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<blockquote data-quote="Account Deleted" data-source="post: 87001" data-attributes="member: 886"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/print.php?key=51728-1" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/images/newbody/printicon.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">[h=1]Report: Idaho Has Sold 1.7 Million Acres to Private Interests Since Statehood[/h]<a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/state-idaho/ID" target="_blank">Public News Service - ID</a> | <a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/archives/2016/5/" target="_blank">May 2016</a> | <a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/mp3.php?f=rss-51728-1.mp3" target="_blank">Download audio</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/news-budget-policy-and-priorities/C3" target="_blank">Budget Policy & Priorities</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/news-cultural-resources/C53" target="_blank">Cultural Resources</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/news-energy-policy/C9" target="_blank">Energy Policy</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/news-environment/C15" target="_blank">Environment</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/news-public-lands-wilderness/C24" target="_blank">Public Lands/Wilderness</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong><img src="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/images/play.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong><img src="http://www.newsservice.org/getimage.php?p=c2dpZD01MTcyOCZzaWQ9MQ==" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>A new report shows the state has sold off 1.7 million acres of land over the past century, many for industrial uses that cut off public access, such as this gravel pit near Boise. (Brad Brooks, The Wilderness Society)</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">[h=6]May 4, 2016[/h]BOISE, Idaho - In its history, the state of Idaho has sold 1.7 million acres of land to private interests, according to <a href="https://wilderness.org/resource/report-idaho-lands-lost-highest-bidder" target="_blank">an analysis of land sale records by The Wilderness Society</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">In a report released today called "Sold! Idaho lands - and recreation access - lost to the highest bidder," the society found that once-public lands the size of the Sawtooth National Forest have been privatized over the past century.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Brad Brooks, the Wilderness Society's deputy regional director for Idaho, said the new owners often have eliminated all public access for fishing, hunting, rafting, hiking and snowmobiling.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"A couple of the parcels that we found in our research have been turned into gravel mines, plowed into agricultural production, turned into strip malls, and even large open-pit mines in the northern part of the state," he said.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The state Legislature has passed several bills exploring the idea of transferring federal public lands to state control. Supporters have said the state would do a better job than the federal government of managing the land and insist that public access would not be limited. But sportsman Jerry Bullock of Blackfoot said the state would likely follow its constitutional mandate to maximize profits from the land - and sell it off rather than preserve it.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"The record of the state -- not just in land management but their overall approach to wildlife and to conservation -- is deplorable," he said. "They seem to go out of their way to do things that are contradictory to good wildlife science."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The report found that some of the private interests that have purchased land from the state of Idaho include Simplot Corp., Potlatch and Boise-Cascade, as well as cattle companies, law firms and Blue Lakes Country Club in Twin Falls.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">- See more at: <a href="http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-05-04/public-lands-wilderness/report-idaho-has-sold-1-7-million-acres-to-private-interests-since-statehood/a51728-1#sthash.faQ1PfJh.CbkPOUfp.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-05-04/public-lands-wilderness/report-idaho-has-sold-1-7-million-acres-to-private-interests-since-statehood/a51728-1#sthash.faQ1PfJh.CbkPOUfp.dpuf</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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