Talk:Sagebrush Rebellion

Sagebrush Rebellion history
I've added significant history of the key Sagebrush Rebellion years. My books for reference are mostly tucked away in storage, alas; I had the pain and pleasure of backing Sen. Hatch's legislative aides on the topic for much of that time, having been a member of the Utah Wilderness Commission before I joined Hatch's Washington staff.

Generally this is an overlooked and under-reported chunk of history. Perhaps it would be better to put this into an entry for "Sagebrush Rebellion" connected to this entry. We need to add other key players, including especially Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., since Nevada was a hotbed of hotheads on the issue.

This may be the most complete entry on the Sagebrush Rebellion so far. --Edarrell 19:49, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

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@ “”helped work around restrictive environmental laws to help mining, ranching, and real estate developing industries that created jobs in the states“”

this is ambiguous. DId they actually create jobs as a result of this intervention, or were they just job-creators in the general sense? I get the reading that the jobs were a result of GHWB's intervention. plasticdoor

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This page requires serious stylistic (and grammatical) changes for clarity.--Dkz999

Sagebrush Rebels is a belief?
This article is either talking about There's gotta be a better way to handle this. Jsharpminor (talk) 22:51, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) a rebellion, per the title,
 * 2) a group of people known as rebels, per the first phrase, or
 * 3) a belief system that caused a rebelliion, per the sixth word of the lede.
 * I agree and took a quick shot at it...though still needs work. Third sentence uses policy twice in different context..and there is no brief clean description of which way the "Rebels" lean on said federal land policy (though that is treated immediately in the next section). Juan Riley (talk) 17:15, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

30 - 80%?
The lede said 30-80%, but it was unsourced. The source now supports 20-85% (19.4-84.5%), so I boldly changed this.

I understand how this could be contentious, but I saw no reverts on this data, and I don't plan to start warring over it. Jsharpminor (talk) 22:50, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Public lands history
The article says "Among the first pieces of legislation passed under the U.S. Constitution was the Northwest Ordinance," but in fact it was passed before the Constitution was ratified, by the Congress of the Confederation, in 1787. Julyo (talk) 22:54, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Did not end in the 1980s

 * Repackaged under new name Wise use movement
 * sources that treat topic as ongoing include
 * http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2016/05/13/sagebrush-rebellion/30487/
 * https://www.hcn.org/issues/48.2/the-hidden-connections-of-the-sagebrush-insurgency
 * HCN describes three, 70s, mid 90s, Obama years

I will build on this later. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:40, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Did not start in the 1970s
The label might be 1970s rhetoric, but the issue itself is much older. http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/Books/Origins_National_Forests/sec13.htm Hope to work on this too. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:11, 3 September 2016 (UTC)