CCA MISSION STATEMENT
The Concerned Climbers of Arizona has been organized for the purpose of preserving climbing access and the climbing environment in Arizona. We advocate for continued recreational access to climbing areas that are threatened by development or other forms of encroachment.
- Consistent in Course and Mission
The Concerned Climbers of Arizona has been formed for the purpose of preserving climbing access and the climbing environment. We advocate for continued recreational access to climbing areas that are threatened by development or other forms of encroachment.
- Seeking to Maintain the Integrity of Oak Flat and our Federally Protected Recreational Resources.
The special interest legislation for a foreign mining entity will result in the destruction of a federally protected recreational resource. This national precedent setting legislation presents potential risk for any other so protected recreational areas.
- Preserving Maximum Climbing
The CCoA advocates on behalf of the approximately 2,000 climbs that are at risk at Oak Flat. This potential massive loss in climbing is also unprecedented in scale for our nation.
- Welcoming and Encouraging of Your Participation. We are Open to All.
Please feel free to join us at our next meeting.
We are a group that spun-off from the Queen Creek Coalition (QCC) group.
Until May 2010 the QCC followed a logical and sensible Statement of Understanding and publicly presented a consistent message that was formed by group consensus. In May 2010, the QCC board voted (by a narrow one person majority) to move towards endorsement of RCM’s current land exchange legislation, abandon all efforts on influencing current or new legislation, and to turn their backs on like-minded fellow stakeholders. Not surprisingly, the Access Fund quietly but strongly counseled against the move but the QCC board, unwisely in our view, chose to ignore their advice.
This dramatic change in direction and strategy ultimately resulted in the departures of four long-standing QCC board members who found endorsement of the current land exchange bills unpalatable based on both principle and on the actual content of the legislation.
- In our view, the current QCC position does not represent the best interests of either the local or larger national climbing community. Effectively, they have become merely another lobbying group for the interests of Resolution Copper Mining, RCM. Endorsement of the current land exchange bills will:
1) Lead directly to the destruction of 2,400 acres of easily accessed and close-by public recreational lands containing 2,000 climbs. This will truly be a “maximized loss” of climbing at Oak Flat. 2) Allow the mine to proceed with blatant disregard for essential environmental protocols.
3) Allow the mine to proceed with complete disrespect towards legitimate and overriding Native American concerns.
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