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Posted on 02/25/2011 5:08:40 PM PST by IYAS9YAS
SOUTHERN NEW MEXICANS TO RALLY TO KEEP GILA ROADS OPEN
Congressman Steve Pearce Expected to Attend, Along With Hundreds of New Mexicans
Las Cruces, NM (February 25, 2011) Hundreds of New Mexicans are expected to rally in Silver City on Saturday, March 5th against the U.S. Forest Service’s plans to close access roads inside the Gila Forest. The rally will take place starting at noon at the Silver City Convention Center.
“This is the time to come together and say, ‘enough is enough’”, Congressman Steve Pearce told about 100 residents of Truth or Consequences Thursday night. “It is time for the Forest Service to keep those roads open to the public. This is about an attempt to take away another of our freedoms as Americans.”
The meeting in Truth or Consequences Thursday night was organized by the new group, “Keep Our Forest Open.” It was created by individuals that have voiced frustration over the Forest Service’s proposed Travel Management Plan, which calls for thousands of miles of roads inside the Gila to be closed.
“Can we count on you to be at the rally March 5th in Silver City?” Reverend Mike Skidmore asked at the meeting. Nearly every hand was raised. “We’re just regular people leading everyday lives, but it’s time for folks like us to rise up and let our voice be heard,” said Skidmore. “We are against the Forest Service taking away our access, and we need to let them know it.”
Congressman Pearce is expected to be one of several speakers at the rally in Silver City. The “Keep Our Forest Open” organization said it is working with other organizations that use the forest, including ATV users, hunting and gun clubs, Tea Party activists, and other concerned citizens. All are planning to rally March 5th in Silver City, just two days before the deadline set by the Forest Service for public comments to be made on the issue.
“I see everyday people getting energized and motivated to get involved when their freedoms are being threatened such as with the proposed road closures,” Pearce said. “It is amazing what can happen when citizens want freedom. These organizations in New Mexico are gathering momentum, and I anticipate the Forest Service will hear the voices of freedom at the March 5th rally.”
Attention NM Freepers!
“I anticipate the Forest Service will hear the voices of freedom at the March 5th rally.”
Everyone here should know that libtards are deaf.
If this ruling had been in effect several years ago, a much larger acreage on the NW side of the forest -- and maybe a few towns -- would've been lost to the flames.
There are even national forest personnel who resist these rulings because of their adverse impact on fire-fighting.
The U.S. Forest Service is incompetent to manage the forests they have been given responsibility for.
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Will the folks attending the rally be passing a hat for the maintenance of the roads? Is closing the roads part of budget cutting? Why are the feds paying for this road that locals seem most interested in?
To keep the marajuania fields operating for the meixcan cartel?
The roads were closed by regulations when they shouldhave been closed by Congress. Just as the EPA is closing coal mines.
It is another of Obama’s takeover by regulation , Its for the Greenies and you cry about fixing the roads.
Weare being dictated to by Obama. stop moaning about paying for a few roads.
I live in SC and don’t want to pay for roads in New Mexico so locals can run around on ATVs or shoot varmits. If Congress isn’t closing these roads they should be. My state and community should be maintaining my roads in my region and New Mexico should be handling New Mexico. It’s certainly not Obama’s intent, but anytime the Feds cut something out, we win.
Because the roads provide access for fire-fighting. And, in small fires, serve as effective fire breaks.
The roads are already there. The Forestry Service proposes to close them. Which has absolutely zilch to do with budget-cutting -- only with blocking access and serving the enviro-whackos' purpose.
If you believe otherwise, you are grossly misinformed.
Fantastic. You can think of a good reason to keep these roads open, great, dip into your wallet and buy them from the feds. They’s be glad to give up the maintenance and headaches.
This isn’t about maintaining roads, this is about restricting access to public land by the Forest service. Clinton pulled this crap when he was in office, now Obama is doing the same. This is done to apease the the tree hugger crowd. I realize you guys on the East Coast don’t have the huge swaths of federal land that we do out west, and you really don’t have all the info on the crazy things the govt tries to pull.
Great idea. Then, let's buy the National Forests, too.
Failing that, the federal government remains responsible for fire-fighting and allowing access.
I would bet there are some federal parks in SC that could be closed.
but you are entitled to your opinion.
And I’m in favor of closing them as well. There’s lot to see and preserve in SC and I think we here in SC should do it. I pay for mine, you pay for yours.
IF the locals want to close access to “federal” parkland, then ,fine, close it.
It’s when the feds miles from NM or SC decide to close areas without local consent that freedom is snatched away.
Look at how the feds are destroying central CA to save a damn fish!
I lived in SC for a while. There aren’t that many roads in the forest there to begin with. This is part of the ongoing policy of the FedGov to close off Federal lands to access.
There should not be a federal road or park. You take it over and maintain it.
You're entitled to your opinion. Indeed, I share it.
But, unfortunately, that doesn't cut any ice right now.
You’re right, the individual states should take over the land and take care of it.
But the Fed’s will have none of that!
Nationwide the Fed’s have gone crazy the last couple of years closing public land to public access... and it has very little to do with anything but control. They still allow loggers to open those roads up to log, but you sure can’t go in there to recreate in any form but walking.
I’ve been in National Forests in about 20-30 states in the last two years... and everywhere the Fed’s have gone crazy.
If they even bother to hold the required public hearings, they just ignore the public anyway. They have an agenda, and to hell with the public! They are going to do what they want to do....
In Idaho this past summer I wanted to travel this nice gravel road over the mountains to Montana... but the Fed’s closed it 2 years ago to ‘improve the bear habitat’! That road was still listed on the National Forest maps for the area, and they hadn’t gotten around to publish the REQUIRED MVUM (motorized vehicle usage maps) for that area... even though they were required to do so by a 2006 lawsuit. They claimed they didn’t have the funds to publish the maps, but they did have the funds to close the road... sheesh!
So while I understand that you don’t want to pay to maintain roads in another state, the people in that other state are NOT being afforded the opportunity to take over that road themselves.
And we all are being required to pay to maintain roads in other states... mostly by federal gas taxes, but also with general taxes. For example, the Interstate highway system - which was built by the Feds to be military roads - and they being ‘military’ roads is how they imposed them on the states.
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