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| Yet another land grab by congress and big government |
| 2019-02-23 |
| [Daily Caller] A lengthy public lands package sitting in Congress adds hundreds of thousands of acres of federally protected wilderness without securing funding to manage it. The House is preparing to vote on a bipartisan land package next week that is roughly 660 pages and composed of 118 different bills. The Senate version passed its version, the most comprehensive land package in a decade, on Feb. 12 in a 92 to 8 vote. "It touches every state, features the input of a wide coalition of our colleagues, and has earned the support of a broad, diverse coalition of many advocates for public lands, economic development and conservation," Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, according to The Washington Post. The Senate package designates 1.3 million acres in California, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah as wilderness, the strictest form of federal protection that bans development of almost any kind as well as roads and most forms of motorized travel. It prohibits mineral development on 370,000 acres of land near two national parks in Montana and Washington state. The lands package designates three new national monuments ‐ two in Kentucky and one in Mississippi ‐ to be managed by the National Park Service (NPS) and classifies roughly 500 miles of river in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Oregon as wild, scenic or recreational. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 These same politicians are all the time calling for more affordable housing. Their solution seems to be to turn coastal California into one big slum that would still not be affordable. Meanwhile, there is all this land out there where housing could be developed that really would be affordable. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-02-23 12:18 |
| #4 500 miles of river, and in CONN, MASS, and ORE? isn't that nice. I wonder what ever happened to that river adjacent to the Gold King Mine that the EPA was, uh, rehabilitating? |
| Posted by: Cesare 2019-02-23 10:21 |
| #3 So Trump should sign an executive order: No additions to federal land until the border wall is completed. And veto whatever bills they try to attach the land grabs to. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-23 09:03 |
| #2 Typical leftist attitude. Gotta save the planet so you peasants have to get off this land so it can be kept for the king. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-02-23 08:31 |
| #1 Can't seem to get anything done on the Mexican border but they've got plenty of time to push through 118 multi-million acre land grab bills. Channel everyone toward the vast urban centers where control can be more easily exercised. Private land ownership is a myth. The planet suffers. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-02-23 03:29 |