Headsup on a GD thread: MASSIVE PUBLIC LAND GRAB ALERT – House bill

[Nothing Without Hope]

This one is important, folks. If the House version of this bill is passed, millions of acres of our public lands could be gobbled up by developers.

The GOP backers of the bill say that only a small amount of land would be involved, but they are lying, according to the "experts on natural resource law" consulted by the LA Times, who say that it could result in millions of acres of public land being sold for very little and opened to development.

PLEASE COME TO THE MAIN THREAD ON THIS TOPIC FOR LINKS AND DISCUSSION:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5372231
thread title (11/16 GD): PUBLIC LAND GRAB ALERT! LATimes:millions of acres at stake in House bill

(I see that NVMojo has posted on this House bill a few days back - I'll post a reply to this OP with a link to that thread in a moment.)

[Nothing Without Hope]

1. NVMojo posted a thread on this subject a few days ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x34811
thread title (11/11): Environmentalists up in arms over new mining proposal

It's good that the LA Times has picked it up - this needs major attention to head off a catastrophe. Those GOP congress people would sell their own grannies if they could be profitably converted to strip malls.