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ALC President, Ken Ivory
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This Week's Challenge:
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- JOIN the ALC! No one can do everything. But EVERYONE can do something.
- Call your County Commissioners today and see if your county is a member.
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 | | Public Lands in Utah County Seat Season3, Episode 8 |
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Legislative Update
Idaho- HCR 21 & 22
Passed the House. Senate should hear the bills this week. Click here.
Nevada-
AB227 is currently in committee
Wyoming- HB0228 Passed.
Arizona- Public Lands Study established
New Mexico
Legislation Introduced, not passed, but gearing up for next session.
Colorado
Still in Senate committees
Arkansas- Has introduced a resolution supporting the TPLAs of the Western States.
South Carolina-Has passed a resolution in support of TPLA for the Western States.
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Greetings!
Just this last month, Ecuador was forced to auction off 700,000 acres of land and natural resources to pay debts to China. Who is our largest creditor? China. How will we ever pay them off? With over $16 Trillion of debt, which is climbing daily, we won't. Not with money. Not unless something changes...drastically. This is why we are continually pointing out that this is the Only Solution Big Enough!
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The federal government is broke, yet it is:
- Closing tens of thousands of roads on public lands, denying access for hunting, fishing, recreation, ranching, grazing, mining, fire breaks, access to school lands;
- Burning up our forests, killing millions of animals, polluting the air, and destroying watershed, property and life, instead of managing for healthier forests that used to fund schools, provide jobs, and a taxbase. The FBI warns that Al Qaeda is targeting our mismanaged forests as jihad weapons;
- Begging, borrowing and burning resources, instead of using the more than $150 Trillion in minerals locked up in federally controlled lands to create jobs, fund education, reduce deficits, and pay debts, and provide energy independence;
- Driving businesses and jobs out of state with burdensome regulations on public lands subject to change with little warning;
- Destroying state and local government budgets thru sequestration cuts, reneging on mineral lease royalties, demanding counties payback Secure Rural School (SRS) funds, dishonoring Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) promises, and printing billions of dollars monthly to overspend with no budget. See here and here for more details.
Please watch this video that explains some of the new problems our states are now facing, as of last week:
 | | Sen. Lisa Murkowski's Opening Statement on PILT and SRS programs |
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THE most important action you can take today is to JOIN ALC and become part of The Only Solution Big Enough to protect public lands, our future, and our way of life!
Then, call your local County Commissioners and ask them if your county has joined the American Lands Council. 22 counties already have. Is yours one of them?
We cannot afford to sit back and think that "someone else will do the heavy lifting". We must stand together and we must do it now.
Ken Ivory
ALC President
P.S. Click here to see a summary of the various membership levels and the benefits associated with each.
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