Transfer of Federal Lands to the States
I am wondering how many RVers are aware of the movement to transfer federal lands to the states? Many western states are pushing this initiative. In Wyoming (my home state) nearly 25 million acres w...
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I just received this email (below) from Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. They are asking us to contact members of the House of Representatives to oppose the sale of a wildlife refuge in Puerto Rico. If the sale were to be approved, it would set a terrible precedent for federal lands in our neck of the woods. Please consider writing your congressman/woman. Thanks.
BHA Members -
Rep. Rob Bishop, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, has slyly attached a measure that would enable the sale of the 3,100-acre Vieques National Wildlife Refuge in Puerto Rico to a bill aimed at resolving unrelated fiscal issues on the island.
We need your help to stop this precedent-setting public land divestiture! Puerto Rico's dire fiscal woes simply should not be abused to advance the anti-public lands agenda of an out-of-touch few in Washington. While a national wildlife refuge in Puerto Rico may seem far removed from the public lands elk haunts and trout holes many of us frequent, its sale could have sweeping consequences for the places we enjoy closer to home.
Please take a minute to contact your member of Congress at 202-224-3121 or http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ and tell them the following:
Puerto Rico is currently $72 billion in debt and thus could never afford the management costs of the Vieques NWR, which is currently managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Handing over American public lands to Puerto Rico has but one possible result: a public lands sale.
Puerto Rico never asked for this land.
The Vieques National Wildlife Refuge is currently owned by every American, not the people of Puerto Rico. We all should have a say in the future ownership of our American public lands - and we believe strongly that our congressmen should vote to keep it public!
Thanks for speaking up and for all that you do to help keep our public lands public.
Tim Brass
State Policy Manager
651-206-4669
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the sportsmen's voice
for our wild public lands, waters and wildlife.
Here is some more information about the proposed sale: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3519902/US-official-warns-Puerto-Rico-resources-targeted-amid-crisis.html
BHA Members -
Rep. Rob Bishop, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, has slyly attached a measure that would enable the sale of the 3,100-acre Vieques National Wildlife Refuge in Puerto Rico to a bill aimed at resolving unrelated fiscal issues on the island.
We need your help to stop this precedent-setting public land divestiture! Puerto Rico's dire fiscal woes simply should not be abused to advance the anti-public lands agenda of an out-of-touch few in Washington. While a national wildlife refuge in Puerto Rico may seem far removed from the public lands elk haunts and trout holes many of us frequent, its sale could have sweeping consequences for the places we enjoy closer to home.
Please take a minute to contact your member of Congress at 202-224-3121 or http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ and tell them the following:
Puerto Rico is currently $72 billion in debt and thus could never afford the management costs of the Vieques NWR, which is currently managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Handing over American public lands to Puerto Rico has but one possible result: a public lands sale.
Puerto Rico never asked for this land.
The Vieques National Wildlife Refuge is currently owned by every American, not the people of Puerto Rico. We all should have a say in the future ownership of our American public lands - and we believe strongly that our congressmen should vote to keep it public!
Thanks for speaking up and for all that you do to help keep our public lands public.
Tim Brass
State Policy Manager
651-206-4669
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the sportsmen's voice
for our wild public lands, waters and wildlife.
Here is some more information about the proposed sale: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3519902/US-official-warns-Puerto-Rico-resources-targeted-amid-crisis.html
