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http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3415915 said:Mother of land grabs
Heidi McIntosh's Forum letter (“Blatant land grab,” Jan. 9) is the epitome of the sanctimonious hypocrisy typical of the environmentalist movement.
She castigates Kane County for negotiating “behind closed doors” with the Bureau of Land Management about RS 2477 rights of way and counsels us that, “secrecy leads to error and violates the public trust.”
Perhaps her memory is conveniently short, but the rest of us haven't forgotten the mother of all blatant land grabs when Heidi's organization engineered the creation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This 1.9 million-acre confiscation of public land consumed about 1,000 times as much ground as the meager rights of way owned by Kane County. And talk about secrecy and closed doors, not even our governor or members of Congress
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knew anything at all about it until just hours before the presidential ceremony on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
As ABC newsman John Stossel would no doubt exclaim: Heidi, give us a break!
Rainer Huck
President, Utah Shared Access Alliance
Salt Lake City