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Utah national parks to open Saturday with state aid

Thats fine with me, so whats your problem? Don't you want the oil drilling, fracking and strip mining near your house?

So you admit you want all the resources that the industries you want to put out of business provide, doesn't that seem a bit odd to you? Don't you feel like a complete hypocrite?? As for me I log right in my back yard and I only wish I had an oil well there too. :lol:
 
You know the area well Sawyer..
Should Idaho potato farmers own the water rights to Jackson Lake in Grand Teton Wyoming..
Is the water still flowing to them..
Do you know the story of tree disaster after they built Jackson Dam in Coulter Bay.
So you admit you want all the resources that the industries you want to put out of business provide, doesn't that seem a bit odd to you? Don't you feel like a complete hypocrite?? As for me I log right in my back yard and I only wish I had an oil well there too. :lol:
 
You know the area well Sawyer..
Should Idaho potato farmers own the water rights to Jackson Lake in Grand Teton Wyoming..
Is the water still flowing to them..
Do you know the story of tree disaster after they built Jackson Dam in Coulter Bay.

I'm in north Idaho, timber not taters and I know nothing about their issues.
 
20 years or so after the Idaho potato farmers built the Jackson Dam, there was a massive die-off of trees in the National Park and Forest that were submerged..
I found a whole ****load of them when I was hiking around Coulter Bay, another incredible place in this Nation.
I'm in north Idaho, timber not taters and I know nothing about their issues.
 
20 years or so after the Idaho potato farmers built the Jackson Dam, there was a massive die-off of trees in the National Park and Forest that were submerged..
I found a whole ****load of them when I was hiking around Coulter Bay, another incredible place in this Nation.

I'm not a big fan of dams. They disrupt the natural order of things.
 
So you admit you want all the resources that the industries you want to put out of business provide, doesn't that seem a bit odd to you? Don't you feel like a complete hypocrite?? As for me I log right in my back yard and I only wish I had an oil well there too. :lol:

I admit nothing of the sort. I'm fine with industry as long as its responsible.
 
Here's one for dams..
The only dam on the Green River is the Flaming Gorge..
The National Rec Area up there with Ashley Natl Forest is awesome..
We followed the Green River back to its origin once in Wyoming--incredible.
I'm not a big fan of dams. They disrupt the natural order of things.
 
I admit nothing of the sort. I'm fine with industry as long as its responsible.

You won't answer the question of how far you are OK with these industries from the borders of national parks other than to say clear to my house by the Canadian border. You don't seem fine with them at all.
 
Here's one for dams..
The only dam on the Green River is the Flaming Gorge..
The National Rec Area up there with Ashley Natl Forest is awesome..
We followed the Green River back to its origin once in Wyoming--incredible.

So are you saying that area is awesome because the dam is there?
 
Yes I am..Nearly 500-feet above the ground and more as you float the 9-miles..You'd love it, plus the drives in and out..
Great fishing and boating behind it, with all that energy stuff and water-management..
Utah does an incredible job with its resources..
So are you saying that area is awesome because the dam is there?
 
Yes I am..Nearly 500-feet above the ground and more as you float the 9-miles..You'd love it, plus the drives in and out..
Great fishing and boating behind it, with all that energy stuff and water-management..
Utah does an incredible job with its resources..

Maybe you should have seen it before the damn was there.
 
Next time through I'll check on it..
From Illinois to the Cascades, Utah and Colorado just happen to be in the way..
Or the Idaho/Montana/Wyoming routes.
Maybe you should have seen it before the damn was there.
 
Next time through I'll check on it..
From Illinois to the Cascades, Utah and Colorado just happen to be in the way..
Or the Idaho/Montana/Wyoming routes.

What I'm saying is if you have not seen that country before the damn dam you have nothing to compare it to.
 
They have old pictures..
Just like with the Jackson Dam I saw, an ugly earthen thing..
In fact, I'll check on line later when it gets slow..
I'm restless now for the West..It's been since July since we were in Rocky Mtn NP.
What I'm saying is if you have not seen that country before the damn dam you have nothing to compare it to.
 
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