It seems mike lee is a big proponent of selling off the land...
which would likely get bought by hedge funds and equity firms, not individuals...
who would then lock it up for themselves or developement.
I would like more lands open up for use, but not for sale like this.
You would not believe how many calls and mailers I get weekly to sell my lots and my own home.
Vultures.
> I would like more lands open up for use, but not for sale like this. <
Bingo. If the land is truly something special (a national treasure), rent out the mineral and logging rights. And demand good stewardship. But do not sell it.
I agree with your take on the issue.
“I would like more lands open up for use, but not for sale like this.”
Reauthorize the Homestead Act that allowed individuals to settle on defined plots of surplus government land. If they lived on it, and improved it, they could acquire title to it.
Make the land grants small, limit them to individuals, require the individuals to live on the property for a defined period of time, and require improvements to be made. Also require American citizenship. Possibly also include a minimum number of years before the land can be sold. These restrictions will keep out the foreign companies, hedge funds and billionaires like Bill Gates.
Thats probably why it is on the table. The hedgefunds want the land.
Yup, the elite would buy it for themselves and it would be lost to public use forever. And the best spots at that.
That’s horrible legislation. Those lands are used by Westerners to hike, hunt, fish, shoot, off-road, mine, camp and so much more. It’s not right that those public lands, used for decades by everyone, will now be sold off to light us like Larry Ellison, who will gate everything off and shut all the roads and trails down to public use.
It’s horrifying, how much this single bill will destroy recreation in the West!
If I recall correctly, Lee is also one of the major proponents of the H1B Program, and pushed a huge increase in the numbers of foreign workers brought into the US.