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...years ago, I engaged in a long and bitter battle to kick the proposed 1976 Winter Olympics out of Evergreen and, eventually, out of Colorado. We feared that the environmental impact would be too severe. Now I realize how futile that fight was. Colorado has had it. Between the sagebrush rebellion and the oil companies, the once beautiful national forests and other public lands here will soon be parceled out to the highest bidder...
That feeling helped the birth in 1977 of the League for the Advancement of States' Equal Rights (LASER), the main force behind what is known as the Sagebrush Rebellion. Led mostly by local government officials, state lawmakers and ranchers, the Sagebrush movement is attempting to wrest control of as much as 400 million acres of the land now owned by the Federal Government. Several states, including Utah, Arizona and Wyoming, have passed resolutions laying claim to their federal land, and Nevada is planning to sue the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to win the rights...
...election of Ronald Reagan has suddenly given supporters new hope. Reagan, who won 60% of the popular votes cast in the Mountain States, sent a telegram to a meeting of 500 rebellion sup porters held in Salt Lake City last month relaying his "best wishes to all my fellow Sagebrush reb els." Added the President-elect: "I renew my pledge to work toward a Sagebrush solution ... to insure that the states have an equitable share of public lands and their natural resources...
Republican control of the new U.S. Senate has also increased the influence of such fellow "rebels" as Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Sagebrush Rebellion leaders now plan to concentrate their battle for control of the federal lands in Congress, where both Hatch and Nevada's Democratic Representative Jim Santini have introduced bills that would set up a commission to establish an "orderly process" for transferring land to the states. Though they have little
Wells now pump oil right out from underneath Main Street, and dozens more dot the surrounding buttes. Cranes lay down sections of pipe across snow and sagebrush that will carry gas from well to processing plants. Helicopters whir overhead. Hundreds of workers live in trailers and tents in fields, along the river banks, or wherever a friendly rancher will let them camp...