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Op-Ed: Mountain Accord Is Utahns’ Chance to Shape the Future by Carl Fisher
Your voice matters! Mountain Accord comment period closes MAY 1, 2015. Send comments to comment@mountainaccord.com – Edit: the comment period is now closed. This post remains for archival purposes. By Carl Fisher, Executive Director of Save Our Canyons This past week, both chambers of Congress passed a non-binding budget resolution…
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Mountain Accord; The Most Critical Issues Are Looming for the Wasatch Mountains
By Carl Fisher To fully understand and appreciate the Mountain Accord process, you have to understand and appreciate the history of conflict that brought us to this place in time, what in essence convened the Mountain Accord. Too much time and energy has recently been spent worrying about a train…
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Mountain Accord Update; Cottonwood Canyon Task Force Negotiations
For the past seven weeks, Save Our Canyons has been engaged in a negotiation to figure out our future participation in the Mountain Accord process. As I listened to discussions at our Board Retreat in November, I began to realize there was little, if any good, coming out of the…
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Mountain Accord
By John Worlock, Member, Save Our Canyons Board of Directors https://saveourcanyons.org/2014/10/13/1696/ This is a late wake-up call for lovers of the beauty and the tranquility of the Central Wasatch Mountains. Those foothills, peaks and canyons have stood there, majestically, for much longer than people, including the original human inhabitants, have been…
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Save Our Canyons “Idealized Transportation” Concept
The Transportation System Group (TSG), one of four system groups in the Mountain Accord Program, has met on five occasions. The TSG has reviewed and approved a document titled “Existing Conditions & Future Trendlines of the Transportation System.” The TSG has also developed and approved: (1). a Transportation Vision Statement…