Sutey Facts, the public loses.

03/13/2024

Ya gotta start somewhere. Trailerhouse, 1988, Woody Creek, Colorado.

12/16/2014

Let's keep this page as a compilation of facts and focused opinion against the Sutey exchange. Personal attacks and bashing those people wealthier than yourself isn't appropriate for this venue.

10/30/2013

Black Diamond CEo talks about the value of public lands:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/57057099-82/utah-lands-parks-national.html.csp?fb_action_ids=10202271504728325&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210202271504728325%22%3A228200537341745%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210202271504728325%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

If we learn any lesson from this debacle of a government shutdown, I hope it’s that national parks and other public lands are of greater daily benefit to Utahns than the rhetoric of the state Legislature’s sagebrush rebels and our own members of Congress would ever acknowledge. At Black Diamond, we’...

09/03/2013

BLM is currently reviewing the EA and will then make a decision, still waiting.

In the mean time, Kristof pretty mush nails it with the first line:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opinion/sunday/kristof-beauty-and-the-beasts.html?_r=0

America’s public lands are spectacular, free and horrendously neglected. Maybe members of Congress should hike the Pacific Crest Trail to see for themselves.

03/19/2013

"In Colorado, 98 percent of respondents agreed that the economy benefited from public lands."

But Paul Ryan wants to sell...And it really makes you wonder why there is any support for the Wexner LEX at all. Things that make you go "Hmmmm".

http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20130318/NEWS/130319863/1077&ParentProfile=1058

03/19/2013

Wexner expands proposal, attempts to buy Mount Sopris. Is that possible? See what famed Wilderness advocate Paul Andersen has to say about the matter. http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20130318/COLUMN/130319873/1021&parentprofile=1061

Why should Les Wexner stop at Prince Creek Divide in his quest for a lordly estate? Mount Sopris, the crown jewel of the Elk Range, is more in keepi (read more)

03/02/2013

One of the myths perpetrated by Wexner land exchange advocates is that access to the proposed BLM exchange land is difficult. In reality, a well used trail exists that is a beautiful public amenity, and a network of trails and roads exists on the actual exchange land. Two private citizens tried to make that known, and the USFS took them to court due to the complaint of a NIMBY land owner who is actually one of the people using the trails. Wonderful news, the case has been dismissed! http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20130302/NEWS/130309984/1077&ParentProfile=1058

GRAND JUNCTION — A federal judge on Friday dismissed charges against two Pitkin County Open Space and Trails board members who were cited last (read more)

10/17/2012

Bill Koch LEX; not quite the "good neighbor" he makes himself out to be, kidnapping in the Raggeds!

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/koch_case_files_gSVmquMbMTxBjO7UO8ckiM

Billionaire industrialist Bill Koch is embroiled in a bizarre legal battle with a former executive who claims the coal-mining magnate held him captive and interrogated him for hours as part of a wild...

09/30/2012

Another land grab from a man who can just over the hill. The Wexner LEX is not isolated, it's an insidious trend all over the west, just say no.

The industrialist Bill Koch’s effort to acquire some public land is setting off a debate about private property and public access, privilege and tradition.

09/28/2012

The Wexner land grab is not an isolated incident, it's happening all over the west.

It takes a truly small-minded politician to upset the balance of our public lands.

07/16/2012

Keep commenting to the BLM! Even though the scoping comment period for the Environmental Assessment is closed, the BLM is required to consider any comments up until the EA is complete. So, send comments, specifically on why you think this exchange is or isn't in the public interest and what you would like the agency to address in the EA. You can send comments via e-mail to [email protected].

I just signed a petition to Steve Bennet, Regional director BLM and George Newman, Chairman Pitkin County Comissioners: Stop the Sutey/ Two Shoes/ Sopris Land Exchange.

07/14/2012

Learn more about BLM land management. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/state-alaska-blames-feds-unplugged-arctic-oil-wells

Conservationists, take note: Fragile Arctic tundra is littered with rusting oil drums, corroding pipes that poke from brackish pools of water, and unplugged wells that spew gas into the atmosphere.