Posted on 12/23/2010 7:58:53 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The Interior Department reversed a Bush-era policy on wilderness on Thursday, restoring the authority of its Bureau of Land Management to identify and recommend new areas for protection. Green
Since 2003, the department has excluded wilderness as a criterion it applies in managing federal lands for the public benefit.
“The new Wild Lands policy affirms the B.L.M.’s authorities under the law — and our responsibility to the American people — to protect the wilderness characteristics of the lands we oversee,” the bureau’s director, Bob Abbey, said in a statement.
Environmentalists welcomed the decision but questioned why it had taken nearly two years for the Obama administration to reverse the policy. They also expressed worry that the new policy could prove weaker than the wilderness designation formulas in place before President George W. Bush took office in 2001.
“We are not quite where we were before,” said Nada Culver, senior counsel in the Denver office of the Wilderness Society.
The rules for managing areas that come under the new designation “wild lands” are not yet clear and will be decided after a 60-day comment period, the Interior Department said.
The Bureau of Land Management is charged with managing 245 million acres largely located in 11 Western states, from the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado to the Headwaters Forest Reserve’s redwood forest in California.
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” All society will live under controlled conditions in urban dwellings. Nobody will be allowed to live outside of the metros.”
That’s the plan. The little Marxist creeps want to sit in their dachas in the mountains, sip absinthe, stroke their pointy Lenin beards and watch the bourgeois slaves head out to the fields to pick soybeans. What the commie dimwits never take into account is that they can bleed and die like anyone else.
I agree. Obama is so weak-willed, he and his cronies could not handle the leftist uproar over the so-called “taxcuts for the rich.” Between the election and that tax compromise, there were hints he might pivot to the right. Those are gone now. On another topic, Merry Christmas.
Who better than the Federal bureaucracy to manage our lands?
The bankrupt, corrupt, hideoulsy bloated, career statists...
Makes it that much easier to set up north american gulags when the time comes...
In short, this gives a handful of unelected bureaucrats the ability to close vast tracts of land to motorized travel, cattle ranching, logging, mining, oil and gas drilling, off road recreational activities, etc. with the stroke of a pen and no oversight nor recourse for the people.
The effect is that now millions of acres of our land are ruled by a few unelected bureaucrats, and with them the resources and vistas which belong to us all.
This isn't just the usual hanky-panky Great (half)White Father land grab, this is the self-designation of an agency as lord and master over all resources and use of public land with neither Congressional oversight nor approval.
bump perhaps we need to bookmark.
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