a question about public roads

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This is a hopeless argument. In a society where most people agree that individuals can own land, the people who don't agree will be very unhappy with the situation and vice versa.

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Not really. As I stated I agree with the phi;losophical fundamentals of the classic anarchist writers. I do, however, also strongly support the state extending the right of citizens to have the 'right to roam' and limit landowners plans to dominate the countryside etc. People who fight for this right within the system have achieved some success.

Right to Roam to become Law

Judge Halts Oil and Gas Development in Proposed Colorado Wilderness
Ruling protects wilderness qualities and rare plants from harmful drilling


Utah Counties Can't Run Over National Parks
You don't own parts of our national parks just because you say so.


Arctic Wildlife Gets a New Lease on Life
Alaskan lake and surrounding area gets protection from drilling.


Roadless Rule Repeal Repealed
Roadless forests are once again protected -- for now.


House Votes to Stop Subsidizing Logging in the Tongass
Legislation seeks to protect America's largest intact temperate rainforest, sustainable economies dependent on it, and even save taxpayers money.


Hawai’i Shoreline Access Suit Settled
State of Hawai'i will reconsider definition of 'shoreline'


Putting the Brakes on Fast Track Oil Shale Development
Another sneak-attack on the 2006 Budget Reconciliation Bill thwarted; this one to prevent public scrutiny of oil shale development.


Robledo Wilderness protected from ORVs
Wilderness protected from destructive off-road vehicle use


Supreme Court Rejects Attack on Monuments
Earthjustice successfully defends authority of the president to create national monuments in lawsuit brought by anti-environmental groups.


Senate Votes to Protect Arctic from More Drilling
Attempt to hijack the Defense Appropriations Bill fails


Harmful Mining Provision Derailed by United Interest Groups
A sneaky effort to allow private companies to mine on public lands without paying a royalty to the taxpayer fails to make it into the 2006 Budget Reconciliation Bill.


BLM Will Look Before Leasing
Future oil and gas development strategies will go through environmental impact analysis


Overgrazing on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Grazing reductions on National Monument defended


Powder River Basin Protected
Judge Downes determines Army Corps' CBM wastewater storage permit is illegal.


Utah's First Attempt to Use New Highway Loophole Defeated
State withdraws Weiss Highway claim


Walton County Lands Protected
Greenways and trails will help students learn about conservation


Forest Service Withdraws Plan to Issue Oil and Gas Leases Near Yellowstone
Following vociferous public outcry and a threatened lawsuit by Earthjustice, the Forest Service does the right thing


Desert Tortoise: "Recovery," Not Just "Survival"
A federal judge rules that conservation requires "recovery," not just "survival"


Biological and Cultural Treasures at Makua to be Protected
A March 2004 settlement requires the military to stop conducting prescribed burns at Makua Military Reservation and to complete their consultation with the USFWS in an effort to protect native Hawaiian cultural sites and endangered plants and animals.


Yellowstone and Grand Teton to be Protected From Snowmobiles
Earthjustice helps protect valuable and fragile ecosystems from the noise and noxious emissions of snowmobiles.


Forest Service's Ability to Protect Endangered Fish Upheld
Ninth Circuit denies challenge to Forest Service decision that protects endangered chinook salmon and steelhead trout.


Earthjustice Defends Public's Access to Courts
Earthjustice teamed with Alaskan Native groups and a political party to succesfully challenge a new Alaska state law that inhibited public access to courts.


A-B Wilderness Protected From Roads
The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness is kept road-free with help from Earthjustice


Clean Air Standards to be Strengthened Above National Parks
Earthjustice forces EPA to end 13-year delay in raising clean air standards above nation's most prized national parks.


Restricting Snowmobile Use in Yellowstone National Park
Snowmobile use restricted in Yellowstone as damaging to park life and visitors.


Court Requires Full Study of Mammoth Airport Expansion
Judge Slams FAA for Failure to Conduct Thorough Study; A Second Case Proceeds in State Court


Appeals Court Reinstates National Forest Roadless Area Protections
A federal court of appeals in San Francisco on December 12 overturned an injunction that had blocked a presidential order to stop building roads in national forest roadless areas.


Canyons of the Ancients Stays Quiet
Negotiations with the oil and gas survey company bear fruit


Bitterroot Salvage Sale Cut by Two-Thirds
Project was largest in history

Tongass Wilderness Injunction Buys Time
Court rules Forest Service cannot continue to approve timber sales in roadless areas while simultaneously considering the very same areas for wilderness protection.


Settlement Requiring State to Regulate Commercial Recreational Use of Public Lands
Will protect against habitat degradation and excessive interference with other uses of public lands.


Sequoia National Monument is Affirmed
The national monument established by President Clinton to protect the last pockets of unprotected giant sequoias on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada has withstood a challenge.


Safeguarding Hawai'i's Native Plants
Under court order, in 2003, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made final designations of more than 400,000 acres of critical habitat for scores of species of endangered and threatened plants native to Hawai`i.


Gold in Them Thar Hills
It looked as if nothing could stop a Canadian mining company from reopening an abandoned gold mine adjacent to Yellowstone National Park, threatening three major watersheds with acid-laced pollution. But Earthjustice had a better idea. Staff attorney Doug Honnold explains.


Postal Arrogance
In the mid-1980s, the Army gave the Postal Service permission to build a large new postoffice on land that was about to become a national park. Buck Parker, executive director of Earthjustice, explains what happened next.


Kaiparowits Power Plant
The wild, remote, rugged, and beautiful Kaiparowits Plateau in southern Utah was slated to become an industrial zone with coal mine and power plant. Instead it is now a national monument.


Mineral King: Breaking Down the Courthouse Door
Don Harris, one of Earthjustice's founders, tells the story of how it all started, in a lawsuit that opened up the legal system to environmental organizations and sparked the creation of the organization that would become Earthjustice.