Posted on 05/05/2015 9:34:50 AM PDT by george76
Garfield County officials said Monday the Bureau of Land Management is considering even-stricter measures to protect greater sage-grouse than previously contemplated, rather than listening to concerns the county and others have raised.
As a cooperating agency, the county got an advance look Friday at the revised proposal the agency is now considering.
“It is very dramatic in terms of the changes (from a draft BLM proposal) that are being proposed,” Fred Jarman, the county’s community development director, told county commissioners Monday.
Jarman and Garfield Commissioner Tom Jankovsky said the proposed measures are the result of directives coming from Washington, D.C.
“It’s really heavy-handed government from the top,” Jankovsky said.
But Erik Molvar with WildEarth Guardians said
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The BLM and U.S. Forest Service are revising resource management plans in 11 states in an effort to try to help prevent the need for the greater sage-grouse to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service faces a Sept. 30 deadline to determine if such protection is warranted. It’s conducting a status review after a 2010 finding that the protection is warranted but precluded by higher-priority efforts involving other species.
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BLM is completely ignoring local and regional planning efforts even though it’s required to address discrepancies between them and the federal effort.
Jankovsky called Garfield County’s efforts “a waste of three years of our time.”
He said when it comes to public lands issues, it feels to him like Garfield County “is a colony of the East Coast and Washington, D.C.,” with decisions being made far away just as decisions pertaining to the American colonies once were made in London.
(Excerpt) Read more at gjsentinel.com ...
It worked out pretty well when one rancher told the BLM to pound sand. What happens if an entire state does the same?
Perhaps they feel guilty because their wind turbines kill half a million birds per year.
Watch out for Agent Dan Love and his AR.
Public Enemy No. 1 for rural Utah sheriffs just happens to be .. Dan Love, the Bureau of Land Management’s special agent in charge.
Elected law enforcement officers from Nephi to Blanding call him an arrogant and dishonest bully who has little regard for local authority and dodges accountability, derailing a collaborative approach to police work on the state’s federal lands.
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The objective is not to protect the sage grouse but is instead to keep people off their land.
It has never been about the sage grouse.
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