Not sure what people feel about their aluminum foil for cooking, jewelry for Valentine's Day, the smart phone in your hands or the desk/laptop computers used at home and for work, the batteries for electric cars, on and on and on...
Seems just fine if the mineral extraction is from outside the U.S. the oil is foreign based, and the impact to land compromised is not our problem.
Theodore Roosevelt was an "America First" type Republican President. People love to call him the man for conservation. I differ... He is a man for *American conservation*. His usurping of the Columbian Govt to tear apart a foreign country's land for sake of American economic commerce is historically well established (Panama Canal). I believe he is one of my most favorite Presidents more for his Immigration stance over his American conservation of our lands though certainly value all he's done for *American public lands.
I believe in domestic mineral extraction as well as our importation of foreign materials. I love our public lands and believe in *multi use* public land. In no way does multi use exclude our domestic extraction of the minerals used within the items you and I use daily.
We have entrenched ourselves in one side or the other in our actual intent, be it political lobbying or debates as share shared here. Hunters and Anglers, backpackers and bird watchers, we all work for a living that grants us opportunity to enjoy our leisure activities. Like that Leupold scope? The energy used to travel, be it air, land, water... to reach our favorite hunting and fishing locations? The minerals used to build that Titan, Tundra, Ram, etc. I'm personally thankful for the efforts made to ecologically extract the materials from our own land. I look forward to constant enhancements.
Where do the environmental proponents meet with the domestic extraction proponents to find common ground? Our modern technology has come a long way! For those of us that acknowledge the items used in our daily work lives and actual use in our leisure tools and find an interest in our own extraction vs "not in my country" type mentality, we look for American inginuity to continue our pursuit towards domestic production in as ecologically safe as possible within our multi use land.
The value of my electronics to conduct research at the touch of my fingertips is a testament to extraction at a global level. "Not in my country" is not something I agree with though to each his / her own.
Some interesting reading material that is available via our "internet is always right" library. I'm interested in what projects and actions are in the works or are used. I think the collaboration efforts for our timber industry is great! Would like to see Stewardship programs continue on the mineral level. American job opportunities increase and our own responsibility to preserve our land for future generations to enjoy. Onpoint and others, nitpick away... You too might become a genius.
http://www.miningfacts.org/Environment/How-can-mining-become-more-environmentally-sustainable/
This .gov link has TONS of great information and links to value... Just scratching the surface and enjoying the research within.
https://minerals.usgs.gov/science/minerals-environment.html
Seems just fine if the mineral extraction is from outside the U.S. the oil is foreign based, and the impact to land compromised is not our problem.
Theodore Roosevelt was an "America First" type Republican President. People love to call him the man for conservation. I differ... He is a man for *American conservation*. His usurping of the Columbian Govt to tear apart a foreign country's land for sake of American economic commerce is historically well established (Panama Canal). I believe he is one of my most favorite Presidents more for his Immigration stance over his American conservation of our lands though certainly value all he's done for *American public lands.
I believe in domestic mineral extraction as well as our importation of foreign materials. I love our public lands and believe in *multi use* public land. In no way does multi use exclude our domestic extraction of the minerals used within the items you and I use daily.
We have entrenched ourselves in one side or the other in our actual intent, be it political lobbying or debates as share shared here. Hunters and Anglers, backpackers and bird watchers, we all work for a living that grants us opportunity to enjoy our leisure activities. Like that Leupold scope? The energy used to travel, be it air, land, water... to reach our favorite hunting and fishing locations? The minerals used to build that Titan, Tundra, Ram, etc. I'm personally thankful for the efforts made to ecologically extract the materials from our own land. I look forward to constant enhancements.
Where do the environmental proponents meet with the domestic extraction proponents to find common ground? Our modern technology has come a long way! For those of us that acknowledge the items used in our daily work lives and actual use in our leisure tools and find an interest in our own extraction vs "not in my country" type mentality, we look for American inginuity to continue our pursuit towards domestic production in as ecologically safe as possible within our multi use land.
The value of my electronics to conduct research at the touch of my fingertips is a testament to extraction at a global level. "Not in my country" is not something I agree with though to each his / her own.
Some interesting reading material that is available via our "internet is always right" library. I'm interested in what projects and actions are in the works or are used. I think the collaboration efforts for our timber industry is great! Would like to see Stewardship programs continue on the mineral level. American job opportunities increase and our own responsibility to preserve our land for future generations to enjoy. Onpoint and others, nitpick away... You too might become a genius.
http://www.miningfacts.org/Environment/How-can-mining-become-more-environmentally-sustainable/
This .gov link has TONS of great information and links to value... Just scratching the surface and enjoying the research within.
https://minerals.usgs.gov/science/minerals-environment.html
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