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2- San Miguel Basin Forum, Thursday, December 10, 2009 <br />Letter: Prime Farmland May Be "turned to Dry Land Due to Revision <br />Dear Friends and Citizens of <br />Nucla, Norwood, Naturita and <br />Paradox: <br />We need your help. Every day <br />I fight for what is right. I fight <br />the environmentalists who want <br />sucker fish protected, prairie dogs <br />protected, and all those who fight <br />the mining industry, oilfield indus- <br />try, and the ranchers and farmers. <br />I've seen all of these communities <br />pull together for the better good. <br />. That is why we need your <br />help now. <br />If you read the Forum last <br />week, you will see there is a <br />1Public Notice that Western Fuels <br />!put in the paper, very small print <br />and very little details requesting <br />a Permit Revision. This greatly <br />affects many of you. This 139 page <br />Revision is to allow Western Fuels <br />to return PRIME FARMLAND, <br />irrigated pastures and haylands, <br />back to DRY LAND consist- <br />mg mostly of sagebrush. If this <br />Revision is approved, it will allow <br />Western Fuels to reclaim any farm <br />ground, any lands that they do, <br />back into dry land (reference area <br />to match the area next to the air- <br />port). This means our place, right <br />now. Our beautiful farm, even <br />though the contracts were signed <br />in 1998. Western Fuels wants to <br />put the Sunshine place back to dry <br />land, sagebrush. For 20 years we <br />will have to do without produc- <br />tion. <br />This means NO Irrigation, <br />NO fertilizing, NO grazing, just <br />sagebrush and shrubs. This greatly <br />affects us. Most of you remember <br />the Sunshine Corner of Morgan's <br />Ranch just west of 27 Road. This <br />piece of property they want to <br />put back in dry land, sagebrush. <br />This will remain a minimum of <br />10 years and possibly indefmitely <br />depending on Bond Release and <br />then after bond release, if that <br />can ever be accomplished, the <br />Farmer (Mr. Morgan) can put his <br />own property back into the alfalfa <br />fields or crops they were in before <br />it was mined. <br />This will affect Bensons, <br />Lloyds, Johnsons and Richards as <br />well as Garveys and many more. <br />Most of you remember the <br />beautiful alfalfa and corn fields <br />and it was known as one of the <br />most beautiful farms in the coun- <br />try. Western Fuels, DRMS, NRCS, <br />have all documented this to be the <br />only property that is totally Prime <br />,Farm Land, the only irrigated Crop <br />Continued on Page 4