Keep your greedy hands off our land

Republicans have included in their national party platform that it is their goal to immediately “take back” millions of acres of federally owned land throughout the West and turn over management to state and local interests. Sounds good in theory, if it were not for greed, and that it would be unconstitutional. Through a public records request, The Associated Press recently obtained a copy of a new legal analysis from a group of Western attorneys general — including Lawrence Wasden in Idaho and Bob Ferguson in Washington state — that indicates Utah’s push to gain control over more than 30 million acres of federal land within its borders has little to no chance of succeeding. More here.

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