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[QUOTE="KWJams, post: 86979, member: 19939"]
SUWA Bids for Land Near Zion Park
 Sunday, May 13, 2001

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Utah environmental group has offered to buy a parcel of state land on the edge of Zion National Park in an effort to stop the town of Kanarraville from opening it up to off-road vehicles. 
    The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance bid $113,750 on Thursday for the 91 acres along Spring Creek, more than the town's offer. 
    "This is a very special place," said Liz Thomas, an attorney with SUWA's Moab office, adding she would like to see it protected as part of the greater Zion National Park ecosystem. "There are mountain lions, bald eagles and wild turkeys." 
    But opening the fragile canyon to ATVs will inevitably diminish its wilderness qualities, she said. 
    Kanarraville Mayor Randy Williams said local residents just wanted to preserve their historical access to a canyon where generations have hunted, hiked and picnicked. The town's water source also is in the canyon. 
    "We want to keep it the way it has been," Williams said. "SUWA comes in and treats us like a bunch of heathens. It's our back yard and we love it."

Must be nice to have so much money within an organization to just buy up areas!

Like in the old days when ranchers would buy just the land where a water hole was,  making ownership to thousands of acres around it worthless without the water. :(
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