Report blasts land giveaways
Following recent congressional proposals that would divvy up
millions of acres of federal land among states and private
interests, the Natural Resources Defense Council released a report
charging that such measures would “impoverish the nation.” NRDC
outlines what it calls an assault on public lands: budget
resolutions allowing the sale of national forests and wildlife
refuges, bills to transfer Bureau of Land Management properties to
states and eliminate selected national parks, and budget cuts that
would drastically weaken the authority of federal land managers.
“Congressional leaders have developed a series of strategies aimed
at liquidating our federal lands under the pretext of deficit
reduction and government efficiency,” say NRDC authors Johanna H.
Wald and Sami Yassa. Copies of the 24-page, Selling Our Heritage:
Congressional Plans for America’s Public Lands, are available for
$7.50 plus $1.45 shipping and handling from NRDC Publications
Department, 40 W. 20th Street, New York, NY
10011.
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