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riversedge

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Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:56 PM Jan 2017

URGENT!!! @jasoninthehouse has a Bill to sell off 3 Million Acres of YOUR Public Lands! Call your U



Tweet--from one of the alternative tweets

AltNPSAlaskaRegion ?@AltNPSAlaska 16h16 hours ago

URGENT!!! @jasoninthehouse has a Bill to sell off 3 Million Acres of YOUR Public Lands! Call your US Rep to stop it!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/621
148 replies 3,878 retweets 2,575 likes


Here is the bill (more if you click link)

H.R.621 - To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain Federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as suitable for disposal, and for other purposes.115th Congress (2017-2018) | Get alerts
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Replys:

Tim Hart ?@i70paintball 16h16 hours ago

@AltNPSAlaska @NotAltWorld @jasoninthehouse Good ! ! Federal Government should NOT own Land But maybe just a park.
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AltNPSAlaskaRegion ?@AltNPSAlaska 16h16 hours ago

@i70paintball @NotAltWorld @jasoninthehouse Correction when the Federal Government owns the land that means YOU the American People own it!




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Mark Reynolds ?@project21words 15h15 hours ago

@AltNPSAlaska @NotAltWorld @jasoninthehouse Some people have never seen wilderness? This is stealing our land & someone's heritage sites?





I just followed The Wilderness Society:



Wilderness Society ?@Wilderness Jan 27

Sell off 3 million acres of public land? Find your representative’s contact info and tell them NO WAY: http://bit.ly/2jZeUGj #OurWild
2 replies 79 retweets 50 likes





Wilderness Society ?@Wilderness 22m22 minutes ago

Usually @NatlParkService is busy hiring summer recruits. Instead hundreds of jobs are in limbo http://bit.ly/2jnqezd via @RobChaney1
1 reply 22 retweets 13 likes





Wilderness Society ?@Wilderness 2h2 hours ago

If we don’t speak up, Congress roll back Obama-era oil & gas reforms. TAKE ACTION
https://wilderness.org/methane

AltNPSAlaskaRegion ?@AltNPSAlaska 16h16 hours ago

@ShanaTanenbaum I'm guessing "suitable" for exploitation. #Resist #RogueRangers
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URGENT!!! @jasoninthehouse has a Bill to sell off 3 Million Acres of YOUR Public Lands! Call your U (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2017 OP
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