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March 2009
March 2009
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COORDINATION NEWS
Three California Counties Follow Modoc’s Lead

Standing Ground | March 2009 | Margaret Byfield --

Sixteen years ago, California’s Modoc County set out to change how federal land management decisions affected their citizens. They insisted the federal agencies coordinate their plans and policies with county priorities by utilizing the “coordination” requirement set forth by Congress to ensure federal agencies worked with local governments.

The uniquely positioned Northeastern County, bor
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Authority Of Local Government Is Instilled In Our History Authority Of Local Government Is Instilled In Our History

Standing Ground | March 2009 | Fred Kelly Grant --

Across the Nation, local government officials are finding that they have more authority than they thought. They have authority to bring federal and state regulatory and management agencies to the negotiating/planning table to deal with them on an equal-footing basis.
Cities, counties, and special governmental districts (irrigation, natural resource, fire, school, water control) in which federal forest
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COORDINATION NEWS
Owyhee, the First Coordinating County Owyhee, the First Coordinating County

Standing Ground | March 2009 | Fred Kelly Grant --

Over two decades ago now, Owyhee County took a chance -- a big chance -- and began to exert local authority typical of that known best to our forefathers. The Commissioners Dick Bass, Hal Tolmie, and Chet Sellman made what has become a rather historic decision. They invoked authority granted to a county by the Congress to require that federal land management agencies “coordinate
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