BLM closes section of Castle Rocks, ID

[wdietsch]

if this has already been posted my apologizes

 

Access Fund webpage

 

Rock & Ice article

[billcoe]

manipulative Machiavellian bureaucratic pricks

[JosephH]

I'd say it probably has a lot less to do with 'bureau pricks' and a lot more to do with not getting all the relevant stakeholders to the table from the beginning. Tribal governments are powerful and should not be brought to the table late in the game. It's also the reason you want to avoid doing or proposing things at your crag that will involve, by regulatory or policy mandate, a) the railroads b) the Washington Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (WDAHP) or c) Tribal governments. Add to that numerous Federal stakeholders and the opportunity to get had is pretty high as you are back to attempting to navigate / peel a regulatory 'onion'.

[billcoe]

Actually, I woke up this am thinking of the Shoshone viewpoint. They've seen well over a 100 years of Dantes hell with the government: if this is just a case where they finally got the dice to roll their way for once after all this time, good for them.

[Lovetoclimb]

Seems pretty lame to just close it to climbing but allow all other uses to continue including hunting, hiking, and grazing. I can understand avoiding and respecting important religious sites, but to just single out climbing just doesn't seem right.

[Off_White]

Stupid management decisions are traditional in that area. Twin Sister's climbing ban anyone?

 

 

[Drederek]

so what climbs are affected? There are a lot more than 40 established climbs there.

[Off_White]

Yeah, hard to tell isn't it? On at least one of those article, when you click on the map, it just brings up a smaller version.