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Heather Cox Richardson 6/17/2025
FREE FOR ALL SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES MONUMENTS NEXT? PASS THE WORD CALL!!!!!!

Heather Cox Richardson 6/17/2025

FREE FOR ALL SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES MONUMENTS NEXT? PASS THE WORD CALL!!!N Also yesterday, outdoor journalist Wes Siler reported in Wes Siler’s Newsletter that while language inserted in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill requires the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of publicly owned land, an amendment authorizes the sale of 258 million acres more over the next five years. The amendment comes from the Sencte Energy and Natural Resources Committee and was written by Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Steve Daines (R-MT).

It includes Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands in 11 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. As Siler notes, while the measure does not currently include national monument lands, the Department of Justice under Trump is arguing that the president can revoke national monument protections. If it did so, that would make another 13.5 million acres available for purchase.

Siler notes the process for selling those lands calls for an enormous rush on sales, "“all without hearings, debate, or public input opportunities.”

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