“The Arizona Strip is historically, religiously, culturally more Utah than Arizona,” Kanab Mayor Colton Johnson said. “The people who are using it mostly from Utah … and you have some from Fredonia, Ariz., a few miles south of Kanab.”
‘The Arizona Strip is historically, religiously, culturally more Utah than Arizona,’ one Utah mayor said.
Biden’s announcement drew swift condemnation from state and southern Utah officials, who characterized the new monument as yet another example of federal overreach and underhanded dealing. “This is a total abuse of the Antiquities Act,” he said. “The act was never meant to be a landscape-wide management tool, and that’s what [the federal government] is using it as … [Congress] needs to wipe out this ridiculous abuse of power.”
Heaton characterizes Biden’s action as a federal land grab and frets it could put him out of business by restricting his grazing rights, seizing his property and jeopardizing his access to his water rights. In Arizona, ranchers own water rights, even when they are located on state or federal land. “The uncomfortable reality,” Meyeres added, “which those pushing this latest land takeover are eager to ignore, is that the permanent loss of mining, logging and, likely, ranching, impacts the ability of actual locals to provide for their families, including our Navajo and Paiute friends.”Amber Reimondo, energy director for the environmental nonprofit Grand Canyon Trust, said such assertions are just plain wrong.
Mayor Johnson said ranchers and hunters use the land the most and said the “hippie and environmentalist type people” tend to stick to better-known and more accessible tourist destinations.
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