Labrador bill seeks local control

A U.S. House committee will take up Congressman Raul Labrador’s Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act today despite some resistance from conservation groups. The bill, HR 2316, would create a pilot project that gives states and counties more of a say in the management of no more than 2 percent of the national forests in the West. The House Natural Resources Committee’s subcommittee on Federal Lands will be hearing that bill today at 11 a.m. Pacific time, along with four other land use bills including one that would simply turn federal lands over to the states where they are located. Conservation groups, such as the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, say Labrador’s is an attempt to undermine public land ownership/ Jeff Selle , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

Question: Wouldn’t it be nice if Republican legislators supported local control of cities and counties, as Labrador does at the federal level?