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Public Land Sale Senate Budget Reconciliation
blusc21:
Im heart broken. Every spot I hunt annualy would be sold. These are places my grandpa went to hunt before shipping off to shoot Nazis and never touched a gun again.... though he still was hell on the trout population after the war. The place i shot my first deer would be sold.
Selling off public land for a short term budget bump is crazy. The bill MANDATES these lands are sold, so the could just be bought up by rish *censored*s from out of state that want their own hunting mountain.
Im emailing my representatives, and ones that may listen in other states.
pickardjw:
--- Quote from: blusc21 on June 18, 2025, 08:24:40 AM ---Im heart broken. Every spot I hunt annualy would be sold.
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How do you know that?
Feathernfurr:
--- Quote from: hunter399 on June 18, 2025, 08:21:55 AM ---Where are all the anti-hunting folks at on issues like this.
You would think all the dot.org people,would be all over it .
They are selling off a lot of habitat,why didn't our senators get our state off the list .
Stupid.
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I mean you say that, but honestly when I google the issue to find the latest information, most of the websites I find info on are hiking and environmental websites and forums, not hunting/fishing pages. I’d argue the environmental community does a lot more than our hunting community does to protect public lands. We hunters are notoriously quiet when it comes to speaking up.
James:
https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/conservation/public-lands-and-waters/map-of-public-lands-for-sale-budget-bill
I hope this map is wrong, because this would be catastrophic.
The BLM land is bad enough, lots of big game winter range and bird hunting, but the forest service land in nuts.
Good by Methow and Chelan mule deer herds.
Skillet:
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.
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