First that's not where they are wanting to sell off the federal land.
These same people don’t want any nonresidents hunting that federal land as well, you know their state owns the wildlife.
Well the state will have to issues licenses to someone, if there was no public they would still have to manage the herds, so sell it off and let those that can pay to hunt pay to hunt, hunt leases would be available.
“Many” of these same people I believe want to greatly restrict nonresidents hunting their state owned and managed wildlife that reside on Federal Public lands. They state that “their” state officials, elected to represent them, should and rightly do manage their wildlife as they see fit to the benefit of the residents, which I agree with. Then out of the other side of their mouth they don’t trust their state elected officials to manage Federal public land in their state, they prefer the Federal Government. Most people are like this, “whatever suits ME, I vigorously support, whatever greatly displeases ME, I vigorously work to prevent and I will try and justify my positions no matter how hypocritical, illogical, or ridiculous they may be. Cheers Bill
People would argue including me that the Fed can’t afford to maintain their public lands. A good question is why should someone in Connecticut pay to maintain Federal land in Utah? I googled that the majority of funds for BLM land comes from the federal budget from Congress. Why should bureaucrats in Washington manage land in rural Utah, especially when it restricts and conflicts with the elected officials representing Utah and to the detriment of Utahns? What if the elected majority of Utah want to mine, open up to petroleum exploration and develop the land for housing to create higher paying jobs and a better quality of life? Some would tell them they can’t, just get a job with the BLM or Forest Circus or in the tourism industry?
Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.
Isnt that the statue that was torn down from infront of the natural history museum in NY? I didnt see a whole lot of people in opposition to its removal on Hunttalk. Weird since that statue was one of the most iconic statues in the country and symbolize what TR was about in one of the most visited places in the country. Was he rolling in his grave then?
I don’t really care about statues. I do care about the North American Model of wildlife management and the public land trust of our national forests and BLM lands.
