250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package

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[UPDATED 6/16] Summary & Analysis of SENR Reconciliation Bill Text

The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee budget reconciliation bill text released June 11, and updated June 14, includes a range of extraordinary giveaways aimed at privatizing public lands and advancing energy dominance at the expense of public lands and resources.
Key takeaways on the public lands sell-off title:

The bill forces the arbitrary sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in 11 Western states over the next five years, and it gives the secretaries of the interior and agriculture broad discretion to choose which places should be sold off.

Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/media-resources/250-million-acres-public-lands-eligible-sale-senr-budget-reconciliation-package


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[jeffreyi]

1. For some reason this issue does not get much traction here on DU.

I've posted about it a couple times, without receiving much of a response.
I guess this is the wrong audience.

Here is a link to Outdoor Alliance, to contact our Senators.

https://action.outdooralliance.org/a/reconciliation-senate/?ms=popup

[maxsolomon]

4. It's astoundingly sad and short-sighted.

But of a piece with the anti-gubmint approach of the welfare-rancher interior west and their interior west senators and reps. Absolute hostility to federal land management from ID, MT, UT, and WY.

This being a reconciliation bill, there is little recourse to stop these sales.

As to the "wrong audience" lack of response, maybe DU is just so, so tired from the mountain of shit falling on us every day. This provision gets buried.

[Bayard]

2. I really, truly hate this man

Does anyone think this land won't be snapped up by big ranchers, developers, and oil/gas?

It also looks like most of the land is in states that vote blue. Not a coincidence.

Then there's this:

"The bill sets up relatively under-resourced state and local governments to lose open bidding wars to well-heeled commercial interests. It also fails to give sovereign Tribal Nations the right of first refusal to bid on lands, even for areas that are a part of their traditional homelands or contain sacred sites."

Its all about greed and spite.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. It's not a Homestead Act

It's the corporate greed cycle.