Comments about ‘Morgan Philpot wants to be a champion for public lands access’

Morgan Philpot would fight this battle and fight it well. Let's get Utahns back to work and fund our schools.

Okay, if Utah gets control of all the federal land in it's boundaries, is Utah truly ready to shoulder the burden to maintain and protect that land? Are the counties ready for the federal law enforcement officers, rangers, scientists, and administrators to leave and take their families and salaries with them? What are the plans to take care of the land at the state and county levels? Inquiring minds want to know. Instead of bluster, show us some actual plans. Be careful what you wish for.

With the state and counties in charge of those lands, can we expect that land to be preserved or will it just be run roughshod over by ATVs and oil rigs?

Utah is the best one able to run their own lands. Who knows best, the one who lives there or the special interest groups from back East or the Feds? That's a no-brainer. Of course Utah is best suited to manage their own lands. Don't you just love what's happened with our federally managed lands that are dead from the bark beattle or that are being burned by forest fires because we can't access the areas that are burning? What kind of management is that? That is non-management. We need Morgan Philpot to champion our lands for our use, for us to decide. The Federal Goverenment has not right to take and control our land. We must preserve Utah for Utahans.

Utah guy obviously isn't old enough to remember the days when the Forest Service and the BLM actually did their jobs and before the days that those government agencies were overrun by environmentalists who thought they had a better way. Their way is to NOT manage the lands and to let them die. Our responsibility is to take care of our lands and our resources and that is not what the government or the environmentalists are doing. I welcome the departure of those jobs and their money. Give us back the days when we managed our own lands with our own funds in our own way. We'd be much better off.

Okay Political Joe

Are you sure Utah is prepared to shoulder that burden? Who is going to foot the bill for wildfire management. Wildfires are going to burn on land in Utah. The Milford Flat fire in 2007 cost the federal government $4 million to fight and $17 million to re-seed the burned out areas. Are you sure Utah is prepared for that? That is just one example.

I worked with Senator Wallace F. Bennett in the 1960's to write a bill that would have started returning federal land to state control. It was crafted to protect the land and to take fifty years to complete. All went well until it reached President kennedy's desk. He wouldn't sign it or veto it, just ignored it. I'm all for Philpot's intentions but the Feds will fight hard to prevent any change. They have been very uncooperative in even allowing us access to our school trust lands granted under statehood.

yes its time to strip mine deforest,drill for oil that we dont have enough refineries for, and let rich people take over the great out doors so we dont have to worry about it anymore. its not a control issue its a money issue. dont trust these people any more than the federal. this state repulican means more money for me, and you can have whats left over if any

Philpot wants to open up the state's school trust lands for development?

Especially in this market, this sounds to me like at best a very short-sighted use of these potentially-very-valuable assets, and at worst a meaningless campaign gimmick.

I would like to see Morgan Philpot replace Rep. Jim Matheson.

Matheson has been sitting on the fence.

Matheson voted to change the rules so Obamacare would pass, then voted against it, and then said he wouldn’t vote to repeal it.

Vote for Morgan Philpot. You will get someone that will listen, understands you can't just keep spending our money and will try to get 2/3 of Utah back instead of keeping giving it away.