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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 183603" data-attributes="member: 373">Apres, if you can, please share with us EXACTLY how we as residents can impact the regulations involved in a wilderness designation on Federal lands and I will certainly be interested in see if it can be done. (public comment periods have been proven to be ignored on these issues time and again) There are "local" groups all over the nation just like the one here you mention that are advocates for what I am not completely opposed to in protecting these lands. But as some of the links I have shared on this site and others show, those local entities end up taking a back seat to the realities of these Federal designations in most every case. That is largely the reason I support states having more control over the management of these public lands. Like I said, I am not opposed to these areas being preserved but the realities have shown us what happens. That said, there is a significant difference in ideologies behind the administrations choice to head the Dept of the Interior than there has been in the past. Zinke has stated that states and local entities should have more say in the management and impact of these designations so perhaps something might change. Just like the swamp has proven hard to drain, the lobbying behind the groups that have drug us where we are is hard to change as well, so I will believe it when it happens.</blockquote>