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Protect our public lands : link

i emailed the oregon, california and idaho senators last week. was like “i spend money in your state because these lands are there to play on.” i was gonna get to washington and nevada this week.
 
This is a great source. Yes it’s political, but the thread does not have to get ugly.

https://hcn858.activehosted.com/ind...b9.1827&s=d70fd00e012c97807caf9c8497fe2c51The dismantling of the Forest Service​

In the 1880s, giant cattle companies turned thousands of cattle out to graze on the “public domain” — i.e., the Western lands that had been stolen from Indigenous people and then opened up for white settlement. In remote southeastern Utah, this coincided with a wave of settlement by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The region’s once-abundant grasslands and lush mountain slopes were soon reduced to denuded wastelands etched with deep flash-flood-prone gullies. Cattlemen fought, sometimes violently, over water and range.

The local citizenry grew sick and tired of it, sometimes literally: At one point, sheep feces contaminated the water supply of the town of Monticello and led to a typhoid outbreak that killed 11 people. Yet there was little they could do, since there were few rules on the public domain and fewer folks with the power to enforce them.

That changed in 1891, when Congress passed the Forest Reserve Act, which authorized the president to place some unregulated tracts under “judicious control,” thereby mildly restraining extractive activities in the name of conservation…
 
Thank you But h.
FEIW the selling off of public lands is fast approaching front and center again.
 
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