12 states join Utah

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12 states get behind Utah’s lawsuit to take over millions of acres of federally-controlled land • Idaho Capital Sun

States, including Idaho, support Utah’s lawsuit that questions whether the BLM can hold onto millions acres of public land.

idahocapitalsun.com

 

[Matthew57]

Thanks for sharing. This is alarming, I don’t like it at all.

 

[p_ham]

There's been stirrings about this in NV too. Didn't see it listed in the article.

 

[hank4elk]

Full Cray Cray.

 

[ID_to_NV2012]

My county here in Nevada sent $50k to the Lands Council for their lawsuit. I am pissed and wish I had paid attention to the agenda leading up to the meeting where they supported it.

 

[hank4elk]

My county here in Nevada sent $50k to the Lands Council for their lawsuit. I am pissed and wish I had paid attention to the agenda leading up to the meeting where they supported it.

Check. Makes a difference starting with the county offices.
Lots on my "They Mean Well" but will do no good folks in my county.

 

[Beignet]

Surprised Montana's AG didn't hop on this opportunity. Guess it is and election year for him and he has designs on eventually running for governor, so he can't say the quiet part out loud.

 

[RuralMT]

Surprised Montana's AG didn't hop on this opportunity. Guess it is and election year for him and he has designs on eventually running for governor, so he can't say the quiet part out loud.

I suspect he'd be run out of Helena on a rail if he proposed it during an election year. I can't imagine such a proposal would go well in areas of the state like region 1 which are overwhelmingly public land. Let's hope I'm correct!

 

[Bighorner]

I am saddened by this as well.

The Wyoming office of State Lands is run by some really good people, but it is under staffed and has a dollar today and be darn with tomorrow.

Wyoming State Lands are home to the worst of the worst when it comes to oil and gas. Namely produced water evaporator ponds. You may have hunted antelope near one of these ponds. They typically have a Russian Thistle problem. The spray of the ponds in absolutely wrecking the soil. In our arrid environment, that soil will not leach these salts out for centuries.

The OSL typically dosent even on-site potential roads and wells or alteast not that I am aware of.

Anything near a town is a gun range full of shot up appliances and broken glass.

This year we burned through our two year wildland budget by August on year one.

We have outstanding people in our State Parks and the parks themselves are a blessing and extremely well managed.

Say what you will about FS and BLM management, but believe me, I could be a whole lot worse.

I know this plays well in the polls in red states, but as hunters we stand to loss one of the greatest resources of we have as Americans.

 

[Beignet]

I suspect he'd be run out of Helena on a rail if he proposed it during an election year. I can't imagine such a proposal would go well in areas of the state like region 1 which are overwhelmingly public land. Let's hope I'm correct!

I’m glad that Montanans have made public lands a third rail issue. I don’t doubt that plenty of our politicians are beyond sympathetic to this lawsuit and to land transfer in general. Heck, a good chunk of our statewide elected officials have had to walk back anti public land sentiments they expressed in the past.

I think we’re all pretty aware that land transfer isn’t a controversial issue in Utah, but curious to know if it is in other states in the Rockies the way it is in MT?

 

[morley.tyler]

Oh, f@ck off. How did I know that Raul Labrador was gonna be a Main Character in this story? This is a Cold Dead Hands issue for most western hunters and outdoors people.

Can we please talk about the Bull Moose Party for like 5 minutes?

• Keep your guns, but you're responsible for what happens with your gun.
• break up monopolies (Google, Amazon, Oil Companies)
• secure a border (I've never trusted those damn Canadians...)
• dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics
• let women have as much agency over their bodies as men do.

Sorry- I did not mean to get too politically crazy, but it's that time of year.