Map of public lands to be sold under Senate Bill

[clearwater]

This is a map of the national public lands in 11 western states that could be sold under the Senate version of the BBB.

It's a huge amount of land. Much include important watersheds for city and agriculture. You can check and see if it is places you hunt or get your water, travel thru etc. Privately owned, this could greatly limit where everyone is allowed to not only recreate, cut firewood, forage, hunt etc, but could lock off remaining public lands to those uses.

Senate Reconciliation - National Public Lands Available for Sale

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[salmonchaser]

Yep, most of the area around us.

 

[Wolfshead]

We need to encourage everyone we can to contact our reps!
I’m from the northeast, but I certainly do not want this to become a thing
I pray that this does not go through

 

[clearwater]

Senators from Idaho opposed. Spokesman Review

 

[clearwater]

Looks like it has been pulled for now. Needed 60% of the senate for this type of legislation on this type of bill apparently.

A related order by Trump just came out to allow road construction, development and such on National Forest land in currently roadless areas. My Dad designed alot of the current forest roads in Idaho and Washington. As I remember, when the USFS contracted the building of roads, some of the cost was born by the logging company etc. However, the long term costs to keep them open were born by the taxpayer. Benefit to the public needs to be considered for the long term. While reducing fuel loads helps with fire prevention, not all logging operations have best practices for fire hazard reduction. Local input and government oversight of contracts is important.

 

[PJGunner]

I can just see major developers foaming at the mouth hoping some of that land becomes available so they can hopefully get it cheap and build more tacky houses and get richer. My dislike for developers goes a long, long way back when a certain developer sued to get the only shooting range available condemned.He then bought the land pennies on the dollar value and made multimillions of dollars building houses.
At that point, the only range open to the public was the one for the San Francisco police Dept. When the Coastside Club range was shut down, the City of San Francisco opened their range to the public on weekends. We had that for a couple of year until the late great Dianne Feinstein as mayor of San Francisco had it shut down for civilian use.
My shooting buddy in Winnemuca told me just about every place we used to hunt rabbits and coyotes is now wall to wall houses. The greed of some developed just makes me sick to my soul.
Paul B.