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The public almost always gets screwed on these transfers of public land to private interests. Please contact all your Congressional delegation and oppose this bill by Sen. Crapo that will greatly reduce access to public lands that are great hunting and fishing.
"On Aug. 3, 2006, Sen. Mike Crapo dropped into the congressional hopper his Owyhee Initiative Implementation Act of 2006 (S. 3794) that provides for a complicated set of actions including the designation of wilderness and wild and scenic rivers in Owyhee County. In return Owyhee County and a very few ranchers have demanded and received a number of unprecedented federal handouts approved by Crapo and endorsed by Gov. Jim Risch that will greatly reduce public involvement in the management of public lands in Owyhee County.
One of those extraordinary handouts was not revealed until a meeting in Boise on Aug. 29 when a document titled Land Exchanges And Acquisitions was made public. That document revealed for the first time that over 75,000 acres of public land in Owyhee County could be privatized to a handful of Owyhee County ranchers for about 2,600 acres of their private land for which the ranchers, themselves, have been allowed to provide a value per acre that may well exceed any market value by factors ranging up to 20 times.
"On Aug. 3, 2006, Sen. Mike Crapo dropped into the congressional hopper his Owyhee Initiative Implementation Act of 2006 (S. 3794) that provides for a complicated set of actions including the designation of wilderness and wild and scenic rivers in Owyhee County. In return Owyhee County and a very few ranchers have demanded and received a number of unprecedented federal handouts approved by Crapo and endorsed by Gov. Jim Risch that will greatly reduce public involvement in the management of public lands in Owyhee County.
One of those extraordinary handouts was not revealed until a meeting in Boise on Aug. 29 when a document titled Land Exchanges And Acquisitions was made public. That document revealed for the first time that over 75,000 acres of public land in Owyhee County could be privatized to a handful of Owyhee County ranchers for about 2,600 acres of their private land for which the ranchers, themselves, have been allowed to provide a value per acre that may well exceed any market value by factors ranging up to 20 times.
