Letter: Commissioners should not list WSAs on Cheney bill

Dear Editor,

We need to have a say in determining the future management for our wilderness study areas (WSAs). Citizens in other counties have been expressing their opinions through collaborative committees and we should be able to do so as well. I ask that our county commissioners not include our WSAs on a bill being proposed by Rep. Liz Cheney — this would preclude our involvement as citizens who recreate in and understand these areas much better than Rep. Cheney does. Here in Sweetwater County, we should develop a ground-up approach to figuring out what to do with these areas, rather than subscribe to her top-down proposal. My family regularly recreates in the Sand Dunes.

We want to be a part of deciding how they should be managed in the future because they belong to all of us.

 

Kevin Harper

Rock Springs