Wes
Well said.
Has Pruett been informed of this latest development? I have spoken to the
BLM and have placed a call to Bloch at SUWA to try to discover his
intentions.
Additionally, my colleagues in the media (about 300) have also been give a
heads-up about this sneaky business by SUWA. I have already heard from more
than dozen who stand ready to assist with ink and space. Rough guess on the
coverage would be more than 2 million circulation.
You might check out the SUWA web site at www.suwa.org
"LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth
LandSpeed Productions
Telling stories with words and pictures
-----Original Message-----
From: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
To: ardunbill <ardunbill@webtv.net>; John Beckett
<landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; land-speed list <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT:Possible Salt Flats Issue
>List,
>I think Save the Salt Coalition and all concerned who are on the board have
>a good relationship with the BLM and Reilly Industries (who is paying for
>the pumping) and have one of the most active legal teams to ever concern
>themselves with western lands access, damage and preservation. Another
>factor is that this is not all public lands. Reilly owns sections of the
>flats as do the Utah Schools. BLM manages it but it is not all federal
>lands.
>Even though Rick Vesco is no longer Save the Salt Chairman, former USFRA
>President Larry Volk is and we hear from both of them regularly about lands
>issues.
>There is a greater threat from the Washington crowd who want to legislate
>western lands with no input from the locals who are effected. The
>Gore/Clinton camp has been very nasty about Utah since Bill came in third
in
>the voting in the 1996 election in this state. They created the Grand
>Staircase National Park without setting foot in the state and over the
>protests of the full legislative body from Utah. Seventy percent of the
>State is tied up in "Federal Lands" administered by the BLM.
>The easiest thing for these "environmentalist" (read it as I want to play
>where no one else can) groups to point fingers at is the spills from oil,
>coolant and the black line on the salt. The racers have to help as much as
>they can to contain these things and lessen their impact on the salt.
Other
>than that they are complaining about the fuels we use but even that is so
>minimal that they have very little to complain about.
>Be ready! If there is a serious threat you will hear from us immediately.
>Wes Potter Secretary, USFRA
>
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>> From: ardunbill@webtv.net
>> To: landspeedracer@email.msn.com (John Beckett),
land-speed@autox.team.net
>
>> Subject: Re: IMPORTANT:Possible Salt Flats Issue
>> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:40:44 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>John and Group, just as sure as you're born this is just another
>>non-issue, foolish agitation from somebody about some hobgoblin. Sure,
>>there are environmental groups, sure they can hire lawyers to go
>>confront the BLM about this, that or the other. Sure, some of them are
>>fanatics and crackpots, and sure, they sometimes create a nuisance.
>>
>>The fact is, the environment has to be used by people, and, the
>>environment has to be protected in a REASONABLE fashion from more abuse
>>than it can handle. But, I am quite certain that speed trials people,
>>to most of whom the Salt Flats is a hallowed place, create no adverse
>>impact on them by running with care a few times a year, and I'm quite
>>certain the BLM feels this way about it.
>>
>>Anybody can complain about anything, and anybody can sue anybody about
>>anything, but the Law, the Courts, and Congress set great store by
>>precedent and tradition. The racers have been at Bonneville over 50
>>years, do not hurt it, and I am quite certain that politically, and
>>under the Law, this activity will be conducted there in 50 years and 100
>>years, the same as it is today.
>>
>>I see no reason for speed trials people to get all upset and ride off in
>>all directions by a little spate of agitation like this. In all
>>likelihood it will disappear without a trace like a pebble tossed into a
>>pond. Cheers from ArdunBill (who has his toe in the water of local
>>politics) in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
>>
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