From: Utah Wilderness Coalition Subject: (cwild) Great opinion piece Date: 01 Jul 2002 12:17:13 -0600 This listserv is designed to keep Utahns informed about wilderness issues by providing articles and letters from Utah's newspapers. It is our hope that information posted here will provide motivation for you to write your own letter to the editor. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. Diverse volunteer opportunities will also be posted when available. To give FEEDBACK regarding this list, please send your comments or questions to: cwild@xmission.com (DO NOT "REPLY" TO THIS MESSAGE). _ Fantastic opinion piece by Chip Ward. Please respond to this by sending your own letter to the editor at:letters@standard.net Guest Commentary: Hansen's tactics unnecessary, will attract powerful opposition Sun, June 30, 2002 By CHIP WARD Guest Commentary Jim Hansen is at it again -- confusing cynicism for cleverness, and vindictiveness for strategy. As mentioned in a recent guest commentary authored by Private Fuel Storage Chairman John D. Parkyn, Congressman Hansen excoriated the Sierra Club and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance for opposing his attempt to sneak wilderness legislation into a defense budget bill in order to stop the proposed Skull Valley above-ground nuclear waste site (June 21 guest commentary, "Hansen "sneaky," but supports Yucca"). As a longtime leader of the opposition to the transfer and storage of nuclear waste in Utah, I want it to be clear that I fundamentally disagree with Mr. Hansen. Likewise, I believe that the two organizations Mr. Hansen unfairly demonizes have excellent reasons for opposing this maneuver. First, it is important to understand that Mr. Hansen could effectively stop the Skull Valley waste site if he would simply designate a Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area with standard wilderness management language. By doing so, the proposed route for the railroad line that would import nuclear waste to the Skull Valley site would be blocked. Mr. Hansen is in an excellent position to do this simple task since he chairs the House committee that handles such issues. Unfortunately, Hansen got greedy and then fumbled the ball. He let his career-long hostility to the Wilderness Act and a near paranoid concern for the future of Hill Air Force Base and its associated bombing range get the better of him. Instead of coming through the front door he controls with a clean wilderness bill aimed at blocking nuke waste, Hansen snuck a provision into a defense budget amendment that would turn west desert wilderness far and wide into a de facto military colony. His "bill" contains the same tired old management loopholes that have doomed every one of his previous attempts to pass wilderness legislation because his colleagues refuse to corrupt the way Congress designates and governs wilderness to suit Jim Hansen"s personal career agenda. The unprecedented provisions he wants include: Allowing new on-the-ground military development on Bureau of Land Management lands designated as wilderness, including "the installation of new communication, instrumentation or other equipment . . ." Permitting the military to close public access within designated BLM wilderness without the agreement of the wilderness manager. Unlike previous desert wilderness bills, explicitly deny a federally reserved water right necessary to protect wildlife and other natural resources within designated wilderness. Stop any further land-use planning by the BLM within the Utah Test and Training Range without the permission of the secretary of the Air Force and the Utah National Guard. BLM managers have never before been placed within this kind of legal straightjacket. Wilderness areas in other parts of the country co-exist with military training areas without these onerous provisions. If standard wilderness management language is good enough for the rest of the nation, then it"s good enough for Utah. And why would congressmen from states that also have military bases vulnerable to closure change the way we manage wilderness to give Hansen"s back-yard bombing range unprecedented powers and advantages? Why would states with nuclear waste they would like to ship to Utah agree to this? Why would environmental groups go along? By loading his scheme with so much bogus baggage, Mr. Hansen has managed to arouse every possible opponent. Where"s the "common sense" in that? Nice work, Jim. Like most Utahns, I am outraged that anyone would treat our state as a dumping ground for the nation"s nuclear waste. I wish Mr. Hansen had coordinated his efforts with those who are working to prevent such dangerous materials from being shipped to Utah. By trying to cram a poison pill down the throats of citizens who want to protect our spectacular wilderness landscapes, Mr. Hansen has likely blown his one chance to prevent the Skull Valley dump from becoming a reality. Playing a self-evident blame game won"t mitigate his failure. The people of Utah have not been served well. Chip Ward is chair of Families Against Incinerator Risk and the author of "Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West."" He lives in Grantsville. _ Ken Venables Utah Wilderness Coalition P.O. 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Date: 17 Jul 2002 10:04:22 -0600 This listserv is designed to keep Utahns informed about wilderness issues by providing articles and letters from Utah's newspapers. It is our hope that information posted here will provide motivation for you to write your own letter to the editor. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. Diverse volunteer opportunities will also be posted when available. To give FEEDBACK regarding this list, please send your comments or questions to: cwild@xmission.com (DO NOT "REPLY" TO THIS MESSAGE). _ Gang: This article appeared in today's D-News. It appears Hansen and company=20 are now attacking the status of Wilderness Study Areas (WSA's). With the=20 end of this session of Congress quickly approaching, the opportunity to=20 voice our opinions about Hansen's short sighted proposals for our public=20 lands is declining. Please take advantage of this opportunity today by=20 writing a response to this article. Please send your response in the form=20 of a letter to: letters@desnews.com Hansen wilderness plan is still unfair By Lee Davidson Deseret News Washington correspondent WASHINGTON =97 If a playing field has been slanted unfairly in one=20 direction for 28 years, why merely level it now? Why not slant it in the=20 other direction to help the long-disadvantaged team? That seems to be the reasoning by House Resources Committee Chairman Jim= =20 Hansen, R-Utah, and his allies in another chapter of the decades-long wars= =20 over how much land in the West to protect as formal wilderness. At issue is how to treat wilderness study areas (WSAs). They were created under terms of the Wilderness Protection Act of 1964.=20 The idea was to stop any development there temporarily while federal=20 agencies studied how much acreage within them was truly worthy to be=20 declared permanent wilderness. The trouble is that WSAs are managed as if they were already formal=20 wilderness until Congress changes their status. That means no motorized=20 vehicles, no mining, no road construction, no timber cutting, no ranching=20 or other such development. If Congress never touches the WSAs again, environmental groups=20 essentially win with everything possible protected as wilderness. It doesn't give them much= =20 incentive to negotiate reducing protected acreage to end fights over=20 wilderness. As Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., a Hansen ally, said last week, "Wilderness=20 study areas are the Holy Grail of the high priests of The Wilderness=20 Society: you never touch them because you've already won." To illustrate further, Utah has 3.2 million acres of WSAs administered by= =20 the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The BLM recommended years ago that 1.9= =20 million acres be declared as formal wilderness and that 1.3 million acres=20 revert to other uses. However, all 3.2 million acres continue to be managed as if they were=20 formal wilderness because groups are unable to compromise on any possible=20 reduction in Congress. In fact, environmental groups are pushing for=20 additions and seek about 9 million acres of wilderness protection on BLM=20 lands in Utah. In the last Congress, Hansen came up with a bill that would tip the=20 scales in favor of pro-development forces. A similar version is being=20 pushed this year with Hansen's blessing by Rep. Butch Otter, R-Idaho. It simply would make WSAs disappear after 10 years, instead of existing=20 forever, if Congress fails to change their status. Hansen and Otter say that would force environmentalists to the table to=20 negotiate before the 10 years run out and their beloved WSAs lose all=20 wilderness protection. However, environmentalist members of Congress say the bill does much more= =20 and may essentially give pro-development forces an automatic win. "All they have to do is run out the clock," complained Rep. Mark Udall,=20 D-Colo., and WSAs would revert to multiple-use lands with no wilderness=20 protection. Udall even unsuccessfully proposed an amendment to change the name of the= =20 bill from "America's Wilderness Protection Act" to "America's Wilderness=20 Termination Act." Udall said, "We should have some truth in labeling." Hansen and allies swear they do not intend to use the bill to wipe out=20 all wilderness protection. But they would create a slanted field that could= =20 allow it. The bill passed Hansen's GOP-controlled Resources Committee last week. It= =20 could also pass the GOP-controlled House, although little time remains in=20 Congress this year and Democrats have promised a bruising battle there. Its= =20 chance of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate seem slim. But maybe a bill to truly level the field could pass Congress especially= =20 by those who are tired of the too-long wilderness fights. Such leveling could come by mandating that just those portions of WSAs=20 that federal agencies say are not worthy of wilderness would disappear=20 after 10 years. In the case of Utah's 3.2 million acres of WSAs, that would mean 1.3=20 million would revert to multiple use after 10 years but 1.9 would continue= =20 on as a WSA with full wilderness protection until Congress acts. That would give both sides reason to negotiate and work to protect or=20 increase turf. If they don't, the recommendations by the BLM would stand=20 which may be more fair than the situations either under current law or the= =20 new bill. A level field would make both sides argue the merits and not hide behind= =20 sneaky rules they hope would give them automatic wins without making their= =20 cases. _ Ken Venables Utah Wilderness Coalition P.O. Box 520974 Salt Lake City, UT 84152 (801)486-2872 wildutah@xmission.com - Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ** TO SUBSCRIBE:If you have been forwarded this message and would like to subscribe to the list, address an email to majordomo@lists.xmission.com with only the words "subscribe cwild" in the body of the message (without quotes) or visit our web site at: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html ** TO UNSUBSCRIBE: address an email to majordomo@lists.xmission.com and type only the words "unsubscribe cwild" in the message body (without the quotes) ** To view THE FAQ LIST please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html#faq ** If you would like to review the tips on writing effective letters to the editor, please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-letters.html#how ** To view a complete list of where to send your letters please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-letters.html#where ** If you would like to view the privacy policy please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html#faq ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Utah Wilderness Coalition Subject: (cwild) Great LTE Date: 22 Jul 2002 09:32:13 -0600 This listserv is designed to keep Utahns informed about wilderness issues by providing articles and letters from Utah's newspapers. It is our hope that information posted here will provide motivation for you to write your own letter to the editor. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. Diverse volunteer opportunities will also be posted when available. To give FEEDBACK regarding this list, please send your comments or questions to: cwild@xmission.com (DO NOT "REPLY" TO THIS MESSAGE). _ Gang: This letter appeared in today's D-News. Please voice your own opinion by submitting a letter to: letters@desnews.com Focus on saving wilds I'm glad to see that Lee Davidson's July 17 article recognizes the unfairness inherent in Rep. Jim Hansen's latest attempt to interfere with the wilderness designation process. To set a clock on how long a study area can be managed to protect its wilderness qualities would be to grant wilderness opponents nearly absolute power to force wilderness lovers to cave in. But Davidson should also stop repeating the tired lines about environmentalists' refusal to compromise and their satisfaction with the status quo of WSAs. We are NOT satisfied, because we have not achieved our goal of permanent protection. Rep. Hansen has clung obstinately to extremist provisions in every other wilderness-related legislation he has sponsored. There is also Rep. Hansen's absolute refusal for more than a dozen years to allow the Redrock Wilderness Bill to be voted on by Congress. In any case, it's about time the media in Utah and elsewhere recognized wilderness "antis" as the real obstructionists. Susan E. Sweigert Salt Lake City _ Ken Venables Utah Wilderness Coalition P.O. Box 520974 Salt Lake City, UT 84152 (801)486-2872 wildutah@xmission.com - Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ** TO SUBSCRIBE:If you have been forwarded this message and would like to subscribe to the list, address an email to majordomo@lists.xmission.com with only the words "subscribe cwild" in the body of the message (without quotes) or visit our web site at: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html ** TO UNSUBSCRIBE: address an email to majordomo@lists.xmission.com and type only the words "unsubscribe cwild" in the message body (without the quotes) ** To view THE FAQ LIST please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html#faq ** If you would like to review the tips on writing effective letters to the editor, please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-letters.html#how ** To view a complete list of where to send your letters please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-letters.html#where ** If you would like to view the privacy policy please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html#faq ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Utah Wilderness Coalition Subject: (cwild) More exploration in potential wilderness Date: 25 Jul 2002 11:20:16 -0600 This listserv is designed to keep Utahns informed about wilderness issues by providing articles and letters from Utah's newspapers. It is our hope that information posted here will provide motivation for you to write your own letter to the editor. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. Diverse volunteer opportunities will also be posted when available. To give FEEDBACK regarding this list, please send your comments or questions to: cwild@xmission.com (DO NOT "REPLY" TO THIS MESSAGE). _ Friends: More proof that the Bush/Cheney energy policy is adversely affecting our public lands here in Utah. Please take 5 minutes and pen a response to this letter giving your opinion on oil/gas exploration in potential wilderness. Send your letter to: letters@sltrib.com Book Cliffs Energy Probes Planned Thursday, July 25, 2002 BY BRENT ISRAELSEN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A global energy exploration company that ran "thumper trucks" across federal land near Dead Horse Point last year now wants to search for oil and gas on 2 million acres of federal, state and tribal lands in the Book Cliffs. The seismic exploration by Veritas DGC Land Inc. is intended to locate the fossil fuel deposits more precisely, thereby minimizing disturbance to the lands from exploratory wells, according to a U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) environmental assessment. As the Bush administration pushes for more domestic energy production on public lands, the Vernal field office of the BLM is poised to approve the Veritas project, which would occur in a vast, mostly unpopulated region of eastern Utah roughly the combined size of Rhode Island and Delaware. Although the land in question has been set aside for oil and gas leasing, environmentalists oppose the project, primarily because it would disturb four areas they propose for wilderness protection. They also worry the project will crush sensitive soils, damage American Indian cultural sites and threaten wildlife, including some of the state's best deer and elk herds. "Time and time again, [the] BLM has shown a blatant disregard for federal environmental laws that require a thorough and up-front analysis of significant projects such as this one," said Steve Bloch, attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA). SUWA and a dozen other regional and national environmental groups have asked the BLM to extend by 60 days a public comment period scheduled to end Aug. 12. BLM field manager Dave Howell said he will decide this week whether to extend the deadline. Under its proposal, Veritas, which has an office in Denver, would crisscross the exploration area with 17 lines, ranging from 15 miles to 53 miles in length and totaling about 472 miles. At 330-foot intervals along each line, Veritas would drill a hole 60 feet deep and about 4 inches in diameter. The holes would be filled with between 3 pounds and 11 pounds of Pentolite explosive. The seismic waves from the blasts would be recorded by cables and "geophones" laid out along each line. About one third of the lines, those located in relatively flat terrain, would be accessed with trucks. Another third, located in rougher terrain, would be accessed with balloon-wheeled buggies. The remaining third, located in extremely rugged terrain or in areas the BLM believes have wilderness characteristics, would be accessed by helicopter. Wilderness study areas, which are part of the BLM's official recommendation for wilderness protection, would be avoided. No special considerations, how- ever, would be given to wilderness areas proposed by environmentalists. In all, an estimated 381 acres would be disturbed by the seismic operation, according to the environmental assessment. That figure represents about 0.02 percent of the 2 million-acre project area, which already is home to 2,869 oil and gas wells and is largely open to grazing, hunting and off-highway vehicle use. "Given past, present and future uses, the proposed [Veritas project] would not appreciably add to the impacts expected from mineral development, grazing and recreation," states the environmental assessment. Howell said the Veritas project impacts would be "pretty minimal." Unlike its seismic project near Dead Horse Point and Canyonlands last year, Veritas does not plan to use large "thumper trucks," which pound the ground to produce seismic waves. As a result, Howell said, impacts to the soils will be reduced. Bloch disagreed: "These types of seismic exploration projects cause significant impacts to the environment and the BLM is refusing to acknowledge that." The Veritas project, Bloch said, should be subjected to an environmental impact statement, a more rigorous review than an environmental assessment. SUWA last year unsuccessfully challenged the Veritas project near Dead Horse Point. However, earlier this year, the group persuaded the U.S. Department of Interior's Board of Land Appeals to stop geophysical firm Western Geco from conducting a similar project near Arches National Park. That project is on hold pending a review by the board, which is expected to issue a ruling on SUWA's complaint by Sept. 1. _ Ken Venables Utah Wilderness Coalition P.O. Box 520974 Salt Lake City, UT 84152 (801)486-2872 wildutah@xmission.com - Thank you for your interest in Utah Wilderness issues! ** TO SUBSCRIBE:If you have been forwarded this message and would like to subscribe to the list, address an email to majordomo@lists.xmission.com with only the words "subscribe cwild" in the body of the message (without quotes) or visit our web site at: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html ** TO UNSUBSCRIBE: address an email to majordomo@lists.xmission.com and type only the words "unsubscribe cwild" in the message body (without the quotes) ** To view THE FAQ LIST please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html#faq ** If you would like to review the tips on writing effective letters to the editor, please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-letters.html#how ** To view a complete list of where to send your letters please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-letters.html#where ** If you would like to view the privacy policy please visit: http://www.uwcoalition.org/getinvolved/grassroots/ed-campaign/ed-listserv.html#faq ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Utah Wilderness Coalition Subject: (cwild) Write today! Date: 31 Jul 2002 09:11:13 -0600 This listserv is designed to keep Utahns informed about wilderness issues by providing articles and letters from Utah's newspapers. It is our hope that information posted here will provide motivation for you to write your own letter to the editor. Please forward this email to others who might be interested in staying abreast of wilderness issues in Utah. Diverse volunteer opportunities will also be posted when available. To give FEEDBACK regarding this list, please send your comments or questions to: cwild@xmission.com (DO NOT "REPLY" TO THIS MESSAGE). _ This article appeared in today's SL Tribune. Please respond by sending your= =20 letter to: letters@sltrib.com SUWA: Save Antiquities by Creating Wilderness Wednesday, July 31, 2002 BY BRENT ISRAELSEN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE For a new direction in its quest to set aside millions of acres=20 of public lands in Utah as wilderness, a Utah environmental group has turned to antiquity. On Tuesday, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance launched "Preserving Prehistory," a campaign aimed at increasing federal protection for Utah's vast archaeological and paleontological=20 resources. At the heart of the effort is the renewed call for Congress to=20 pass the "Redrock Wilderness Act," a SUWA-backed bill that would designate 9 million acres of federal land in Utah as wilderness. "It's the best way to preserve these ancient treasures," said= SUWA attorney Heidi McIntosh. In a full-color, 32-page report released Tuesday, SUWA argues= that federal land-management agencies, notably the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), have largely failed in their fiduciary duty to keep American Indian and fossil relics safe from the encroachment of= modern civilization. Garth Portillo, lead archaeologist for the BLM in Utah, took= umbrage at the criticism, although he acknowledged his office is underfunded. "I'd be the first to admit we need more money and staff. If we= had them we could do more for historic and prehistoric resources. I don't think we're doing a bad job with the [money] we have." Of an estimated 500,000 cultural and paleontological sites on= BLM's 22 million acres in Utah, tens of thousands already have been looted= or damaged, McIntosh said. SUWA pointed to a recent memo from the BLM's Utah office that lists the top 10 funding priorities for activities that occur on BLM= =20 lands. At the top of the list was oil and gas development. Protection of=20 cultural and paleontological resources was not on the list. In particular, ancient resources have been ravaged by oil and gas development, off-highway vehicles (OHVs) and grazing -- uses that wilderness protection would prohibit or tightly regulate. Based on 18 months of research, SUWA staff member Andrew Hartsig found that the BLM often fails to adequately consult with= Indian tribes on proposals that could negatively affect federal lands. For example, the BLM failed to consult Indians about a seismic= exploration for oil and gas deposits near Dead Horse Point last year. Patty Timbimboo-Madsen, cultural manager for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Tribe, which has 431 members on a sliver of land in northern Utah, agreed that the government does not adequately consult. "We speak but we're not heard," she said. Hartsig's research also found the BLM: * Lacks adequate funding to perform "pro-active" inventories of cultural and paleontological resources. Only about 6 percent of the BLM's land has been inventoried. * Does not effectively enforce laws to protect the resources from thieves and vandals. The findings are "based on input from professional= archaeologists, paleontologists, tribal leaders and other experts." Portillo countered that, while his agency may never have enough money to protect all the land's resources, it has set the standard= for inventorying archaeological sites. In 2001, he said, the Utah office of the BLM inventoried 77,000= =20 acres of land at a "class 3" standard, which calls for each square mile of= =20 land to be walked in 15-foot intervals -- or 100 miles of walking per square= =20 mile. About 22 percent of that inventory was "pro-active," meaning it= was not in response to a proposed action. To minimize the threats to the ancient resources, SUWA recommends that Congress stiffen laws to give cultural resources more value=20 vis-=88-vis energy resources, and to provide additional funding to BLM to protect archaeological and paleontological sites. SUWA also urged Congress to adopt its wilderness proposal, which would prohibit motor vehicles and development on more than 40 percent of BLM land in Utah. Portillo agreed in theory that wilderness could solve a lot of=20 problems, but in practice, "it is not that simple." Existing rights, such as oil and gas and mining leases, would be grandfathered into the wilderness bill. And the agencies would need a new infusion of cash to erect signs and to patrol the wilderness to= =20 enforce bans on vehicles. Though SUWA is invoking archaeological protection to push for= more wilderness, only one tribe, the Hopis in northern Arizona, has= endorsed the Redrock Wilderness Act. _ Ken Venables Utah Wilderness Coalition P.O. 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