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Public Land Sale Senate Budget Reconciliation
baldopepper:
If you have relatives or friends in other states urge them to contact their reps..Doesn't mean much when a voter from Washington emails a senator in another state. Many states, particularly east of the rockies, could care less about land grabs in the west. Gotta get to some of the red states as all the Ds are already uniformly opposed to it
actionshooter:
--- Quote from: Skillet on June 18, 2025, 11:27:13 AM ---While I'm 100% against this land sale provision in the spending bill, full stop, I think we need to keep things in perspective.
The Outdoor Alliance maps show the total of 300 million acres that could be eligible for sale - but the bill only requires up to 3.3 million acres to be sold. About 1.1% of the total land that is eligible.
If your favorite place is in that 1.1% that ends up being sold, of course it's a devastating loss. Nearly all of my favorite places up here are on the chopping block, and we don't have nearly the user base to protect it that lower 48 states do. I'm very concerned.
But I think it's important to keep things in perspective. A lot of the conversation I'm hearing/seeing on this shows the map images, and assumes it will all be sold.
--- End quote ---
I agree that 1.1% doesn't sound like a bunch, but I think the real problem is that this sets a precedence and if they can do it once, they will do it a dozen times.
This public land is one of the things that seperates us from the majority of the countries and none of it should be sold.
MADMAX:
--- Quote from: actionshooter on June 18, 2025, 08:27:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: Skillet on June 18, 2025, 11:27:13 AM ---While I'm 100% against this land sale provision in the spending bill, full stop, I think we need to keep things in perspective.
The Outdoor Alliance maps show the total of 300 million acres that could be eligible for sale - but the bill only requires up to 3.3 million acres to be sold. About 1.1% of the total land that is eligible.
If your favorite place is in that 1.1% that ends up being sold, of course it's a devastating loss. Nearly all of my favorite places up here are on the chopping block, and we don't have nearly the user base to protect it that lower 48 states do. I'm very concerned.
But I think it's important to keep things in perspective. A lot of the conversation I'm hearing/seeing on this shows the map images, and assumes it will all be sold.
--- End quote ---
I agree that 1.1% doesn't sound like a bunch, but I think the real problem is that this sets a precedence and if they can do it once, they will do it a dozen times.
This public land is one of the things that seperates us from the majority of the countries and none of it should be sold.
--- End quote ---
I’m glad the hiking community also gets involved like the Sierra club
https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2025/06/don-t-buy-administration-s-plans-public-lands
baldopepper:
Sure wish I could pick and choose 3.3 million acres off that map. Few hundred or thousand acres here and there could close off access to thousands more. Few thousand here and there could lock up prime hunting/fishing ground, or block off popular hiking trails. They throw out that number like it's no big deal, but that's still an incredible amount of land especially if divided up in in little prime pieces here and there
SWHUNTER:
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Josh Hawley (R-MO)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Jerry Moran (R-KS)
Rand Paul (R-KY)
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
Ron Johnson (R-WI)
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