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struggle4progress

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Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:07 AM Mar 2016

Idaho loves outdoors, so let’s hang on to access

BY JEFF BARNEY

... “I’ll tell you why people live in Idaho ... They live in Idaho because they love their public lands. ... They like their access to them for recreation, for hunting, for fishing” ...

“Let me tell you what happens when you sell those public lands. ... All of a sudden people can’t get to their favorite fishing hole or hunting grounds ... That’s a problem. That’s why we like our public lands” ...

Special interests .. have always wanted to privatize public lands — and in some cases have succeeded. Idaho has sold more than 1.5 million acres of land it received from the federal government. The public has lost access to the vast majority of it ...


http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article66062572.html

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Idaho loves outdoors, so let’s hang on to access (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2016 OP
k&R Thank for posting Mbrow Mar 2016 #1
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