Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vollmer" data-source="post: 86997" data-attributes="member: 8014"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><strong>Access Stories Roundup: Idaho’s Track Record Predicts What Happens When Public Lands are Sold</strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">by <a href="http://www.outdoorlife.com/people/tony-hansen" target="_blank">Tony Hansen</a></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><img src="http://www.outdoorlife.com/sites/outdoorlife.com/files/styles/article_image_full/public/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-05%20at%2012.15.33%20PM.png?itok=wKwDMY1Y" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><strong>Idaho Land Sales: A Prediction of the Future?</strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><strong></strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">For months now, the debate over whether states should be given ownership of Federally-owned lands has raged. Proponents of the move say the Federal government is incapable of properly managing the land and claim the ground should be returned to state control and that doing so would mean only improved management and not a public lockout.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Opponents say that doing so would almost certainly mean a net loss in access by the public.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">So which side is telling a closer version of the truth?</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Perhaps we can look to Idaho for historical insight.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">The Wilderness Society recently filed a public records request for an analysis of the Idaho Department of Lands. What they found is interesting indeed.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">Since 2000, the state of Idaho has sold more than 100,000 acres of publicly-owned land. The buyers? Timber companies, cattle ranchers, lakeside homeowners and privately-owned fishing clubs along the banks of prime trout waters.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">That 100,000-plus acres is part of more than 1.7 million acres of public land the state has sold of the roughly 4.25 million acres Idaho received at statehood. That’s a sell-through rate of roughly 41 percent.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">“History is clear on what will happen if our national public lands are given to the state,” Brad Brooks, The Wilderness Society’s Boise-based deputy regional director told the Idaho Statemen. “They’re almost certain to end up in hands that will lock the public out.”</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">You can <a href="http://wilderness.org/sites/default/files/Idaho%20lands%20-%20TWS%20Report%20(May%202016).pdf" target="_blank">read the full Wilderness Society Report here</a>. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

Verification: What is the most common fish caught on this site?

Recent Posts

SB 2137 passed today
- Latest: Fritz the Cat
- Yesterday at 10:09 PM
Memes
- Latest: Rowdie
- Yesterday at 9:43 PM
7 PRC Article
- Latest: svnmag
- Yesterday at 8:34 PM
Bass Fishermen You're Welcome!
- Latest: svnmag
- Yesterday at 7:50 PM
I HATE coyotes!!!!
- Latest: SupressYourself
- Yesterday at 7:41 PM
F
Ready or not, here it comes.
- Latest: Fester
- Yesterday at 4:09 PM
MR Hazelton stretch
- Latest: LOV2HNT
- Yesterday at 1:22 PM
Tom Hoge pro golfer from Fargo
- Latest: Rowdie
- Yesterday at 10:23 AM
MR Walleye Fishing the Tailrace
- Latest: Rowdie
- Yesterday at 9:36 AM
Life Lessons
- Latest: lunkerslayer
- Yesterday at 9:17 AM
Dire Wolves?
- Latest: svnmag
- Sunday at 10:21 PM
Pretty dead tonight--WTH?
- Latest: svnmag
- Sunday at 8:47 PM
Some truth to most of these!
- Latest: Zogman
- Sunday at 6:02 PM
M
What are you listening to these days?
- Latest: Mike Fretty
- Sunday at 9:30 AM
Frozen Four
- Latest: Davey Crockett
- Sunday at 6:37 AM
Open water?
- Latest: Slappy
- Saturday at 6:23 PM
Snaps
- Latest: CatDaddy
- Saturday at 6:02 PM
Sad but true
- Latest: Rut2much
- Saturday at 1:30 PM
2137 House side
- Latest: Fritz the Cat
- Friday at 11:26 PM
Tiger Trout
- Latest: svnmag
- Friday at 8:50 PM

Friends of NDA

Top Bottom