Telling who aided with the brief.
- Idaho, Alaska, Wyoming and the Arizona Legislature. Iowa, which spearheaded a brief signed by attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas.
- Utah’s entire Congressional delegation, which includes Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, and Reps. Blake Moore, Celeste Maloy, John Curtis and Burgess Owens, all Republicans. Wyoming GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman also signed onto the brief.
- The Utah Legislature.
- The Wyoming Legislature.
- The Utah Association of Counties.
- The American Lands Council, a nonprofit organization based in Utah that advocates for access to public lands.
- The Sutherland Institute, a Utah-based conservative think tank.
- The Utah Public Lands Council, Utah Wool Growers Association, Utah Farm Bureau Federation, and county farm bureaus from Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Uintah and Washington counties.
- The Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit law firm.
- A coalition of counties in Arizona and New Mexico, the New Mexico Federal Lands Council and New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau.
That’s fucking ridiculous. BLM is for everyone. Federal land is for everyone. My tax dollars pay for it. Not for some livestock conglomerate or land developer to profit from the greedy little shits.
Do you know who uses the hell out of BLM land?
Traveling folk aka “unhomed”.
Fuck these people for trying this stunt.
They couldn’t care less if those people just died in a ditch, sadly.
BLM is for everyone
“Bureau of Land Management” for anyone who incorrectly reads this as ‘Black Lives Matter’.
But, yes, BLM is for everyone.
To be fair, it’s not very evenly distributed. I can imagine some states being grouchy that a wildly disproportionate share of their land cannot be put into economic use, when other states are not kicking in something comparable.
https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_ownership_by_state
Wyoming has 46.7% of its land be federal. Nevada 80.1%. New York has 0.8%.
Population densities are a factor as well. The state Wyoming has fewer people than New York City and it’s by a lot.
Wyoming is mostly land, there’s plenty there to be profitable with. This is mostly ranchers trying to use cheap land and suburban developers trying to increase profits. Both are paying politicians to sign off on it.
It’s the very thing Teddy Roosevelt fought to start the National Parks Department and that in turn empowered Truman to create the Bureau of Land Management. These two departments preserve and manage almost 10% of this country so that it remains accessible to the world. We should not as a nation allow it to be eroded.
Don’t forget oil drillers.
