Federal Land In Utah. You Like To Hunt Or Fish? You Better Be Gald You Have It

Read the two opinion pieces in this morning's SLC Tribune.  And having grown up here, and enjoying the public land I could always access to hunt and fish.  I appreciate it.  I could drive out to Stansbury Island and shoot all my guns, or hunt rabbits.  Any time I wanted, and I didn't need someones permission.  Or a membership in a, "Rod And Gun Club" to use the land.

Go back east to West Virginia and try to just walk into the woods and hunt or fish.  You can't do it.  It's all private land.  According to my friend, EJ, Colorado is almost as bad as that.  I have to defer to his judgement, I've never tried to hunt or fish there, but he has.

And this whole, "Sovereignty" bullshit argument, about being able to decide where and when we can drill for oil and make more money for the Public Schools?  Total crap.  It's about getting more money to be channeled into, Mormon, "Charter" schools that take public money from public education.

And when Exxon/Mobile owns the entire Uinta Basin, and the San Rafael Swell?  You think you will be allowed on it to hunt?  Or camp.  Or fish.  Or even sight see?  Not only no, but, "FUCK NO!"  You might shoot an oil well.  Or even worse, get hurt!  Then you could sue them!

You can't sue the Federal Government for falling off a cliff in a National Park.  But you could sue, Halliburton for failure to keep you safe on their drilling site.  So trust me, your ass will NOT be allowed on any land that Utah would take from the Fed's, then sell to an oil company.

This whole idea is stupid from the word, "go".

Right now, we in Utah have so much national forest, public land, National Parks, that we are one of the top tourist destinations in the whole country.  And we don't have to pay for it, Police it, manage it, because the Federal Government DOES!  Yet, we get to enjoy it!  Virtually free!

You give the Legislature, the, "Rightcouslature" in Utah the deed to our public lands?  Oh, you can kiss it good bye.  It will all be sold to, Sinclair in a heart beat.  You want to fish at Mirror Lake?  Take out a mortgage.  You want to shoot deer around Kamas?  Pay the man who just BOUGHT it from the Legislature.

Look, right wing, Republicans.  I KNOW you're a little slow on the uptake.  You WORK for a living, and still vote for millionaires who want to screw you, and keep telling you Unions are evil.  So you're not bright.  But this idea is so wacko.  Seriously, do you want to pay a fee every time you go camping out in Tooele County to ride your ATV?  Even when there is NOT a pit toilet, or any improvements where you park your, "Toy Hauler"?  Because when this land is sold off?  You will.

Catch a clue folks.

If you love the outdoors?  If you hunt and fish?  If you love to camp and hike?  You DO NOT want the Utah Legislature to take back Federal Lands in this state.  Because they will sell it out from under you.  And you won't get to get on it anymore.

Witness the, Stream Access act they passed last year.  Think about it.