Trump Administration May Sell Or Transfer Land Cut From Utah Monument

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

08/15/2018 03:54 pm ET

The Bureau of Land Management is considering the “disposal” of more than 1,600 acres that Trump stripped from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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By Chris D’Angelo



BOB STRONG / REUTERS

The Trump administration is eyeing the transfer or sale of more than 1,600 acres of federal land that until recently were part of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, according to a draft resource management plan published Wednesday.

The 1,610 acres “identified for disposal” in the draft Bureau of Land Management plan includes 16 parcels ranging in size from 8.5 to 591.6 acres. They are among the more than 850,000 acres that President Donald Trump stripped from Grand Staircase-Escalante late last year.

The proposed land transfer is significant considering Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke have repeatedly said they oppose selling off federal lands. In fact, it was over this very issue that Zinke — a former Montana congressman — resigned as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2016. In a speech one day after arriving at his new post, Zinke promised Interior Department staff: “You can hear it from my lips: We will not sell or transfer public land.”

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“There’s not one square inch, not one square inch, of land that is removed from federal protection,” Zinke told Fox Business in December.


Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-utah-monument-zinke-bureau-land-management_us_5b747c21e4b0df9b093ba50e

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Another Republican liar.....surprise.

[ProudLib72]

2. He's not doing shit to that park!!!!!!!!

[secondwind]

3. hear, hear...!!! we need to FIGHT THIS all the way!

[lapfog_1]

4. we should start a gofundme nonprofit to buy these lands and hold them as is

until reasonable leadership returns to the US... and then donate the lands back to the national park service.

[Delmette2.0]

6. I'll donate!

[Nitram]

13. Me too.

[Midnight Writer]

5. 1600 acres. That's very specific. I wonder which Trump crony has his eyes on this parcel.

[William Seger]

8. Maybe we'll know eventually; these people are too dumb to cover their tracks

[spike jones]

7. Selling public land was part of the RNC 2016 platform.

Turn federal lands over to states. “Congress should give authority to state regulators to manage energy resources on federally controlled public lands within their respective borders,” the platform declares. The federal government controls huge swaths of land in the West and already leases much of it for oil, gas, and coal extraction. The platform is quite open about the fact that Republicans think states will extract more rapaciously. That’s precisely the point. And ultimately they want the land entirely under state control: “Congress shall immediately pass universal legislation providing for a timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to states.” It’s unclear which lands they are talking about, but it’s a safe bet that they mean those that could generate the most money through their despoiling.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/07/republican-platform-environment-cleveland/

[McCamy Taylor]

10. No, no. They don't want the states to get the bribe money. Trump wants all the bribe money.

Trump will personally sell off our nation's assets.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Jared Kushner will get a hefty "commission", I am sure.

Trump would probably sell the White House--if the bribe money was right.

[YOHABLO]

11. gas and oil .. the sons of bitches pray at the alter of money. we must conquer them.

[Nitram]

12. Fucking barbarians!

[bluestarone]

14. EVERY FUCKING DAY!!!!

I hate these fuckers more and more!!! They have to be STOPPED!!! I just hope if they do what they intend to do, that it can ALL BE UNDONE by some PEOPLE THAT DO CARE!!!!!!!!

[DeminPennswoods]

15. Is this where Zinke's bar is going?

Would not suprise me one bit that it's more grifters grifting.

[Bayard]

16. Public Lands!

We The People, strongly protest selling off our heritage.

And the BLM has always been corrupt. Just witness what they did with Native American lands.

[MissMillie]

17. Make America Great Again (n/t)

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