Proposed sale of millions of acres of public land under GOP budget bill

[William]

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar...mpts-backlash/

Anyone else concerned about this?

[Oscar77]

No.......... but I plan on buying as much as I can.

[arbol]

40 acres and a mule.

-John

[Aloha_Shooter]

I want to read the bill for myself. I haven't trusted "The Hill" for years.

[Hummer]

I'm not sure but I think it's probably the typical hair-on-fire histrionics promoted across the leftist media and the environmental community. In many ways I'm connected to that community and am concerned that the proposed bill could be used inappropriately to offer public lands that should be protected for the public. But the bill cover only 3 million acres, and so much .gov land shouldn't be locked up and unproductive for society. Take for instance the huge tracts of BLM land on the west slope, much of it barren, some of it viable farmland, that can't be used productively. Three million acres is a drop in the bucket of the federal lands. Much reform needs to happen with these lands.

[DDT951]

It would be nice to be able to buy some at reasonable prices

[def90]

It would be nice to be able to buy some at reasonable prices

I have news for you, it will not be sold to regular old citizens, if anyone is behind this thinking that they finally just might be able to buy an acre in the woods to call their own they are greatly mistaken.. It will be sold to corporations or sold in large swaths to the highest bidder. The Waltons, Malones, Turners and Kroenkes of the world will be the beneficiaries.

[.455_Hunter]

I completely oppose the sale of vast tracts of public land used for recreation and conservation.

I completely support selling specific tracts of land that "make sense" due to nearby or surrounding utilization. A section of BLM that is surrounded by development and has little to no intrinsic value to the public, but could be highly useful to the local area for housing or other infrastructure.

[def90]

The Utah reps and senators have been trying to get this in to every budget bill that has come through in the last two decades. It gets voted out every time.

As for being concerned about it, eventually it may pass. As for what we can do about it, I'm pretty sure that none of the Colorado reps or senators both reps and dems are on board with this so there isn't really anyone for a concerned Coloradan to contact, they're already on your side.

[3beansalad]

The Fed already controls approximately 40% of all land in the US, I don't really have a problem with taking some of the land (and control) from them govt. I wonder how much each state controls beyond that... maybe this is cause for celebration.

I can see each state redistributing funds to purchasing land they can't afford.