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SIERRA VISTA — While an environmental opponent of Fort Huachuca said he expects the post will not be closed, he expressed continuing concern of the lack of responsibility by post officials and leaders in the civilian community when it comes to water issues.
Co-founder and board member of the Center for Biological Diversity Dr. Robin Silver, a medical doctor, said the amount of money the Army and Department of Defense has spent on the post still lacks any sense of responsibility for damaging the environment.
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Who is gonna care about the San Pedro if no one lives here? A degree does not make a person smart
Dr. Silver and the Center for Biological Diversity have 23 lawyers on staff to better turn the San Pedro Valley into a ghost town. That means 23 attorneys that are thinking of ways to put you out of business and/or out of a job. I invite them all to come live among us and look us in the eye as they attempt to bankrupt us and drive us from our homes and businesses!
I suppose it doesnt matter that there is continual building in Sierra Vista and that we aslo provide water to Tombstone and the surrounding communities. I do believe that Fort Huachuca has done more to conserve water than any one else. Stop building ,stop building reataurants. If it wasnt for Fort Huachuca there would be no Sierra Vista. We are not the only place on earth that has water issues.
Do not fear progress because of those running around telling us the sky is falling down. Part of the solution is to get the feds to revoke the law designating the area as a Riparian area. The migrating birds will still come. They just won’t bring their lawyers…
To stop Building and Growing means we stagnate, if more reataurants (sic) do not build in an area, then that area does not grow, it recesses, property values go down, businesses go out of business, restaurants close.
I do agree that Robin Silver should go after the Town of Tombstone to give up it’s water rights in the Huachuca Mountains, they probably consume more water than all of Sierra Vista.
Rancher
25 years ago I suggested that negotiating with those who have no stake in our future, only the intent to make us go away (terrorists) was a bad idea. Now you ask them for an opinion on what should happen next. You have allowed the camel in the tent.
Of course Robin Silver wants the Fort to go away, and all those associated with it. He is of the crowd who feels that the "correct" number of humans on the planet is in the few hundred thousand. There is no meeting in the middle with his ilk.
Ability to negotiate comes from a position of strength. The Fort Huachuca 50 and others have bowed to the Eviroids demands, rather than fight them in court, for so long that they now believe their own drivel.
If you can make more water, do so. If you don’t want people to move here, stop them. Just stop asking life style opinions of people who would prefer you dead.
I do believe the good doctor has not kept up with the most sucessful effort the managment of the fort has done to reduce water usage from the aquifier. He must not have read the articles printed in the Herald and local papers about the recovery operations.
God help us if the fort is returned to the public. Talk about an environmental disaster. The problem here is - unlimited building permits in and effort to boost the scope of the town government. Less water usage, more houses, more need for police, fire stations, schools, road building. and most of all bigger local government.
Doctor Silver should not call himself an environmentlist.
While Dr. Robin Silver is safely ensconced in his retirement in Mesa Arizona, he would love to see all of us in the Sierra Vista area unemployed by shutting down Ft Huachaca. I would like to see his proposal for new jobs for all of us!
For years thinning out the Huachuca’s was held up because of these "environmentalists"……
Look what happened last year.
One has to wonder if the forest had been thinned, the fire would not have been so devastating!
Perhaps this tree hugger group would like to take "responsibility for damaging the environment"!
I think you’ll find that thinning in the Huachucas was not held up by any kind of environmental objections. Instead, it was likely lack of funding by US Forest Service that held it up. Many enviro groups are supportive of appropriate thinning.