I know, sometimes it is hard to keep fighting. We made it through James Watt and the RayGun revolution with the land and country still more or less intact-although it was hard sometimes. Every new administration comes roaring in like gang busters and soon find out that doing is not the same saying. The government is designed to slow things down. You have to have a plan in the system to do anything and the land management agencies especially, have lot's of rules, regs and lot's of hoops to jump through to do anything that disturbs the land. The secret of public land management is the planning system. That's one of the reasons for this thread, we the people still have a say in what happens out there and despite the best efforts of the Kock brothers, certain Bundy type ranchers, some local pols and the Sage Brush Rebellion types,that even they and this congress can not void all the laws (we hope) and take away our use of the public land. Even in Utah, we hope.
From what i hear, this resistance movement going on out there is in many places not just for social things and politics but in some places includes public land users of all types and those that provide the food, support and things that go with using the land, whether for ranching, recreating and yes, oil and gas, and trees too. It is public land and is supposed to multi-use and we need to make our voices heard in every public land planning meeting to make sure it remains open to us. If all else fails is there room around your stove?
Smoke