Privatization
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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…
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Legislators may tinker with elk ranching laws. By Roger Phillips. I was talking with a leader in a major sportsman organization the other night. He said the Idaho legislature was likely to do nothing of importance to restore fair chase hunting in Idaho, and he was talking ballot initiative to solve the problem the way…
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Here is in interesting story, especially since Erin Miller posts to this forum. Idaho Elk Breeders on the Offense. New West. By Bill Schneider Previous story on Camo Day. Jan. 17. Jan. 25, 2007 Update. Wild Bill has additional thoughts on this. Humane Society, Idaho Sportsmen, and Game Farmers: A Strange Affair. By Bill Schneider.…
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Northern Region’s Kimbell to Replace Bosworth as Forest Service Chief. Headwaters News as republished in New West. I’m not sure what this means. A new chief forester can mean a new direction, but not usually unless the Administration changes (as it did from the “Bush the Greater” to Clinton in 1993, and then again in…
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The power to condemn private property in the public interest (with just compensation, of course) is a fundamental power of government. Some states, including especially Wyoming, have actually allowed this fundamental power to be exercised by private entities, organizations that may very well not have the interest of the citizens of the state in mind.…
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I had meant to discuss this too, but KT just posted a detailed comment on the awful White Pine County, NV lands bill that did pass. This measure, which was attached to the omnibus bill, designates over 500,000 acres of scenic desert mountains as Wilderness, but outside the Wilderness it is privatization of our public…
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. . . and the message is a negative one. Read his column in New West. He points out that the entire newly imposed structure of fees to fund recreation on our public lands has been established by “midnight” riders to appropriations bills, “temporary programs” that somehow became permanent, or provisions buried deep within complex…
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Perhaps the worst of the crop of “wilderness with side payment” bills is dead, although this one is a more straight forward development and privatization bill with a thin veneer of wilderness. I won’t give the details because they have been hashed out earlier in this blog. US House blocks Washington County [Utah] lands bill.…