Comments about ‘New BLM director sees positive future for Utah land issues’

I sincerly hope this new director can rise above the crowd and manage BLM Lands for All people's use and not punish or bow to any one group. The lands owned by the US Government belong to all people and must be managed for all people.
Congratulations on a new and tough job. I wish you the best of luck.

Mr. Palma would be a far greater success in this role if the "concept of public lands" were still foreign to him. There is no such thing as public lands. How can everybody's desire for their share of all the public land be satisfied? It can't. It's utter nonsense.

Mr. Palma's efforts will result in no less "uncertainty". There can be no certainty in public property.

"Perhaps there is a better way" posits Palma. Yes, there is and it's simple as can be. Let there be no public land. Let it all be private. Put it up for sale, or up for grabs to the most productive and eager minds (shades of 19th Century Oklahoma?). Let liberty and freedom have a try in the domain of property (shades of 18th Century Colonial America?) and we'll see that none of us will "get tired of the rhetoric and things not moving forward." Instead we'll all benefit from the access and use granted by wilderness-loving owners as well as the goods harvested from the land by production-loving owners who will make an honest profit or enjoy some honest privacy.

Why should we trust anyone who is an Obama appointee?

He may be a fine man and a great land manager. Or, he might be another political hack bent on tearing apart the foundations of our country, as so many of Obama's appointees are doing.

Watch him closely.

@Mithrandir|5:41 p.m.Aug.7,2010
Mr. Palma would be a far greater success in this role if the "concept of public lands" were still foreign to him. There is no such thing as public lands. How can everybody's desire for their share of all the public land be satisfied? It can't. It's utter nonsense.....
...."Perhaps there is a better way" posits Palma. Yes, there is and it's simple as can be. Let there be no public land. Let it all be private. Put it up for sale, or up for grabs to the most productive and eager minds.....

You & I don't agree! (1)The rigt-of-way problem to get to many individual small tracts would be a big problem,(2)It won't be you and I who buy them, based on other places it will be large corporations,(3)Invest in NO Tresspassing signs, they will be all over.

Not enough words to tell the details but a study was done in Utah for one county involving County Assessor etc.,which concluded taxes would have to be raised a lot just to provide services like now provided by local government.

When you see BLM Land, You can be sure the State of Utah has the Idea that Utah owns it.
We need to remind the State it is Public Land, Not State Land.

Raise the grazing fees for livestock to match the real cost. Make it comparable to what private landowners have to pay for their grazing land. It is time the Western welfare ranchers paid full fare for their animals.

Ken Salazar and BLM Director Bob Abbey have brought a constructive, balanced approach to land management. I wish Mr. Palma well in doing the same with public lands in Utah. They are a national treasure.

Actually Larry, it was Utah land first. The Feds took it away and made it "public land."

The article says "The BLM, in so many words, has the mandate to be in the middle of the fight, to be the simultaneous whipping boy for environmentalists who argue for wilderness protection and want to restrict use and for those who want "access" to the lands and want to drill, ride ATVs and graze cattle"

Yes land management is difficult because the many interests and demands. BLM is charged with "multiple-use" management but some people think that means every use on every acre. Timber harvest doesn't work so well where the are no trees, cows don't do well in thick stands of evergreens. Some think just because he/she has hunted deer qualifies them as a wildlife biologist. NOT SO!

We need to manage both for the present & the future.

@Ett-You show your lack of knowledge. Go read history on Utah statehood and admittance to union. Read other states as well. Using your logic, maybe we should have it as part of Mexico or the Indian nations.

The challange that I see,depends a lot on us and our willingness to work together with BLM, Congress & people throughout the USA.

Best regards to Mr.Palma!