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...GROWING SAGEBRUSH REBELLION...
FROM THE BEGINNING, THE WESTERN states have been creatures of federal subsidy--not only grass but minerals, timber and water as well. That federal oversight has fallen short of the ideal is evident in great carpets of sagebrush choking out the range grass, in clear-cut national forests and in mining ventures that threaten even such a national treasure as Yellowstone National Park. The fragile Western environment is degraded, and the public treasury receives virtually no revenue in return for the degradation. Public interest can be served only by improving the federal stewardship of what belongs to all Americans. ROBERT...
...MOVEMENT IS NO MERE rekindling of the '70s' Sagebrush Rebellion, although it does share the same goal of increasing local control over federal lands. Carver, who carries his Constitution in his shirt pocket even while baling hay, is a product of the same antifederalist ferment that produced such widely divergent events as the Oklahoma City bombing and Ross Perot's recent proposal to launch a new political party. Nye's particular brand of rebellion is driven too by an intense feeling that the combined forces of federal law, environmental activism and urban growth may have doomed a mythic frontier life...
...settle a lawsuit filed by Weaver and his three surviving daughters, the government agreed last week to pay them $3.1 million. Their lawyer, Gerry Spence, a sagebrush sage and best-selling author, says the settlement lets his clients avoid a trial that would require them to relive memories of a "dead mother on the floor for 11 days, rotting in the sun, and a dead boy out in back in the woodshed." Meanwhile, the FBI was spared the ordeal of facing an Idaho jury that might well have awarded the Weavers even more money, to say nothing of what could...
...count, some 75 counties have already adopted or are considering measures that contest federal rights over public land within their borders. The new push for local land control resembles the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s, when Westerners fought the Federal Government over land-use issues. The new drive, however, is better organized and more widely supported. The Western States Coalition, founded only 13 months ago, advocates local land control and has the support of hundreds of county and state officials and private interest groups. The coalition is pushing to give ranchers and others greater access to federal lands...