The Intermountain Club

The Intermountain Club is an American conservation group dedicated to promoting responsible commercial and recreational use of public lands and a common sense approach to environmental regulation.  We are lovers of the earth and of nature, but not haters of humans.  We understand that humans have not always been good stewards of the earth, but do not recognize a fundamental conflict between nature and mankind.

We believe in responsible use of public lands, and that those using public lands must be held accountable to leave the land in its previous condition to the degree practical.

We believe that humans can manipulate nature and make use of its abundance to human benefit without detriment to nature or to future generations of humans.

We believe that publicly owned renewable and natural resources can be harvested or extracted in a manner non-harmful to the environment and landscape while allowing profit to the individuals or corporations engaged in harvesting or extracting.  Further, such rational use of public lands can benefit the owners of those resources, the citizens of the United States of America, providing an extremely valuable economic boon to nearby communities and to the nation at large.  Therefore such harvesting and extracting should be encouraged by government entities that control public lands and those agencies should have the authority and responsibility to supervise the commercial use of the land and the good neighbor practices of the temporary occupants, as well as the reclamation of the land as the final act and responsibility of occupation according to established, reasonable guidelines.

We believe that publicly owned land should be controlled by the most local government entity practical and that redundant, multi agency control is wasteful and counterproductive.

We believe that recreational use of public lands can also be accommodated in an environmentally responsible way. We support open use of most public lands and good neighbor practices of the users.

We believe that property rights are fundamental to a free society; we advocate extremely limited use of Eminent Domain and then only when clear and unavoidable public necessity can be established.

We believe that land use rights such as grazing rights and water rights are, in fact, property rights and not subject to whimsical government prerogative.

We believe that evidence is lacking to support the theory of man-made “global warming” or “climate change” and that the American people should be subject to no hardships, taxes, or inconveniences in regard to this issue until such evidence exists along with a scientific evaluation of ramifications.  

We believe that carbon dioxide is a natural, essential gas and that the living earth is an extremely stable ecosystem capable of self correcting perturbations, and that such perturbations and corrections have occurred throughout the history of the earth.

We believe that scientific research that by the nature of its funding is biased toward a presumed result is not scientific at all.