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Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne

1275 West Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 85007-2926

Dear Mr. Horne:

I know your very busy, so I’ll be as brief and to the point as possible. This letter , request if you will is eight years past due. However, the previous individuals in elected office in Arizona would have made it a waste of time. Let me say here , that I for one appreciate your efforts related to the nonsense that has been going on the border and in the Tucson Public , taxpayer funded school district.

We believe that the State of Arizona , joined by the citizens of all affected communities past and present should pursue a lawsuit as plaintiffs, against the Federal Government , Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, the U.S. Forest Service, and all environmental groups and individuals with in those groups that have and are responsible for the cause and affect of these wild fires as defendants. The mismanagement ,neglect and detrimental policies that have been adopted by aforementioned government agencies is well documented, and culpability is obvious.

The Citizens of these affected communities have suffered injury namely physically, mentally, and economically. The immediate and long term costs of these wildfires are well documented. And given the financial condition of the federal government finds itself the window of opportunity to reclaim our land is NOW!

This request should have come from the citizens of Arizona after the Rodeo/Chediski fire. But we are where we are. These current fires that are going on around the state are the result of years of mismanagement and neglect. Influenced by groups and individuals in governmental agencies, and others with like minded ideology.

Arizona and the seventeen western states have been and are a target by those same groups and individuals in federal governmental agencies. If their agenda is allowed to continue they will completely destroy the economies of our rural communities. Which is exactly their goal, to drive the human off of the rural land.

The citizens of Arizona’s rural communities have the right to expect their state government to do everything possible to promote sound economic policies. When the state gave up jurisdictional control over these forest lands to the federal government , these agencies and individuals knew exactly how that would benefit their goals. You may or may not be aware of the current efforts in New Mexico, Utah and Nevada to reclaim jurisdiction and management of their lands. Its time for Arizona to join that fight.

Secondly barring the failure of the state to intervene in this matter. The Citizens , we believe are able and willing to enter into a lawsuit on their own. The only question would then be, where would the state figure into all of this? Stated differently, which side of the fence would the state government find itself.

To sum up , if we fail to take back our land. If we fail to bring back the logging industry to rural Arizona and surrounding states. If we fail to address other detrimental issues facing rural Arizona from these entities‘, if we fail to control our own destiny then those that wish to see our states economy and rural communities fail will have succeeded. Our rural Arizona will fade away and become distant memories of our past.

God gave us our natural resources to provide for our people. We must be good stewards of the land. We must manage those resources to provide for sound economic public policy today and for the generations that will follow.

We will not let this issue go away after the smoke has cleared. There are many details that I left out of this letter , that must be addressed , but this is not the time. If you are interested in diving deeper into the weeds on this important issue , we would be happy to come to Phoenix at your convenience and discuss this matter in greater detail.

Together lets works towards “The State of Arizona, and its citizens V the Federal government, Department of Interior, Department of Ag, U.S Forest Service, Sierra Club and others to be named”. We need to move this issue thru the courts.

FYI : We have posted this letter on our web site: formerly http://thearizonasentinel.com . It was sent out on the web 6/18/2011.

Note: Appendix C

Definition of Terms

Federal Land

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Commonly, this term is used ambiguously with many different and conflicting insinuations as to meaning. There is no definitions for the term in “Black’s Law Dictionary, Seventh Edition. The term is sometimes used to describe lands where certain resources have been managed by the federal government but upon which no cession of any state legislative jurisdiction over the land nor purchase of the land by the federal government has occurred. Used in this context the term “federal land” implies no ownership and confers no jurisdiction.

Public Land

. Federal or state lands to which no rights or claims of others are attached.

Thank you for your time.

Respectfully

Bruce Olsen 1 928 240 0474

Overgaard Arizona.

For a update on the Monument Fire: http://kfaq.typepad.com/brucedelay/  information you wont get from the socialist media.