Senate vote public lands sale

[Poser]

The amount of mule deer and elk I saw on what would be eligible BLM land in 4th season this year was crazy. Just because it's within 5 miles of a population center doesn't mean it's disposable.

Those BLM blocks of scrub oak in the middle of farmland or development can be quite good during late seasons.

 

[Wheels]

Instead of giving away checkerboarded land as some here are willing to do, maybe our government could quit wasting money and start buying the land to open up those inaccessible tracts. They could invest some of the "entitlement" money on insider trading, seems to be pretty lucrative for our congress members.

 

[Gila]

Instead of giving away checkerboarded land as some here are willing to do, maybe our government could quit wasting money and start buying the land to open up those inaccessible tracts. They could invest some of the "entitlement" money on insider trading, seems to be pretty lucrative for our congress members.

Pay the land owners for public hunting access. Land owner tags are bad because outfitters get exclusive hunting on those private properties. If landowner tags are put into the public draw, states are letting landowners sell hunts on their property to valid public draw tag holders. Check out Infinite Outdoors. They also pay landowners who will allow hunters to cross private land in a checkerboard to get to public lands.. Last I heard they were not charging hunters for that crossing.

 

[CB4]

Mike Lee was on the Charlie Kirk show today. In it he said not all of the US governments land can be suitable for hiking, camping or recreating. It is only suitable for housing. This guy is a total idoit. How can it be used for a house but that very piece of dirt not be suitable to set up a tent or walk your dogs on.

 

[OKHunter84]

Response from Senator Lankford of Oklahoma. Probably not going to like this. Sounds like he also wants to sell land.

 

[IdahoBeav]

Mike Lee was on the Charlie Kirk show today. In it he said not all of the US governments land can be suitable for hiking, camping or recreating. It is only suitable for housing. This guy is a total idoit. How can it be used for a house but that very piece of dirt not be suitable to set up a tent or walk your dogs on.

People typically won't hike unless there is a trail, and I've never seen anyone hike through flat high desert sagebrush. They want some hills and scenery. There is a ton of BLM around cities that is never recreated on.

 

[Tourguide]

Build your affordable housing in the cities that have room, Detroit, LA, New York, Chicago etc.... they need more people

 

[Gila]

Mike Lee was on the Charlie Kirk show today. In it he said not all of the US governments land can be suitable for hiking, camping or recreating. It is only suitable for housing. This guy is a total idoit. How can it be used for a house but that very piece of dirt not be suitable to set up a tent or walk your dogs on.

Small villages and communities are putting up wind turbines and community solar….it works.

 

[Gila]

Build your affordable housing in the cities that have room, Detroit, LA, New York, Chicago etc.... they need more people

People are moving away from Albuquerque because there is no industrial growth and low job opportunity. There are planned communities that occupy hundreds of thousands of acres of already private lands that were planned 30 years ago. No building going on. All that land is just open range. Plenty of cattle leases on that open range. Good beef, I like it that way.

 

[IdahoBeav]

People are moving away from Albuquerque because there is no industrial growth and low job opportunity. There are planned communities that occupy hundreds of thousands of acres of already private lands that were planned 30 years ago. No building going on. All that land is just open range. Plenty of cattle leases on that open range. Good beef, I like it that way.

Sounds like a failure of local government

 

[Crowmangler]

Response from Senator Lankford of Oklahoma. Probably not going to like this. Sounds like he also wants to sell land.

No surprise here. He turned out to be one of the biggest open border sellouts in the entire senate. It boggles my mind how these deep red states have some of the worst senators when it comes to actually voting for what their constituents want

 

[Jason Snyder]

Agree to disagree, the FPMLA is bureaucracy at its finest.


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Then Senator Lee should work on addressing FPLMA instead.

 

[OKHunter84]

No surprise here. He turned out to be one of the biggest open border sellouts in the entire senate. It boggles my mind how these deep red states have some of the worst senators when it comes to actually voting for what their constituents want

I agree man. It's a sticky situation cause they don't get primaried and any other party has a snowballs chance in hell.

 

[abbrown]

Response from Senator Lankford of Oklahoma. Probably not going to like this. Sounds like he also wants to sell land.

I have received almost the exact same response from a number of congresspeople in different states. Clearly a canned response to quickly brush off the initial onslaught of messages. Respond to them and make it known canned responses and dismissals aren't enough. I've gotten more personable, open responses to the follow ups. Often annoying to find the right email to respond to to continue the conversation, but it's worth it - I've called three offices to ask for those follow up emails and they've given them.

 

[canyonhunter47]

I saw a X post on that the land proposal failed the Byrd review haven’t seen anything officially posted yet this morning with the latest batch of Byrd decisions.

SBR/Suppressor NFA removal up for Byrd review today

The Byrd rule giveth and the Byrd rule taketh away. I’d be surprised if complete removal from the NFA survives, but eliminating the tax might happen.

Is there a place to see what the rulings are as they come out?

 

[mtwarden]

Take this with a grain of salt, but

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/...es-out-public-land-sales-in-megabill-00419763

 

[Poser]

Take this with a grain of salt, but

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/...es-out-public-land-sales-in-megabill-00419763

I just heard the same. Hopefully its true.

 

[mtwarden]

It also said Lee is not done; he will change the language and try again.

 

[Fitzwho]

Just read the same thing. Appears that "as written" it violates chamber rules. Lee responded in the article I read (AP) saying that he will be removing USFS lands entirely from the bill and have wording that only BLM parcels that are "within 5 miles of population centers could be sold."

Not a great scenario, but better than it was. I think (unfortunately) that he will have a much easier time pushing a revised bill through with the above provisions. The problem is still that selling these lands to developers isn't going to help with housing affordability. At this point the only thing that is going to help with that is a reset of property values in many places. There are almost 8,000 homes for sale in Las Vegas right now, they don't need more houses.

 

[Johnny Tyndall]

Guess we're all going to find out if the parliamentarian is really real.