**conservation alert** Bush plans public land sell off!

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com (news section)

As part of his "budget reducing proposal", Bush ahs authorized the sell off of our nations public lands. $100,000 per minute of the IRaq war, but we can't afford to keep our national treasures?



"Washington - President Bush wants to sell more public land across the West to raise money for schools, conservation and deficit reduction.

Bush's proposed 2007 federal budget, sent to Congress on Monday, calls for granting the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management new authority to sell off land. Those agencies together control hundreds of millions of acres in Western states.

Democrats and environmentalists compare the idea to recent proposals by Tom Tancredo and other Republicans in Congress to sell federal land to pay for hurricane relief and invigorate the mining industry.

Dave Alberswerth of the Wilderness Society dubbed the new sell-off proposal "a billion-dollar privatization program."

[fooj]

1. WTF? When will enough be enough?

Peace.

[havocmom]

2. Never will. That is why they have to be stopped

They sure as hell won't give up stealing the nation blind on their own.

[montana500]

3. as long as they control things, it will always be this way

very important issue.

[montana500]

4. story to important to sink.

nmm

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Sell for pennies on the dollar of course