Bush again proposes selling off national forest lands
Time for outdoor enthusiasts to step up and slap down an Administration privatization scheme again. Fortunately Congress is now a lot more unfriendly to overt privatization schemes than a a year ago. Idaho’s Senator Larry Craig rejected the President’s latest privatization scheme today.
Story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Bush again proposes selling off national forest lands. By Matthew Daly.
Story in the Bozeman Chronicle. Bush budget includes increased funds for parks, but also forest land sales. By Scott McMillion Bozeman Chronicle Staff Writer.
From the Huffington Post. What is it about “no” you don’t understand? [Mr. President]
From Goat, the High Country News blog. “Forest Land Sales: Will it Fly this Time?”

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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Instead of selling off lands here in the West to pay for better schools and roads for for rural folks, I think it’s a wiser choice to sell Texas back to Mexico for 20 cents an acre, if this bill doesn’t pass.
You have to be kidding me.
Again?