Comments about ‘Obama signs bill adding to Utah's wilderness’

Yet again Bishop and Chaffetz live up to the name. Never mind the fact that Washington County Commissioners (all Republicans) have been begging for this bill for years.

Applying a federal designation as "wilderness" changes nothing about the land. The President does not create wilderness. It only changes what can be done on the land, and in reality WHO can go on that land.

The Americans with Disabilities Act prescribes equal access to facilities. Perhaps it should also apply to Federal lands and American citizens. A Federal wilderness designation excludes the handicapped, the aged, the non-athletic. It is a form of discrimination against the majority of tax-paying American voters.

Thank you to my Representative, Mr. Chaffetz, for doing the right thing. It's been my experience that if you give an environmentalist 256,000 acres, he'll demand ten times that much.

Only in overweight Utah is walking or riding a bike considered elitism. There nothing elitist about carrying $12,000 of ATV's on a 44,000 trailer pulled behind a $40,000 truck.

Do Utahans know what bipedalism is and how bipedalism proved to set humans aside? You evolved to walk. You butt wasn't an adaptation to fit on ATV's.

You live in a state with amazing hiking. A good pair on shoes cost $40. I can walk all day on $2 of food. Your whole family can have a great day for the cost of a tank of gas. Elitism is good for your bank account.

No one as gone in debt for walking. How many took out seconds to become slaves to their F350's and ATV's?

Thank you Obama. There is great places in Utah to create a national monument. You won't risk a vote doing it.

How do you get to the places where you go hiking?

Do you walk to the trailhead in your $40 shoes or do you sit on your butt while driving to the trailhead in a F350 or similar vehicle?

how much money do you spend on plane tickets to visit an area in utah 20 times to hike what you could see in one day on an ATV? Furthermore how many hikers end up stranded and cost local government thousands of dollars to rescue them because they have no clue how vast the wilderness of southern utah can be. Every Hiker that Broke an ankle in $40 shoes was GLAD to see an ATVer that could get his butt out of the remote area he shouldn't have been in in the first place. My advice, Don't claim to know an area you have never explored more that 10 miles away from a Civilized trail head.