SAWS members:
A Montana SAWS member sent information and his comment about the US Congressional hearing on H.R. 2016. (The National Landscape Conservation System Act). Following is information about the resolution and links to look into this further if you choose before sending your concerns to Rep. Rehberg about this.
The full house is scheduled to vote on the resolution on this Wednesday, April 9th.
Please contact your congressman regarding this April 9th vote in US Congress.
To e-mail, phone or fax REP. Denny Rehberg: Use the following contact information.
Congressman Dennis Rehberg
Phone: 202-225-3211
Fax: 202-225-5687
Website: http://www.house.gov/rehberg/contact.shtml
The following information is from one of the national websites providing information on governement actions.
This "dissenting" view was not prepared by SAWS-click on the link provided for the entire opposing view which summarized why this resolution will not be good for recreational opportunites including snowmobiling.
DISSENTING VIEWS ON H.R. 2016
We strongly oppose H.R. 2016. The true purpose of H.R. 2016 is to prevent many locally popular, wholesome family recreational opportunities and almost all economic activities from taking place on 26 million acres of BLM land. H.R. 2016 will create a two-tiered system within the BLM under which some BLM land can be carefully managed for multiple use while other vast tracts would be walled off from almost all human use and managed for `preservation' or in layman's terms, no use. While well- meaning, few supporters of this bill live in the areas most affected by the legislation and fewer still ever truly get know first hand the rural communities of farmers, ranchers, and others whose ability to provide for their families can be devastated by decisions we so cavalierly make from afar. More that one third of the land in the United States is federally managed, but in much of the West, that ratio is reversed and doubled.
A Montana SAWS member sent information and his comment about the US Congressional hearing on H.R. 2016. (The National Landscape Conservation System Act). Following is information about the resolution and links to look into this further if you choose before sending your concerns to Rep. Rehberg about this.
The full house is scheduled to vote on the resolution on this Wednesday, April 9th.
Please contact your congressman regarding this April 9th vote in US Congress.
To e-mail, phone or fax REP. Denny Rehberg: Use the following contact information.
Congressman Dennis Rehberg
Phone: 202-225-3211
Fax: 202-225-5687
Website: http://www.house.gov/rehberg/contact.shtml
The following information is from one of the national websites providing information on governement actions.
This "dissenting" view was not prepared by SAWS-click on the link provided for the entire opposing view which summarized why this resolution will not be good for recreational opportunites including snowmobiling.
DISSENTING VIEWS ON H.R. 2016
We strongly oppose H.R. 2016. The true purpose of H.R. 2016 is to prevent many locally popular, wholesome family recreational opportunities and almost all economic activities from taking place on 26 million acres of BLM land. H.R. 2016 will create a two-tiered system within the BLM under which some BLM land can be carefully managed for multiple use while other vast tracts would be walled off from almost all human use and managed for `preservation' or in layman's terms, no use. While well- meaning, few supporters of this bill live in the areas most affected by the legislation and fewer still ever truly get know first hand the rural communities of farmers, ranchers, and others whose ability to provide for their families can be devastated by decisions we so cavalierly make from afar. More that one third of the land in the United States is federally managed, but in much of the West, that ratio is reversed and doubled.
