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ALC President, Ken Ivory
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This Week's Challenge:
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- Read "A Turning Point on Public Forests" and "A Case Statement for HB 148, the Transfer of Public Lands Act"
- Forward these two articles to at least 10 others on your email list.
- Share them with your friends on Facebook!
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Legislative Update
Utah- Two bills moving forward that help preserve Utah's jurisdiction over our lands. See HJR-15 andHB-164.
Idaho-
is preparing a bill and resolution similar to the Utah TPLA
Nevada- be introduced in the 2015 Legislature with a transfer date of June 30, 2015.
Nevada-
To be introduced this session is a bill to create a Legislative Interim Committee to plan for the implementation of the NV Public Lands Management Act, to be introduced in the 2015 Legislature with a transfer date of June 30, 2015.
Wyoming- passed TPLA study legislation through their legislature and it has been signed by their governor. NICE JOB, WY!
Colorado- has a TPLA bill moving forward that is still in the works.
New Mexico- TPLA still moving forward. Through the first House committee and feeling good about the next committee.
Arizona- Working on a commission with the governor's support to study the transfer issues and the legislature is preparing an improved TPLA to run again this year.
Arkansas- Has introduced a resolution supporting the TPLAs of the Western States.
South Carolina- has passed their resolution in support of TPLA for the Western States. THANK YOU, SC!
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Greetings!
Good morning! Becky Ivory here...Director of Communications here at the American Lands Council. To those of you who took the time to outline an Op-Ed to share last week, THANK YOU! This week we're going to take a minute to look at Step Five in our Six Simple Steps, and see how the federal mismanagement of public lands has been destroying our wilderness, rather than saving it as so many would have you believe. |
Step Five
People who want to keep federal control over our lands are constantly trying to make people believe that the states cannot afford to take over the maintenance of our public lands, that states will destroy public lands in their efforts to make money. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Who has more motivation to preserve the beauty and use of our public lands...a federal bueaucracy thousands of miles away, or those of us who live on, and escape to the beautiful wildernesses of the West? No one cares more for our land than we do. The Transfer of Public Lands Act is about making those decisions at a local level, where the people most affected have a say in the decision.
This attachment, "Turning a Profit on Public Forests", is just one example of how states can, and already do, manage public lands more efficiently and conscientiously than a budget-strapped, distant federal bureaucracy. Another example is given in an excellent document created by Utah's Constitutional Defense Council, entitled, A Case Statement for HB 148, the TPLA.
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This week, we would like to ask you to:
Thank you for taking the time to learn the truth. Only when we know the truth can we then take efficient and affective action.
Remember, it's really this simple:
- It has been done before!
- The promise is the same!
- Be part of the only solution big enough!
Sincerely,
Becky Ivory
on behalf of
Ken Ivory
ALC President
P.S. Have you Become a Member of The American Lands Council yet? What are you waiting for? Click here to see a summary of the various membership levels and the benefits associated with each.
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