American Lands Council led the charge in rallying state and county officials, concerned citizens and leaders of various organizations to the Tombstone Shovel Brigade in support of Tombstone's right and obligation to protect the health, safety and welfare of its citizens in the face of arbitrary and irrational federal policy that is blocking Tombstone from restoring and securing access to the mountain springs and its access road they have been using continuously for 130-years until the USFS began shutting them out last summer.
(CNN) American Lands Council President, “Ken Ivory, a state representative from Utah,
who won passage of legislation that seeks to turn over federal land to his
state . . . says the conflict playing out in Tombstone is an example of the
Forest Service dictating to, rather than working with, local government
officials. He says the feds suddenly cut off Tombstone's access to springs and
roads the city has maintained for 130 years under ‘an arbitrary and irrational
federal policy.
As a result, Ivory said, Tombstone ‘is minutes away
from going up in smoke’ because it is ‘a wooden town in the middle of the desert
in the middle of a drought.’
At the center of the debate is the Mexican spotted
owl.
‘What is more important, owls or the people of
Tombstone?’ James Upchurch, a Forest Service supervisor who oversees the
wilderness, was asked in court earlier this year.
Upchurch responded that there was no easy answer,
which left jaws dropping on Tombstone's side of the courtroom.
Tombstone tells a compelling story, portraying the
Forest Service as a rogue agency of obstructionist, tree-hugging bureaucrats.
The Forest Service had offered little comment, and when it did say something,
it sounded to the people of Tombstone, well, tree-hugging and bureaucratic.
And so, under an unforgiving desert sun, about 100 people -- including Old West cowboy types with monikers such as "Whiskers" and "Cowboy Doug" -- gathered at Tombstone's old high school football field Friday for the first day of an event that was billed as part protest and part work party." (Read more . . .).
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And so, under an unforgiving desert sun, about 100 people -- including Old West cowboy types with monikers such as "Whiskers" and "Cowboy Doug" -- gathered at Tombstone's old high school football field Friday for the first day of an event that was billed as part protest and part work party." (Read more . . .).
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