According to Trout Unlimited CEO and President Chris Wood, “Media reports that legislators are thinking about the sale of public lands to assist spend for a spending plan reconciliation costs are incredibly uncomfortable.” Outdoor Life publication reports, “Congress is supposedly thinking about sweeping public-land sales as part of the federal budget plan reconciliation procedure in pursuit of the Trump Administration’s objective to discover $10 trillion in both income generation and expense savings.”
Wood’s declaration continues, ” Public lands are the yard of the little guy, however if we offer our public lands to the greatest bidder, they will end up being the play ground of the rich. We thank Agents Ryan Zinke (R-MT) and Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) for their bipartisan management in presenting the general public Lands in Public Hands Act. This costs will defend against these kinds of ham-handed plans to offer America’s public lands. We ask their associates in Congress to sign up with hunters and anglers throughout the nation to oppose selling our public lands.”
Trout Unlimited has actually established a basic Act page to assist you make your voice heard. You can sign a petition requiring “decision-makers to maintain our public lands tradition by highly opposing any effort to offer, privatize, or otherwise deal with public lands.”
Click here to Make Your Voice Heard and to Protect Public Lands
