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Are you willing to extend the comment period, given the fact that so many people have not been heard from?

How can Utah ranchers, farmers, and recreationalists have their voices heard, when you are not responding to our letters and you are not holding hearings?

If you go more specifically to my district, I don't have the specific numbers for BLM, but Federal lands represent about 90 percent, a high percentage of my district.

Let me be clear; my administration values the relationships we have with the Wyoming State BLM Office and the District and Field Office staff throughout the state.

The best solution is to rescind the rule.

This proposed rule was rushed forward without material input from Wyoming or other states.

I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

This rule undermines the work of real conservationists, like farmers and ranchers who have kept the land in good health for generations.

The repeal of this designation is critical to proper management of these lands.

The best environmentalists in the world--by the way, they hate to be called environmentalists, our farmers and ranchers are the best environmentalists in the world--have been taking care of and preserving and protecting these lands.

In the West we know far better how to manage these lands, and have done better for decades and decades, than any bureaucrat in the East Coast could ever imagine or ever dream of managing these lands.

We have bureaucrats on the East Coast who have never been to my district, who have hardly been to the West, other than to fly over it on their way to California, tell us that they know better than we do how to manage these lands.

Nothing good has come out of that designation for the land in Utah, for the local tribes, and for the people who participate in this land.

Let me state clearly for the record that for decades, and decades, and decades, the good people of Utah have managed these lands in a responsible way.

This rule undermines the work of real conservatives, conservationists like farmers and ranchers who have kept the land in good health.

I must admit, I am a little frustrated sometimes. We will call for the Administration to do something, on the Executive Branch to do something, and we ask them to do so much stuff that it does not happen.

I presume part of it is that all of us who want to get elected, and that is the people up here, want to show that we are doing something about something our voters care about.