Public lands for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package

[TGK]

Interactive map at link regarding federal land identified as eligible for sale in the GOP budget reconciliation package. Article dated June 13. I used the interactive map link to zoom into “eligible” land in Oregon, which is what I am most familiar with. The way I read it, they are not suggesting all of it is for sale, but areas they would try to sell fall within the highlighted areas. However, I put absolutely nothing past them. It’s the camel getting it’s nose into the tent. Since this is part of a “reconciliation” package, it is easier to push through. Sobering to say the least. In a week we are coming up on 6 months of their controlling all 3 branches of the government. This is all part of a blitzkrieg to deconstruct the federal government.

Public lands for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package

 

[AWG_Pics]

This makes me sick. Not since the Grant administration has greed and corruption had such a free hand with public lands.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Folks, if you want to keep our public lands out of private hands, contact your senators and let them know your thoughts.

 

[AWG_Pics]

Folks, if you want to keep our public lands out of private hands, contact your senators and let them know your thoughts.

Done.

 

[teledork]

When I look at the map almost all of the Forest Service and BLM land in the Eastern Sierra that is not in designated wilderness is "eligible" for sale. Mono Basin - all except the state owned land - for sale. All of the campgrounds on the June Lake loop and the ski area. Hey! Alterra could buy it and put their "village" in that marsh on the west shore of Gull Lake which is also for sale. I figure any wetland conservation is also headed to the dung heap. The cabins along Silver Lake? Leased land, up for sale. Virginia Lakes (except for what is already private) same with Twin Lakes. In fact just about EVERY campground in Mono County except those right in Mammoth would be up for sale. (edit to add: one might say that the forest service campgrounds were given into private hands years ago for "management")

I look at the hill above my house (BLM) and the first question is why would anyone buy it except to extract something from it - if such something exists. It is not buildable. I can attest to the fact that it is steep enough for an excellent ski run but only has adequate snow once in ten years. It is probably not workable unless you just blow the thing to smithereens. The same goes for a lot, but not all of the land that is eligible.

Here are a few places that could become private:

Stockade Flat

Obsidian Campground

Secret Lake (which has the misfortune of being just outside the wilderness boundary)
This one in particular IS a hill I'd die on. I'm glad I'm not young.

 

[teledork]

Wanna buy some cracks? Black Point, on the north shore of Mono Lake - for sale. This would likely be mined for the cinders.

 

[teledork]

Adobe Valley and the Glass Mountains - for sale

The Bodie Hills - sold for gold mining ( not hard rock mining - this would be cyanide heap leached)

Eyeball Lake on the northern flank of Mt Dunderberg - 14 Luxury Vacation Homes starting at only $5,000,000!

The Sweetwater Mountains on the border of California and Nevada - all for sale

 

[AWG_Pics]

The Utah sponsored provision to sell public land is probably dead in the Senate Bill: UPDATE AT 5:10 P.M.: Crapo joining Risch in opposition to sell-off of ...

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Very beautiful places worth keeping PUBLIC.
Frank

 

[AWG_Pics]

I wrote to my Oregon Senators, but also wrote to Senator Lee of Utah:
"
Dear Senator Lee,
Please do not support any effort to sell public lands. Though I am not a Utah resident, I was raised in Brigham City and access to public lands was a very important part of my development as a young man. I have since lived in Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon. In that time I have explored and recreated in public lands of those states as well as Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and above all Utah. We have, over the last five years of retirement, spent a cumulative year or more in Utah. That time has been in the western deserts from Box Elder County all the way south to the St George area as well as extensive time near Kanab, the Henry Mountains, Blanding, Bluff and up towards Moab. Selling off any of these lands would be not only a tragedy today, but an impoverishment of future generations.
Thanks to you and your staff for accepting my comments.
Sincerely
Anthony Grover
"

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Perhaps a bit of good news

• Parliamentarian ruling: The Senate parliamentarian ruled against the mandatory sale of federal public land provisions in the bill, stating they violated the Byrd Rule. This means the provision would require 60 votes to overcome a point-of-order objection and would likely be removed from the bill, as Senate Republican leaders have indicated they would not try to overturn the ruling.

 

[JWL]

Done

 

[h2opup]

This appears to be trending in the right direction, but there is the possibility that Utah will continue in its efforts and reintroduce the sale of public lands in another bill soon.

We should stay vigilant and follow AWG's lead to reach out directly to the Utah Senator expressing out views.

 

[AWG_Pics]

So far so good: Mike Lee pulls public lands sale from Trump tax bill

Senator Lee should read John Wesley Powell's "Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States : with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah : with Maps / by J.W. Powell. (1879)".

146 years ago it was well understood that federal ownership is not just 'nice', it is necessary to support human activities in the west. It is not Ohio where a bucolic vision of families living on their little bit of land could be realized. The American west is a hard land, prone to indifference to human perils. A harsh beauty, worth fighting for.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Keep the wild wild.
Frank

 

[GVWRLOL]

I won't lie, I've been looking. Everything around here would require more work than it's worth unless you already own a dozer and some dynamite
I'd definitely snatch up some land though, it might be my only chance.