Public Land Issues in Wyoming

SOLD!

Lummis, Barrasso and Hageman want to keep you from hunting with your daughter, from hiking with your family, fishing with your son, using your ATV or snowmobile. They want to sell your public lands.

Hageman then voted in the Natural Resources  committee approved the amendment.

Most of the proposed land sales or  exchanges appear to be aimed at building affordable housing on U.S.  Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land outside Las Vegas and  Reno, Nevada and in fast growing southwestern Utah around the tourist  town of St. George, Utah.

"Many of the difficulties we face at a local level are of course  related to the fact that the county is surrounded by federal land," said  Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-Utah).

Maloy is  related to the rancher Cliven Bundy, whose family led armed standoffs  over control of federal land in Nevada and Oregon.

"Congress  is considering selling off our public lands to pay for tax cuts to the  wealthy," said Tracy Stone-Manning, president of the Wilderness Society.  "What we're seeing from this administration is no balance at all."

The amendment that passed late Tuesday authorizing the sale of federal land in Nevada and Utah still faces a full House vote.

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Want to know more? Check out these resources:

Click here  for Backcountry Hunters & Anglers.

Click here for Advocates for Multi-use of Public Lands

Click here for Utah State Attorney General

Click here for the Albany County Democrats platform, p. 8

Click here for the Wyoming State Republican Platform, 19. Water and Land Rights.

Click here for the Wyoming Outdoor Council.

Click here for the Trust for Public Lands - Wyoming.

Click here for the Nature Conservancy - Wyoming.

Click here for the Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Click here for the Wyoming Wildlife Advocates.

Click here for the Defenders of Wildlife.

Click here for Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.