Dept of Interior Looking To Sell Public Lands

[Hilljackoutlaw]

And for anyone on here who thinks sending letters to officials doesn't matter or move the needle your wrong. 100s of letters doesn't really move the needle, but 1000s do. There is not a single person active on this forum who should have an excuse for not writing their elected officials.

 

[Wildabeest]

This document would make sense to me if GOP won the midterms: Quiet on public land sales -> wins election -> liquidate lands over the next two years.

Except they lost their majority, so they’re going to sell parcels in the next six weeks? Or incoming Congress can’t stop DOI from selling lands? If they can’t, what is the point in contacting the incoming class of legislators?

I’m lost. There is a very specific strategy in releasing the document at this specific hour but I don’t see what it is.

Trump would rather pick a fight than fight a fight. It’s all about attention and bluster for him. The defeat in the elections has bruised his inflated and hyper-sensitive ego, so he feels the need to have public responses like this to say f-u to those who oppose him.

 

[Oak]

I surprisingly haven’t seen anything mentioned here yet (may have missed it), but somebody with more time than me needs to speak on how BAAJA fits into all this. Because if it passes, there will be little recourse for many of the things the R’s want to cram through on our public lands in the next two years. Think permit giveaways for data centers on public land, etc. I don’t understand why Heinrich has hitched his wagon to this deal.