[RKV]

Sounds good to me. The US land area is 5,984,685 square miles. The national forest lands of the US make up about 5% of the total area. This is a drop in the bucket.

[george76]

Money used for: Secure Rural School Act, which sends money to rural schools.

Utah received $2 million from the program in 2005, part of $380 million distributed nationally...

National Forests and Bureau of Land Management land.

The two separate proposals are part of an effort to make the agencies operate more efficiently and generate new revenue in tight budget times, agency officials say.

Together, they would generate more than $1 billion over five years.

Southern Nevada has been where most of the land-sale action has taken place, with the BLM selling off chunks of land surrounding the Las Vegas area.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3486456?source=rss

[Pondman88]

Sell New England to France.

[Decepticon]

The national forest system encompasses about 193 million acres nationwide, and the agency doesn't expect a net loss of lands due to other ongoing acquisition programs.

The fed giveth and the fed takes away....

[Feiny]

Many state governments also own land & buildings that are not being used. California could raise millions if it sold off 10% of the unused property.

[traviskicks]

Good news! The less land the forrest service owns, the less harm they can do managing it! :)

[traviskicks]

and the agency doesn't expect a net loss of lands due to other ongoing acquisition programs.
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Aquisitions? From whom?

[tubebender]

I see Red Emerson benefiting from this in your area and maybe on the coast?

[george76]