Urban preservationists want Barry to declare 2.5 million acres in east-central Oregon a national monument. They never go there, so nobody else should, either.
ADRIAN -- The future of 2.5 million acres in southeast Oregon's Malheur County drew a crowd of about 500 to the gymnasium at Adrian High School on Thursday night to discuss the Owyhee Canyonlands.
About 45 percent of the land in sprawling Malheur County, second largest in Oregon, is administered by the Bureau of Land Management's Vale District, an agency of the Department of the Interior.
Meeting attendees appeared overwhelming against any additional federal regulation, though they listened politely to environmentalists, mostly from Portland and Bend.
It's all about Saving the Planet, so environmeddlists from Portland are perfectly happy to drive several hundred miles round-trip to the town of 140 people in order to explain why it's so important for the residents to not sully the lands by using part of them from time to time. BLM restrictions are simply insufficient, as far as the urbanite preservationists are concerned.
Because, you know, the people who've lived there for years are really a bunch of stupid hicks, and the urbanite's know what's best.
Heck, those folks are so stupid that they don't even vote Democratic!