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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans move to sell off 3.3m acres of national land, sparking rallies
Now that Republicans have quietly drawn a path to give away much of Americans public land, US representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah has introduced what the Wilderness Society is calling step two in the GOPs plan to offload federal lands.
The new piece of legislation would direct the interior secretary to immediately sell off an area of public land the size of Connecticut. In a press release for House Bill 621, Chaffetz, a Tea Party Republican, claimed that the 3.3m acres of national land, maintained by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), served no purpose for taxpayers.
But many in the 10 states that would lose federal land in the bill disagree, and public land rallies in opposition are bringing together environmentalists and sportsmen across the west.
Set aside for mixed use, BLM land is leased for oil, gas and timber, but is also open to campers, cyclists and other outdoor enthusiasts. As well as providing corridors for gray wolves and grizzly bears, low-lying BLM land often makes up the winter pasture for big game species, such as elk, oryx and big-horned sheep.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/public-lands-sell-congress-bureau-management-chaffetz
Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)dhill926
(16,314 posts)and beat the living shit out of modern day repubs, with his "big stick"...
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 31, 2017, 02:46 PM - Edit history (1)
I desperately hope they will be halted in 2 years!
2naSalit
(86,330 posts)They needed to be stopped a long time ago but I'll settle for right now.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)without regard to any beauty and majesty they destroy. Natural beauty and majesty are not on their radar at all.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)is neat stacks of hundred dollar bills.
Bengus81
(6,928 posts)mobeau69
(11,132 posts)Jason serves no purpose for taxpayers.
brush
(53,742 posts)rickford66
(5,521 posts)Once back in control, confiscate the land back and claim it was sold off illegally.
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)In western Pennsylvania the department of Veterans Affairs bought over 350 acres of land for the National Cemetery Of The Alleghenies in Washington County. Somehow someone in the county sold about 40 acres of that land to someone for "development". When the VA found out they confiscated it back telling the county that it had been sold off illegally.
rickford66
(5,521 posts)jeffreyi
(1,938 posts)My congressman offices yesterday.
angrychair
(8,678 posts)Trying to illegally seize land in Oregon.
Volaris
(10,266 posts)If the bundys and their ilk haven't paid the taxes they owe, why in God's name does this Chafitz pos think they deserve this kind of Representation??
Can't our reps try to poison the steal, by affirming we will reclaim the land through eminent domain? That should tamp down enthusiasm for taking our land.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Just makes me sick to my stomach. They are land rapists.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)I hate to admit I liked in that ass-hat's district until just a couple of years ago. Felt like wearing a bag over my head the whole time.
world wide wally
(21,738 posts)Were you bored with no national crisis going on so you voted for Trump to start some?
Fucking brainless assholes
byronius
(7,391 posts)As well as any other possible penalties. This is a major social crime. Un-American. Seriously evil.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)smh.
CrispyQ
(36,422 posts)All so a few rich guys can make even more money.
JDC
(10,114 posts)Kablooie
(18,610 posts)Just goes to show that armed standoffs of federal officials is the way to go if you want something done in Washington nowadays.
GoCubsGo
(32,074 posts)Fucking fuckers.
packman
(16,296 posts)After all, it is just a big hole in the ground and you know Repukes like to fill those holes
pansypoo53219
(20,955 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,048 posts)ought to be illegal
This is a money grab pure and simple
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)they are getting what they voted for.