Newest US Senate Land Sale Amendment

[SAJ-99]

Fuggin' idgits.

I disagree. They know they have the power and how to wield it. They only spend their time trying to find out how to justify their votes to voters. The move to exclude MT gives them some leverage. At the end of the day, they know the vast majority of Amercians (and certainly those in MT) are not going to change their vote come next election cycle. I met Daines 10yrs ago found him to be a typical politician following the party line. His history has supported my view. I am hoping he has grown a pair with the experience and he has the courage to prove me wrong.

My emails were sent yesterday. I suggest sending to Senators and Reps. I am losing faith in Americans as they have become politically exhausted in last 5 months, but I hope there is still some fight left in the dog.

 

[longbow51]

I emailed both and got rapid responses; Sheehy's was a bit more personalized to my request, Daines more about public land in general. We'll see.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

I emailed both and got rapid responses; Sheehy's was a bit more personalized to my request, Daines more about public land in general. We'll see.

I only got a response from Daines so far. Not exactly encouraging . . .

 

[Bowmannate2000]

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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the voice for our wild public lands, waters and wildlife.

www.backcountryhunters.org

Really easy to send this. A few clicks by a lot people can make a difference.

Thanks for sharing this link.

 

[Chama Grande]

Public land is a 'hill worth dying over'. I hope some of our representatives feel the same

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

We'll see if any of the SD folks send back in this one.

Last time my rep, dusty, sent a canned email back which was in no way related to what I was conveying. Makes me think they don't even read the emails, or just assume it aligns with what they're trying to do anyway...

 

[El Jason]

You folks with R senators better put your money where your mouth is on this one.

 

[Big Fin]

Been on calls all morning.

Most of what I am hearing is that Mike Lee cooked this up mostly by himself. He is a very difficult guy according to everyone who has to work with him. Most are surmising that he hopes to put the Montana delegation in a box by exempting Montana.

Some are saying Lee's actions will not survive some of the parliamentary rules in the Senate. And that some of his stuff might not survive the "Byrd Rule" due it being so far outside the norm of what is usually included in a budget bill.

If anyone is from Utah, I hope they are hammering Lee on this. This is all of his making. Nobody in either party on the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee asked for any of this.

 

[VMHunter]

Been on calls all morning.

Most of what I am hearing is that Mike Lee cooked this up mostly by himself. He is a very difficult guy according to everyone who has to work with him. Most are surmising that he hopes to put the Montana delegation in a box by exempting Montana.

Some are saying Lee's actions will not survive some of the parliamentary rules in the Senate. And that some of his stuff might not survive the "Byrd Rule" due it being so far outside the norm of what is usually included in a budget bill.

If anyone is from Utah, I hope they are hammering Lee on this. This is all of his making. Nobody in either party on the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee asked for any of this.

Thanks for your efforts on this!

 

[brymoore]

Been on calls all morning.

Most of what I am hearing is that Mike Lee cooked this up mostly by himself. He is a very difficult guy according to everyone who has to work with him. Most are surmising that he hopes to put the Montana delegation in a box by exempting Montana.

Some are saying Lee's actions will not survive some of the parliamentary rules in the Senate. And that some of his stuff might not survive the "Byrd Rule" due it being so far outside the norm of what is usually included in a budget bill.

If anyone is from Utah, I hope they are hammering Lee on this. This is all of his making. Nobody in either party on the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee asked for any of this.

I hope your analysis is right Randy!

 

[Matthew57]

Been on calls all morning.

Most of what I am hearing is that Mike Lee cooked this up mostly by himself. He is a very difficult guy according to everyone who has to work with him. Most are surmising that he hopes to put the Montana delegation in a box by exempting Montana.

Some are saying Lee's actions will not survive some of the parliamentary rules in the Senate. And that some of his stuff might not survive the "Byrd Rule" due it being so far outside the norm of what is usually included in a budget bill.

If anyone is from Utah, I hope they are hammering Lee on this. This is all of his making. Nobody in either party on the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee asked for any of this.

Thanks for the update Randy. Given that insight i'm going to continue to hammer my reps on the issue in the hopes they never want to work with the guy.

 

[eshunt]

Been on calls all morning.

Most of what I am hearing is that Mike Lee cooked this up mostly by himself. He is a very difficult guy according to everyone who has to work with him. Most are surmising that he hopes to put the Montana delegation in a box by exempting Montana.

Some are saying Lee's actions will not survive some of the parliamentary rules in the Senate. And that some of his stuff might not survive the "Byrd Rule" due it being so far outside the norm of what is usually included in a budget bill.

If anyone is from Utah, I hope they are hammering Lee on this. This is all of his making. Nobody in either party on the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee asked for any of this.

Being from Nevada, and knowing that a lot of the land that he is proposing for disposition is in NV, are there any of the people here that I can contact directly? I have already emailed all the senators in NV. Any type of wording to use in further emails regarding language to reference? I would like to keep reminding my representatives that this is not a proposal that myself or a majority of nevadans would support.

Thanks

 

[Big Fin]

Being from Nevada, and knowing that a lot of the land that he is proposing for disposition is in NV, are there any of the people here that I can contact directly? I have already emailed all the senators in NV. Any type of wording to use in further emails regarding language to reference? I would like to keep reminding my representatives that this is not a proposal that myself or a majority of nevadans would support.

Thanks

Your Nevada Senators are most important at this time.

The easy reminder is this:

We already have protocols for identification and disposal of Federal lands under the Federal Land Transfer Facilitation Act and the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act. Those Acts were years in the making and reflect a compromise that has worked for over two decades. Senator Lee's changes completely disregard these long-standing processes for land disposal. His proposal benefits very few, at the expense of all Americans.

 

[eshunt]

Your Nevada Senators are most important at this time.

The easy reminder is this:

We already have protocols for identification and disposal of Federal lands under the Federal Land Transfer Facilitation Act and the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act. Those Acts were years in the making and reflect a compromise that has worked for over two decades. Senator Lee's changes completely disregard these long-standing processes for land disposal. His proposal benefits very few, at the expense of all Americans.

Thank you for this. I will respond yet again to my senators with this language in my response.

 

[mtlilguy]

Isolated tracts that are inefficient to manage (I would like to know what this means)

The same government forms, processes, environmental reviews, regulatory requirements and time requirements have to be completed by federal land managers whether it is 40 acres or 4,000 acres. Their management decision space and area where they can effect change is that 40 acres in the middle of acres and acres of private land.

An area with a lot of scattered, inaccessible 40 acre parcels eats up land managers time with regulatory requirements when they could direct that attention and resources to maintaining or improving larger blocks of BLM. Landscape versus postage stamp.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Not sure Don Jr. relies on public land. But, for the sake of hunting he should support it.

I’m in Texas with pretty much no public land. You don’t want this.

I’m still emailing my congressmen even though I know how they’ll vote.

He couldn't care less about public land.

 

[Big Fin]

I've been told all four members of the Montana delegation are working on the response to this, not just the Montana Senators. I hope it sends Lee into a tizzy.

 

[Gerald Martin]

Going about my business at work, thinking about how cool it would be to give a certain Senator from Utah a guided tour and back country camping experience in a couple of local drainages with a high saturation level of grizzly bears. As the guest of honor he would be gifted with bacon pants as his hiking outfit and a bacon sleeping bag for the overnight camp out.

 

[rogerthat]

Where is Don Jr. when we need him?

Pounding out crypto deals….duh

 

[Forkyfinder]

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Notably. Montana was left out. Better not be horse trading from our MT delegation.