[FocusNexus]

And this is just the beginning...

[FocusNexus]

Under bill, giant chunks of California stay wild

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/15/MNO215B3BA.DTL

The Senate approved a major expansion of wilderness areas nationwide Thursday, protecting more than 2 million acres of public land from drilling, logging and mining, including 735,000 acres across California.

The 73-to-21 vote was a huge victory for conservationists, who convinced Senate leaders to roll 160 wilderness bills into one giant package. The bill would permanently protect lands in nine states, from the Eastern Sierra Nevada in California to Oregon’s Mount Hood and from Utah’s Zion National Park to the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia.

[henkster]

A nation rich in resources refuses to use them....

In the coming century, Chinese historians writing about the fall of America will all ask: “What were they thinking? Were they even thinking at all?”

Then they will laugh. Around the world, we will no longer be despised as “ugly Americans.” We will be ridiculed as “stupid Americans.”

[lonestar67]

It is a pro terrorism bill because it insures that domestic drilling and mining is limited and more oil is imported from radical middle east states.

[Postman]

Who were the republican Quislings who voted for this monstrozity?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Hopefully the folks in the North(NE) enjoy the cost of their

Home Heating Oil!!!

NEXT winter is gunna be tuff on them...

[Carry_Okie]

The Senate on Thursday approved a sweeping conservation measure as it tries to reverse years of rollbacks in environmental protection by the administration of outgoing President George W. Bush.

What rollbacks? There weren't any.

[shield]

Barack Obama is set to sign it into law after he is sworn in as president on Tuesday, one of the first moves in what is likely to be a more aggressive approach toward the environment.

It will not be legal...any law the man signs is not legal.

[El Gato]

And this is just the beginning...

Yes it is, and I've already got near permanent knot in my gut, and a splitting headache.

A little range time would probably help me relax a bit.

[Myrddin]

Wilderness means the federal government is seizing the land and placing off limits to all human access. In states like Idaho, the federal government controls most of the land. That land is unavailable for economic development or generation of a tax base. A nominal "Payment In Lieu of Taxes" is paid on some of the land to offset the tax revenue damage to the states.

[berdie]

later

[fella]

Any time that the congress critters roll more than one bill together and do so speedily it is not just bad law it is horrible law. We won't find out what is buried in this hobgoblin of a law until long after it is to late to repair the harm it will cause.

[marsh2]

Just call it the “let it all burn” bill. They try not to do anything un-natural in Wilderness, like fight fires. One of the reasons more than 200,000 acres of forest burned in my County last summer.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Judging by the vote count, it was a bi-partisan butt-f***ing.

[big'ol_freeper]

Can’t you just hear the gears of enterprise grinding to a halt?

[meyer]

"The Senate on Thursday approved a sweeping conservation measure as it tries to reverse years of rollbacks in environmental protection by the administration of outgoing President George W. Bush."

"Years of rollbacks?" What rollbacks? If anything, the Republicans continued the growth of the environazi movement. They SHOULD have defunded the EPA and spoke out against the myth of global warming but most remained silent or actually embraced the continuing BS (Newt and Pelosi, e.g.).

Oh well, it's irrelevant now - this country's finished. Game over!

[TChris]

Supply and demand.

Sharply reduced supply of available land with continued growing demand --> Sharply increasing land prices.

Of course, when the price of land skyrockets, landowners will be immediately hated by the Left for their unconscionable greed.

To the ignorant, basic economic laws are scary voodoo.