"The idea that SUWA, and its lackey Mr. Hinchey, represents the voice of rural Utah is like saying King George III represented the American colonies on issues of taxation."
"However, the proposed Red Rock Wilderness bill targeting Utah devastates our local economies even more so during the economic recession."
"This is not what we elected President Obama to do. Things in Washington, D.C., are seriously off track."
"An overwhelming majority of Utahans, and Americans for that matter, have rejected the Federal one size fits all approach to wilderness in Utah."
"If the end goal is to further inflate the acreage in this bill thus allowing the organizations to exist in perpetuity, then it is going to be a long, rocky road."
"In fact, all of that money and all of that effort has produced exactly zero acres of new wilderness in Utah."
"We have listened to all interested parties and especially to those stakeholders with the most at stake, as we should, and by collaboration and inclusion, we have had success."
"The special interest groups who are behind this bill have raised tens of millions of dollars over the years with the promise to their donors that the money would be spent to protect important tracts o..."
"This proposal turns that principle on its head."
"It is wrong that this legislation turns a completely deaf ear to these most significant stakeholders."
"Successful and responsible conservation should and will be achieved when Americans who have the most at stake are listened to and respected and not treated as a nuisance and deemed irrelevant."