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http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/51703776-82/wilderness-tribune-editorial-areas.html.csp
First published Apr 30 2011 12:15AM
The bias and misinformation in Tribune editorials and reporting covering public land issues is truly extraordinary. For example, in the editorial “Public lands: Deal de-funds BLM inventory” (Our View, April 19) the editorial’s author made this incredible statement: “If those wilderness-quality areas are not saved from uncontrolled all-terrain-vehicle use, drilling and other energy development, the damage will be irreversible.”
Consider the San Rafael Swell, which contains numerous wilderness study areas and is slated for massive wilderness designation that requires that the land be pristine and “untrammeled by man.”
During the uranium boom of the 1950s and early ’60s, every square inch was “trammeled” by prospectors, miners, bulldozers and vehicles of every kind. Yet now, a mere 50 years later, so little remains of their work that it is deemed to qualify as “wilderness.”
If The Tribune editorial writer’s claims were accurate, there could be no wilderness at all in the San Rafael Swell. In reality, wilderness is a renewable resource being continually created by natural forces obliterating the works of man.
It does the credibility of The Tribune no good to make such incredulous statements just to further a special interest agenda.
Rainer Huck
Salt Lake City
First published Apr 30 2011 12:15AM
The bias and misinformation in Tribune editorials and reporting covering public land issues is truly extraordinary. For example, in the editorial “Public lands: Deal de-funds BLM inventory” (Our View, April 19) the editorial’s author made this incredible statement: “If those wilderness-quality areas are not saved from uncontrolled all-terrain-vehicle use, drilling and other energy development, the damage will be irreversible.”
Consider the San Rafael Swell, which contains numerous wilderness study areas and is slated for massive wilderness designation that requires that the land be pristine and “untrammeled by man.”
During the uranium boom of the 1950s and early ’60s, every square inch was “trammeled” by prospectors, miners, bulldozers and vehicles of every kind. Yet now, a mere 50 years later, so little remains of their work that it is deemed to qualify as “wilderness.”
If The Tribune editorial writer’s claims were accurate, there could be no wilderness at all in the San Rafael Swell. In reality, wilderness is a renewable resource being continually created by natural forces obliterating the works of man.
It does the credibility of The Tribune no good to make such incredulous statements just to further a special interest agenda.
Rainer Huck
Salt Lake City
