The Big Beautiful Public Lands Sell-Off

Drew McConville for The Center for American Progress:

Notably, the House of Representatives rejected a public lands sell-off proposal in their version of this bill after it provoked strong and notable opposition from Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) and other Republican officials. But bill text released by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on June 11—as well as amended bill text first published by Politico’s E&E Daily on June 17—contains sell-off language that’s substantially more expansive.

It’s all shit. It’s mind-numbingly infuriating and exhausting to no end. This endless barrage of proposals and orders to make life here in the US step by step worse. And so much of it is irreversible – like this this decisions would be.

The Outdoor Alliance has a map of all the proposed areas that might be on the chopping block. And yes, it would include the trails of my Beast of Big Creek trail race.