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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tim Sandstrom" data-source="post: 86980" data-attributes="member: 1108">I ragged on you?I was just at the Friends Board meeting yesterday and they allowed me to speak. Had Cramer's office, Hoeven's office, Heitkamps office, Lundquist from the Corp, Steinwand from NDGF and of course all Friends board members. They are doing something. But they could do a lot more if numbers of people showed the same desire. Complacency got us here. Not because nothing can be done and it will get worse so we just live with it. That's the attitude they exactly want and feast off of.- - - Updated - - -Fritz, I attended two public meetings about the resolution. Overwhelmingly the tribal members themselves and non-tribal members were against any type of transfer. There is no current legal authority to transfer lands to the state or private ownership within the Fort Berthold reservation or for that matter outside the boundary. Although, I would argue FBMRA does say lands can be transferred but the play by Corp within reservation is they can only go to tribe. Which for a lack of other words is horseshit because it's horseshit to transfer lands never 'owned' by the tribe to the tribe. Anyway, people get so caught up in defining recreation as 'fishing' or going to a campground. That's so not the case. It upsets me in fact. By appropriately holding the corp to multipurpose use per the project purposes there are no excess lands. Zero. I challenged Todd to get the public an answer on just how the hell the Corp found 30000 plus acres as excess to project purposes. I heard a lot of crickets after that followed with I don't know and will check. Those that think a transfer means easier access to lake and nothing will change need to lift their shoulders and get out from u see the rock they live under. Now instead of one jurisdiction they have two. And per the MOU there are zero garauntees of free unabated access nor verbiage that will forever lock in hunting as we have known it for 40 plus years on those 30000 acres.  The Corp should just adhere to their recreational duties and allow local entities to develop and maintain new Rec areas. But instead they are adding new barriers!It's a pretty interesting process to take lease of a recreation area. Currently underway south of New Town.  If corp removed or reduced or just trusted entities more the subject at hand for recreation development would be lesser a topic.</blockquote>

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