250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package

Basically all of the Cascade range in Washington it's fucking absurd and disgusting.

Rimrock lake will go from a pristine camping destination to clear cut and surrounded by mansions.

Hmm this won't make me a radical extremist at all.

• The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country. It trades ordinary Americans’ access to outdoor recreation for a short-term payoff that disproportionately benefits the privileged and well-connected.

• The June 14 updated version of the bill makes land with grazing permits eligible for sale. Although lands with undefined “valid existing rights” are still excluded, that term is now best understood to encompass property interests like oil and gas leases, rights-of-way or perfected mining claims.  

• The bill’s process for selling off lands runs at breakneck speed, demanding the nomination of tracts within 30 days, then every 60 days until the arbitrary multi-million-acre goal is met, all without hearings, debate or public input.

• The bill sets up relatively under-resourced state and local governments to lose open bidding wars to well-heeled commercial interests. It also fails to give sovereign Tribal Nations the right of first refusal to bid on lands, even for areas that are a part of their traditional homelands or contain sacred sites.