Date: 08/11/2009 pBRC just received an email from Mike Swenson, Executive Director of the Utah Shared Access Alliance (USA-ALL) (http://www.usa-all.com ), regarding an important meeting of the Travel and Transportation subcommittee of the Emery County Public Lands Council happening tomorrow. This meeting could have a lasting impact on access to the strongSan Rafael Swell /strongand other areas of Emery County./p pI have pasted his emails below; please take a couple of minutes to read over the information and pass it along./p pThanks,br / Ric Fosterbr / Public Lands Department Managerbr / BlueRibbon Coalitionbr / 208-237-1008 ext 107/p p style="text-align: center"embr / The BlueRibbon Coalition is a national recreation group that champions responsible recreation, and encourages individual environmental stewardship. It represents over 10,000 individual members and 1,200 organization and business members, for a combined total of over 600,000 recreationists nationwide. 1-800-258-3742. /ememhttp://www.sharetrails.org/em/p p style="text-align: center"/p pstrongUtah Shared Access Alliance/strong/p pstrongAugust 11, 2009/strong/p pstrongDear Ric,/strong/p p style="text-align: left"Do you love the San Rafael in south eastern Utah? Your access to this place could be seriously jeopardized if you don't get involved NOW. This precious area will be discussed in an upcoming meeting to determine how the public may access it in the future. You'll remember the bill that Senator Bennett ran for Washington County. This bill ended up not nearly as beneficial for our community as originally envisioned. Some have liked it others have claimed it was a "Wilderness Bill." Call it whatever you like. Emery County has decided to do something similar. The hope is that by bringing all parties to the table a compromise can be reached that allows for access and resolves the debate over wilderness. We are approaching this very cautiously. USA-ALL was intentionally left out of the Washington County bill. That will not happen with Emery County. We have been in engaged in this particular issue for many months now. But our influence only goes so far. strongIt is participation by the public that will make all the difference in the world. /strongWe encourage all to read the notice below and then take the time to participate in this meeting. At the last meeting there was a mere handful of people there. SURELY more folks care about this iconic area. Spread the word and get there. Lets show Emery County how much we care about this place./p p style="text-align: center"strongPUBLIC NOTICE/strong/p p style="text-align: center"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Travel andbr / Transportation subcommittee of the Emery County Publicbr / Lands Council will hold a public meeting to gather informationbr / from the public and industry on the current and future potentialbr / of the San Rafael Swell and other area within Emery County.br / The information will be used to develop a comprehensive landbr / use plan, including possible wilderness designation. Thebr / information will also be used to rewrite Emery County'sbr / General Plan. Public involvement in this process is encouraged.br / The public meeting will be held strongAugust 12, in the Emery Countybr / Courthouse, 75 East Main, Castle Dale, Utah at 7:00 PM./strong/p pIf you have specific questions about the public process you may call Ray Petersen, Emery County's Public Lands Director at (435) 381-5552./p pYou can also visit their website at http://www.emerycounty.com/publiclands/index.htm. br / br / Sincerely,br / /p pMichael Swensonbr / Utah Shared Access Alliance/p pHelp us by forwarding this email to friends, family, co-workers./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlueRibbonCoalition/~4/XNkSWbe0vtw" height="1" width="1"/
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