The problem is that the BLM NEVER recognized (and ...The problem is that the BLM NEVER recognized (and never will) the wild equines as resouces. A BLM big-whig told me himself....said that they considered their managment a "sub-activity" of the BLM......Mz.Many Nameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691720833849001029.post-50592317617978644882010-11-23T13:18:50.628-05:002010-11-23T13:18:50.628-05:00Hiya;
Lets talk about the Sheldon Refuge mana...Hiya;<br /> Lets talk about the Sheldon Refuge management. Our families mine the Nevada State gemstone; Black Fire Opal and guide tours for miners to photographers. <br /><br /> There's no crippling visual blight here, let alone any chemicals. We can't own it. The BLM estimate to just apply for a title to a claim is over $60,000 dollars of fees and costs plus the current land value not for $2.50 an ac.<br /><br /> We are not big environmental hazards here and don't fence off our land from the animals or tourists. We only mine like nature naturally eroded here in this active volcanic fault zone above a coming volcano and we improve the environment for the animals, not degrade it. They just don't want us or the horses here at all, for we are a "management cost" problem to them.<br /><br /> They have already reduced this mining district by half a million acres in repeated land withdrawals. The Nature Conservancy has bought hundreds of acres (spelled the water)and given it to NWR to manage. They want permission to make up rules when to bulldoze our cabins or bury active mines regardless of how we work casually mining.<br /> The NWR themselves don't do needed maintenance to the swimming pond as it is right now washing out. They could save the pool now, but for over a year they just come and look behind me like I was vandalizing it instead of clearing the grate like they didn't. I also had to breach the beaver dams that flooded McKee handicapped fishing pool twice into the campground. Now this new creek, is making potholes and a swamp by the info sign as it runs across the campground entrance instead of crossing to the bobcat grove. Now those trees might die due to negligence. How is this good management??? We were told our families could mine here and our grandfathered/granted rights were secure. Now they want to rewrite all the rules over with new unproven agenda.<br /><br />The government can mine?<br /><br />e 3) So the government can seize mineral rights, like they closed all of northwestern Nevada to prospecting and claiming, but THEN Mine with a government company in direct competition.<br /><br /> Ask the Indians how that worked out. Please tell The Dept of the Interior multiple use means the PUBLIC GETS TO USE IT.<br /><br /> Thanks for considering my position on this.John Churchhttp://www.virginvalleyopal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691720833849001029.post-6653678220921363762010-11-18T22:08:33.325-05:002010-11-18T22:08:33.325-05:00Who can show me an "early day" (post 197...Who can show me an "early day" (post 1976) Land Use Plan that was developed (persuant to the FLPMA provisions) for the singular purpose of laying out Wild Horse and Burro Lands Management?" <br />Seems to be there should have been ONE MASTER Land Use Plan that would recognize them as a resource and act as a general guide to managing them as a National Herd. I am thinking that this was never done, either as a general guide or on a herd by herd area basis. Just another violation of law the BLM is guilty of.Mz.Many Nameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com