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[Fritz the Cat]

Hey Rowdie, just for you I'll post another blurb,

Support Tribally Led Conservation and Restoration Priorities. Tribal governments haveoften struggled to access Federal funding and assistance to support their conservation efforts,either because they are not written into legislation that authorizes key Federal programs, orbecause they may not have capacity to navigate the bureaucracy to participate in the programsfor which they are eligible. Federal agencies should review their most successful conservationprograms, such as the LWCF and the National Marine Sanctuaries nominations process, todetermine how to better include and support Tribal governments. This may include workingwith Congress to revise underlying statutes, or developing technical assistance and capacity building grants to support Indigenous-led conservation efforts.

Additionally, Federal agencies should take steps to improve engagement with AmericanIndians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians on the care and management of public lands andwaters, particularly regarding sacred and ceremonial sites, and trust and treaty rights. TheBiden-Harris administration has committed to engaging in regular, meaningful, and robustconsultation with Tribal Nations; this must include land management planning and relevantdecision-making for public lands and waters.30

Finally, the Federal Government should prioritize restoring Tribal homelands by improving theland into trust process. Tribes have time and time again proven to be the most effectivestewards of natural resources.

Rowdie, Minnesota has a State program called Lessard-Sams. A sales tax provides millions. A Tribe is petitioning right now to use some of that white man money to purchase private land and put it into a land trust for them. The land won't be given to them directly or added to the reservation per se. But they will dictate land use and hunting. The people in Minnesota are currently blocking it because they know that never ends well.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Sounds like now we have to worry about native Americans and ranchers after public land and shafting the tax paying hunters.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Sounds like now we have to worry about native Americans and ranchers after public land and shafting the tax paying hunters.

Bruce, did you read the report?

https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/f...-and-restoring-america-the-beautiful-2021.pdf

Here is a little clip that may be of interest to you.

The interagency working group—led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Natural ResourcesConservation Service (NRCS), and NOAA, in partnership with the Council on EnvironmentalQuality, and other land and ocean management agencies at the Departments ofAgriculture, Commerce, and the Interior—would be tasked with gathering input from the public,States, Tribal Nations, a wide range of stakeholders, and scientists to assess existing databases, andto develop an inclusive, collaborative approach to capture and reflect conservation and restorationof lands and waters. The group, for example, could consider how to reflect State- and county presented information, how to capture conservation outcomes on multiple use lands and oceanareas, and how to protect the privacy of landowners, and sensitive or proprietary information.

Bruce, it looks like the federal agency you used to work for (USGS) is going to be the lead on this.

I do not view cowboys and Indians as the problem here. Keep an eye on the federal bureaucrats.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Bruce, it looks like the federal agency you used to work for (USGS) is going to be the lead on this.

I do not view cowboys and Indians as the problem here. Keep an eye on the federal bureaucrats.

lol Dwight you think you don't trust them, if you only knew. I would explain some things to you, but I talked with GST once, and he coukdnt keep his big mouth shut.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Gordon: After BLM ranch buy, feds should divest of other land (msn.com)
After buying the Marton Ranch under President Joe Biden’s 30×30 conservation initiative, the federal government should divest itself of some Wyoming holdings, Gov. Mark Gordon said Wednesday.
In calling for some divestment, Gordon joined the state’s congressional delegation that seeks similar action in the wake of the 35,670-acre purchase made earlier this summer. U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis and U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney asked Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to “neutralize” the federal purchase of private property by “identifying equivalent disposal opportunities elsewhere in the State.”
In an interview in which he explained alleged legal shortcomings of the purchase and the state’s appeal of the transaction to the Department of the Interior, Gordon said a reduction of the federal footprint is “what I’d like to see.”
The BLM has several “inholdings” that are basically landlocked by private property and therefore marked for potential disposal, Gordon said. “To whatever degree we can help that process along so we end up with a no-net-gain of federal lands … that’s a good thing.”
Wyoming’s administrative appeal of the purchase does not call for the transaction to be undone. Rather, it seeks a remand to the BLM so the agency can “adequately consider the mandatory statutory criteria,” and “engage State agencies, local governments, and the public, as required,” the appeal states.
The conservation purchase continues an effort to protect the North Platte River, a prized fishery that’s considered one of the best trout streams in the state. The purchase, which will provide new access to the river while protecting almost 8.8 miles of stream bank from development, was the eighth on the waterway, the agency said in an email.
All previous purchases “received strong support from state elected officials,” the BLM said.
From fiscal year 2003 to fiscal 2018 the BLM preserved more than 4.9 miles of riverfront, spending $9.3 million to acquire 1,551 private acres, the agency said. That doesn’t include the Marton Ranch, which cost $21 million.
“This [Marton] project went through National Environmental Policy Act review and was available to the public on the BLM’s ePlanning website,” the BLM wrote.
“Elected officials were briefed about this large acquisition (without divulging the willing seller’s name) nearly a year ago,” the email said. “[A] local commissioner and the Governor’s office were briefed in May.”
The BLM will manage the Marton Ranch, its largest-ever purchase in Wyoming, as it does other lands in the area south of Casper. It will continue to allow grazing and mineral exploration but public access will increase for hunting, fishing and other activities.
[h=4]No involvement?[/h]Gordon’s administrative appeal claims the BLM violated federal environmental and planning laws, in part by not involving state and local governments and the public.
“There was no consulting-agency process with Game and Fish,” Gordon told WyoFile. There wasn’t any contact with the Office of State Lands and Investments, which was “taken by surprise,” he said.
Regarding consultation with Natrona County’s Board of Commissioners, “there was really none there, either,” Gordon said.
It’s “wrongheaded” for the federal government to think it can “put [the Marton Ranch] in the federal estate without public scrutiny,” the governor said.
Land and Water Conservation Fund dollars used to buy the ranch — in a cooperative effort with The Conservation Fund and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation — “were meant to be subject to the guiding laws of the Federal Land Management Policy Act,” Gordon said. That act “requires that these funds not just be whimsically used for whatever the bureaucrats think they should be used for,” Gordon said.
Biden’s America the Beautiful initiative, which promotes the voluntary conservation of 30% of the country’s land and water by 2030, put some of those spending controls “in question,” Gordon said. The conservation aspect of the America the Beautiful initiative is known as 30×30.
In the Marton case, the federal funds “were used by the Bureau of Land Management in an opaque way for a personal agenda,” Gordon charged; “To effect 30×30 without public comment.”
[h=4]No federal increase[/h]Limiting the federal government’s holdings in Wyoming is a good thing “because we already have half of our destiny tied up with whatever the federal government decides we want to do,” Gordon said. Federal ownership of some 48% of the state has “compromised our economy,” and troubled the state through other related issues, he said.
Further, the BLM’s preservation and conservation goals could have been more surgically accomplished with state involvement, Gordon said, particularly with regard to North Platte fisheries. The governor’s appeal states that the BLM “violated the National Environmental Policy Act when its environmental analysis stopped at the water’s edge.”
© Provided by WyoFileAnglers float near the Lusby public access ramp on the North Platte River June 20, 2022. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile)


In the river itself, wildlife managers are troubled with the increasing pressure put on trout, an increase in catch-and-release injuries and an aging population of fish.
Increased access could exacerbate worries to the point the Wyoming Game and Fish Department might impose new restrictions or closures. That will make Wyoming the bad cop, Gordon suggested.
“We’re now stuck, much like we are with the Endangered Species Act and the grizzly bears, we’re now stuck with being the face of what the federal government is forcing us to do,” Gordon said.
Wyoming’s statement of reasons filed with the Interior Board of Land Appeals on July 15 said the agency had used a more open process in past acquisitions in other states. It criticizes the BLM for secrecy; “It prepared the Decision clandestinely,” the appeal states.
More river access could increase the danger of aquatic invasive species infecting the waterway, the appeal states. The BLM wrote a “three-sentence cumulative impact analysis” without citing any data to support it, the appeal states. Finally, the BLM did not consider five of the seven criteria it is required to account for when spending Land and Water conservation money, the appeal states.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Ranchers/farmers like yourself have crapped on people who were once your friends, and now you want support? Guys like GST pissed people off on purpose so they could get angered response on these outdoor sites, then copied them to show our legislators. You people are users and have no loyalty. The more you post your whines the further left you push people, and I dispize the left so your doing a diservice to ranchers, farmers, and all outdoor enthusiasts. Your angry because your goal of taking land away from us is slipping away. We hunters are surrounded by the power hungry crazies on the left, and the greedy on the right. You coukd be right, but your reputation doesn't make you posterboy to carry the flag.

More public land sounds good, but not with the left writing the rules for the public land. I can see them buying up oil rich land and denying drilling for example.

Edit: Copy this and show your legislator.