Spectacular Trappers Lake and the surrounding Flat Tops Wilderness Area are recognized as the “Cradle of Wilderness” after inspiring U.S. Forest Service employee Arthur Carhart to use the area as an example of public land that should be preserved for all to enjoy.(Scott Willoughby, The Denver Post)
Re: “Sportsmen stake their claim on public lands,” Feb. 25 Outdoors story.
As a conservative conservationist, I oppose a takeover of federal public lands. These taxpayer- and citizen-owned public lands belong to all citizens. The attempt by special interests to take these lands, under the guise of state “management,” may represent the largest special-interest, big-money land grab since the days of the robber barons in the late 19th century.
And the land grab attempt is definitely not conservative. None other than President Ronald Reagan once remarked: “What is a conservative after all but one who conserves — our countryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and meadows and forests. This is our patrimony. This is what we leave to our children.”
Steve Bonowski,Lakewood
This letter was published in the Feb. 28 edition.
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