How will public lands fare from this election?

[elkduds]

Will the ongoing attacks against them turn to support (for now)?

 

[hank4elk]

I heard a lot of support for our Public Lands.
Clean water air and a right to more was front and center.

There will be serious ???'s looking for answers here on the instant building of data centers ,with no permits nor public input.
3 wells for that jupiter(Uranus) place on the border here with no permits or hearings. No open permit meetings.
Which public servants gave them the thumbs up?

Cant do that as a rancher or homeowner. Farmers have water cut and they gave them the okey doke.

 

[Treeshark]

Public land threats will be reduced fairly significantly but temporarily. My worry is the winners from last night may overplay their hand and lose badly in two years.

 

[Birdbander]

My concern is that the party you're counting on the protect public access to government owned land is the same party that wants to prevent you from using for hunting, fishing & trapping.
I also think @Treeshark has a good point that yesterday's winners will overplay.

Hopefully in another election cycle or two the pendulum will settle more in the middle.

 

[SaskHunter]

I also think @Treeshark has a good point that yesterday's winners will overplay.

Hopefully in another election cycle or two the pendulum will settle more in the middle.

If you want to see what sitting on your laurels and being cocky does, look at the last Canadian Federal election. Our Conservatives lost what should have been a landslide election by avoiding taking a stance on pretty much anything and assuming we would just elect them in. The Liberals ran with Mark Carney (our current PM) as their new leader and were aggressive in fighting back stupid attacks on our sovereignty (that worked).

One side thought they could win based on how bad and unpopular the sitting government was while the current government rebranded itself and ultimately won. Kind of like Trump V. Clinton.

I'm just hoping the mood in American politics settles down and that the economy improves. Not going to lie, being your neighbour has been tough the past couple years. I'm tired, man.

 

[Gellar]

While it is probably, hopefully, maybe a win against the divestiture of public land I fully anticipate attacks on them from other angles like large scale solar and wind farms. Any new openings of Federal land for hunting and fishing that the current regime has made are probably in jeopardy too.

 

[jryoung]

Public land threats will be reduced fairly significantly but temporarily. My worry is the winners from last night may overplay their hand and lose badly in two years.

So, typical midterm election cycle LOL