Arizona BLM Land Alert

[daboone]

Under a March 2015 federal court order, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is required to reanalyze the impacts of recreational target shooting in the 486,400-acre Sonoran Desert National Monument (SDNM). This reanalysis will determine whether and to what extent recreational shooting will be allowed in the SDNM in the future.
Three public meetings have been scheduled:

Feb. 24: 5:30-9:30 p.m., Arizona Game and Fish Department, 5000 W. Carefree Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85086
Feb. 25: 4-8 p.m., Gila Bend Community Center, 202 N. Euclid Ave., Gila Bend, AZ 85337
Feb. 26: 4-8 p.m., Estrella Mountain Regional Park, 14805 W. Vineyard Ave., Goodyear, AZ 85338

It is of utmost importance that NRA members who cherish their freedom to target shoot on federal public lands attend at least one of the public meetings listed above and submit comments to the BLM at the address below. The NRA will be submitting comments to the BLM later this month and will post those comments in another alert.

You can be certain that those who have been fighting to close the SDNM to target shooting and who are responsible for the lawsuit that lead to the court ruling last year will be attending the meetings and submitting comments. Please don’t let their voices be the ones that the BLM hears.

Mail comments to the BLM's project manager, Wayne Monger, at 21605 N. 7th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85027, or fax to (623) 580-5623, or e-mail to [email protected].

 

[hso]

This is the source cite - https://www.nraila.org/articles/201...oting-in-the-sonoran-desert-national-monument

 

[Yo Mama]

We kinda asked for it, I hate to see the litter and garbage left by people who don't clean up after themselves. Everywhere that's popular to shoot is trashed. We have ran into more than a few stolen and dumped cars that were riddled. You try to clean up others trash, but it's so much.

Something even like tons of shotgun hulls left after bird hunting is enough to shut an area down, so we need to be so mindful how we leave an area.

I'll be at the meeting on the 24th for sure

 

[daboone]

See you there!
Your right about the trash. I aways haul a trash bag away of other people's crap. Sad that both the RV folks and the shooter don't understand what the consequences are.

 

[hso]

What the real fatal issue for us is the defacement of the archaeological sites, not trash. We could deal with trash, but when some moron damages a thousand year old petroglyph there's no cleanup that will fix the problem. Every time that occurs it is like knocking blocks out of the foundation of a narrow tower since it doesn't take too many instances to destroy any chance of letting anyone with a firearm near them.

 

[danez71]

I don't want to derail the thread... just trying to highlight the importance of it.


CA just lost access to another 1.8 million acre of Fed BLM land.

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-monuments-20160212-story.html

Unable to gain momentum on her California Desert Conservation and Recreation Act last year, Feinstein and conservation groups asked Obama to act unilaterally to create the three monuments overlapping biological zones between roughly Palm Springs and the Nevada border.

....and Obama just granted their wish under a fairly obscure rule made in the early 1900s.



Don't stop at attending he meetings.

Get involved.... organize clean ups... do what you can.

 

[87jeep]

They are also gating the enters to the Sawtooth Mts south of Casa Grande. The north and mid(entry to Silver Belle) are closed. Most of the land was grabbed by Clinton as the Ironwood Forest N M