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<br />Letter: Prime Farmland May Be Turned to Dry Land Due to Revision
<br />Peat Fr?cnds and Citizens of
<br />Niwla. Norwood, Naturita and
<br />I':1raf lux
<br />Wv need your help. Every day
<br />I hylrl for what is right. I fight
<br />ittr environmentalists who want
<br />,,if, kt r fish protected, prairie dogs
<br />f,rotrt ted. and all those who fight
<br />tflr heiniug industry, oilfield indus-
<br />itc, ,uul the ranchers and farmers.
<br />I* VU Al of these communities
<br />(11111 ltwvlho for the better good.
<br />thin 1•. why we need your
<br />If you read the Forum last
<br />week, you will see there is a
<br />Public Notice that Western Fuels
<br />put in the paper, very small print
<br />and very little details 7equesting
<br />a Permit Revision. This greatly
<br />affects many of you. "Phis 139 page
<br />Revision is to allow Western Fuels
<br />to return PRIME: FARMLAND,
<br />irrigated pastures and haylands.
<br />hack to DRY LAND consist-
<br />ing mostly of sagebrush. If this
<br />Revision is approved, it will allow
<br />Western Fuels to reclaim any farm
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<br />PRE-THREE
<br />I vent la lot of time watching Pre-THREE.
<br />tar otbI things people do that sepa- Never heard of' it'? I'll be
<br />the thtpi from BorderCollies and you've not only heard of it, you
<br />u?gus Bulls. In other words, how probably have talked about it in
<br />1(1 we humans differ from higher the past few months. Pre-three, or
<br />M. f111nts? to use it's longer name, Pre-three
<br />Nirder Collies. Angus Bltlls d.,-) 11:1_r ?nr galko, T ,P_eT) j-rf.
<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 indefinitely
<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, DBMS, MRCS,
<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
<br />Editorial:
<br />In Response
<br />Dear Mr. Goodtimes,
<br />In response to your recent letter to the citizens of the West End, I guess my first question would be: How
<br />stupid do you think we are?
<br />Do you actually think that we would believe that you, as the founder and as a personal member of Sheep
<br />Mountain Alliance. didn't know what the organization was going to-do if Montrose County approved the spe-
<br />cial use permit? That your fellow commissioner, Joan May, as the former director of this organization, didn't
<br />know?
<br />Do you think that those of us who attended the permit hearings missed the part where your county planner,
<br />Mike Rozycki, suggested a lawsuit during his commentary to our commissioners? Do you think we missed
<br />your editorials through the months of permit consideration. in which you accused Energy Fuels of bait and
<br />switch tactics (Scattering Doug's Ashes in Cali, July, 2009)? Do you think we missed the part of that editorial
<br />that read, "Call your local envim group and get involved. Let's not turn Western Colorado into a dumping
<br />grounds for other states' radioactive wastes"
<br />Did you forget that you wrote that or were you just hoping we would?
<br />How about your editorial entitled "Open Letter to Naturital Nucla," published in September, in which you
<br />stated, "Montrose County is actively seeking a 1000-year stigma as a radioactive wasteland, after even Nevada
<br />rejected that status" or, a few lines later, where you state, "Take the fact that the environmental assessment for
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