One thing I don't see noted in most assessments of Lee's proposal is the potential of land locking access to other public lands. I'm the owner of a guide service in Kanab Utah and we see this in a few places where public land we would like to access is inaccessible because it is surrounded by private land and therefore"land locked". I would think this proposal would increase the potential for this.
We were just reminiscing yesterday about running around Durango with a passel of kids. Most of the time we didn’t know or care who was who, whose parents did what or who lived where. We just biked to Junction Creek and built forts or resurrected old inner tubes for floating the Animas. Open spaces for a passel of kids to explore is what fosters creativity, resilience and community. We must protect that for all of us but especially kids.
I'd like to see more analysis of where the disposal checkerboard lands and remote hard to manage lands fits into this bill. One, they don't appear to meet the 5 mile requirement, etc. rules for development and thus appear subject to private acquisition with no governing rules. I would guess checkerboards will fill in rich ranchers lands and remote lands will become hunting enclaves.
Oil by truck/train: If that load out expansion is used at capacity, it looks like 30,000 bbl/day at 600 bbl/tank car is 500 more rail cars or one almost mile long train. I'm not sure what the capacity of the current load outs are, but a lot of folks don't realize that a bunch of that Uinta waxy crude ("shoe polish") is already moving along the Colorado River line, UBRR or not. Personally, I don't worry about derailments; the stats are over-blown because they include every time a wheel goes off the track in a yard. I worry about when we burn the stuff in our cars. Back to Aridification Meter.
One thing I don't see noted in most assessments of Lee's proposal is the potential of land locking access to other public lands. I'm the owner of a guide service in Kanab Utah and we see this in a few places where public land we would like to access is inaccessible because it is surrounded by private land and therefore"land locked". I would think this proposal would increase the potential for this.
We were just reminiscing yesterday about running around Durango with a passel of kids. Most of the time we didn’t know or care who was who, whose parents did what or who lived where. We just biked to Junction Creek and built forts or resurrected old inner tubes for floating the Animas. Open spaces for a passel of kids to explore is what fosters creativity, resilience and community. We must protect that for all of us but especially kids.
Lack of water may stymie a lot of this BS
The new SCOTUS decision limiting federal injunctions is very bad news
I'd like to see more analysis of where the disposal checkerboard lands and remote hard to manage lands fits into this bill. One, they don't appear to meet the 5 mile requirement, etc. rules for development and thus appear subject to private acquisition with no governing rules. I would guess checkerboards will fill in rich ranchers lands and remote lands will become hunting enclaves.
Aridification Meter from here is the NW side of Mt Sopris, which is almost bare about three weeks early.
Irrigation curtailment: One way of "coping" a bit in some places might be - https://theconversation.com/solar-panels-shade-helps-boost-colorado-grassland-productivity-in-dry-years-257082
Oil by truck/train: If that load out expansion is used at capacity, it looks like 30,000 bbl/day at 600 bbl/tank car is 500 more rail cars or one almost mile long train. I'm not sure what the capacity of the current load outs are, but a lot of folks don't realize that a bunch of that Uinta waxy crude ("shoe polish") is already moving along the Colorado River line, UBRR or not. Personally, I don't worry about derailments; the stats are over-blown because they include every time a wheel goes off the track in a yard. I worry about when we burn the stuff in our cars. Back to Aridification Meter.