What the enviro-wackos have done to our timber industry (includng the closing of mills) is a disgrace. What they have done to fuel forest fires is even worse.
Meanwhile, lumber imports and prices from Canada are at an all-time high.
WIth few exeptions (National Park type properties), the national forests should be privatized to pay off the national debt or turned over to their respective states. There is no logical reason why the Federal Government should own roughly 70% of the land in Idaho and 95% of the land in Alaska.
Some counties are 95 to 99 percent federal lands.
With the old Clinton ‘ no new roads ‘ agenda...many historical existing roads have been closed.
They own 87% of the land in Arizona too. Guess how much they own in Texas? Not much; I’d bet it’s less than 5%.
F#$% that ... just reactivate the Homestead act and give the land back to the citizens.
BLM lands are even more extensive than the National Forests. Agreed, the federal govt should turn over all lands except the National Parks and some related National Monuments, etc. to the statesand/or sell off all lands that do not meet a very strict standard for permanent preservation.
It’s ridiculous how vast the BLM lands are and why do the feds still have any role at all with those???
Also, reverse the appalling and stooopid Clintonista decision to create the vast Grand Staircase Escalante Nat’l Monument!!! 1.8 MILLION acres set aside from all useful purposes to satisfy Clintonista political agendas and envirowhackjob idiocy.