Bite the hand that feeds you - No SpeedWeek?

[typo41]

One should always tread lightly:


2nd 2016

Dear SCTA Membership,

With the water finally drying up at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Myself and a group of SCTA members were planning a trip up to Bonneville this weekend to assess the conditions and possibly start wheel packing and grooming courses. I placed a courtesy call to Roxanne Tea with the BLM today to inform her of our plans. Roxanne informed me that as a result of ongoing negative comments, letters and other media generated primarily by Dennis Sullivan, President of the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association (USFRA). The BLM will not allow any racing organizations on the Salt at this time and are in fact holding discussions of cancelling all racing for the 2016 season.

As of the writing of this letter I have tried unsuccessfully to contact Dennis Sullivan. I have spoken with Stuart Gosswein with SEMA and Save the Salt Foundation. Stuart and I will continue to hold discussions with Roxanne in an effort to move forward with a resolution. I June will keep the membership informed as the discussions unfold.

Respectfully,

Bill Lattin
SCTA President   

[Stainless1]

I guess they don't like being criticized for the years of salt flat abuse and mismanagement.  Typical bureaucrat response to criticism.... use what power you have to make lots of folks lives miserable to deflect blame    

They think we will all blame Dennis instead of their mismanagement...

[NathanStewart]

I think the same Utah Senators that supported HCR 8 which:

▸     calls attention to the deterioration of Utah's world-famous Bonneville Salt Flats
17     International Speedway;
18          ▸     strongly urges the Bureau of Land Management to formulate a plan, with the
19     participation of the Utah Alliance, Save the Salt Coalition, and other concerned
20     stakeholders, including Intrepid PotashWendover, LLC, to restore the Bonneville
21     Salt Flats to safe land speed racing conditions;
22          ▸     urges the Bureau of Land Management to improve monitored restoration that will
23     maintain the internationally recognized Bonneville Salt Flats International
24     Speedway in safe high-speed racing conditions; and
25          ▸     urges the United States Congress and Utah's congressional delegation to take action
26     to ensure that the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway is restored to safe
27     racing conditions.

... might be interested in seeing how nicely the BLM is behaving.  

[manta22]

Pure spite on the part of the BLM! 

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[Ron Gibson]

Time to write our politicians again explaining what the BLM is threatening to do with our publicly owned land. The BLM evidently thinks it is the boss and unless congress reels then in and says differently, they are.

Ron

[salt27]

A retired upper management BLM employee told me that the worse thing they could do was to make the front page of the newspaper in a negative manner.

We need the press involved.

  Don

[Stainless1]

Guess that didn't get sent to the BNI membership, just the SCTA, nothing in my email...
Don is right, preaching to the choir until it is widely disseminated and pressure is brought to bear on the BLM

[manta22]

"Treading lightly" in this case reminds me of Oliver Twist taking his gruel bowl to the master and pleading ""Please, sir, I want some more."

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[typo41]

I now have a bunch of SCTA people upset on my posting,

My intention was to show the Land Speed community of what can and did happen when you throw rocks at the people that control our playground,,,Bite The Hand That Feeds You,,,,

SCTA is in a difficult position of doing their best to get a handle on this very difficult time, so we need to step back and let them do what can be done.

So if I did the wrong thing with this posting, I am sorry.

[Milwaukee Midget]

Tony, are you saying your post was fictitious?

[NathanStewart]

Um no, he's saying this was just sent out last night and might not have been meant to be shared to all the world to see.

[rouse]

Tony,
I'd have to say that if that is what you were told, you did a big favor to all of us whom are trying to get things ready to run this year.

The sooner the information is out, the better decisions folks can make about what to do next.

So, for as far as I'm concerned you deserve a great big thank you from me.

Thank You

Rouse

[NathanStewart]

Here's another problem.  The SCTA as an organization can only get anywhere with the BLM if they're super, super nice and overly pleasant with them.  Lots of please's and yes ma'ams and thank you very much's.  I get it - that's how they have to be.  The whole honey vs vinegar thing.  But as a red blooded, tax paying, combat vet AMERICAN, I have every gawddamn right to say whatever I please about how dissatisfied I am with how shitty the BLM is and so do all of you.  So Tony did what anyone concerned about this should and shared it and now he's getting heat because this is going to generate more "negative comments and media" about the BLM - this time at the hand of the "SCTA".  These a-holes had it coming.  You can't say "boohoo you racer guys are mean so we'll show you and not let you race this year" without consequences.  The association can keep being nice and they should - but I'm not on the board and I'm beyond pissed off at these sad excuses of hypocrite beuarocrats who's sole purpose for existing is to preserve OUR LAND for OUR USE.   

[jdincau]

I would guess that it is the title of the posting not the content.

[Milwaukee Midget]

Tony, my apology - I did a bad job of getting a handle on this.  Thanks, Nathan.

Chris