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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 05:46 PM Jun 2025

Senate Republicans plan to Sell Off 250 MILLION ACRES of public land

UPDATE: It gets worse. The updated legislative language makes over 250 MILLION ACRES of public land available for sell-off.


UPDATE: It gets worse. The updated legislative language makes over 250 MILLION ACRES of public land available for sell-off.

Janessa Goldbeck (@janessagoldbeck.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T20:27:13.049Z



Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.

It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.

Janessa Goldbeck (@janessagoldbeck.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T21:12:55.821Z


There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

Janessa Goldbeck (@janessagoldbeck.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T21:12:55.820Z


These aren’t just any lands.
They include:

🌱 Wilderness study areas
🌲 Roadless national forests
🫎 Big game migration corridors
🥾Local recreation lands
❤️‍🔥 Tribal homelands and sacred sites (with NO right of first refusal)

Janessa Goldbeck (@janessagoldbeck.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T21:12:55.822Z
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Senate Republicans plan to Sell Off 250 MILLION ACRES of public land (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 OP
So which is it? FBaggins Jun 2025 #1
Read it IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #2
And they will probably sell it for dirt cheap to their campaign donors. Baitball Blogger Jun 2025 #3
Sigh. They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum and they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em. 2MuchNoise Jun 2025 #4

FBaggins

(28,621 posts)
1. So which is it?
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 06:05 PM
Jun 2025

Over 250 million (more than 1/3 of all federal lands)… 120 million… or one million per month?

 

IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
2. Read it
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 06:19 PM
Jun 2025

Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.

It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.

Janessa Goldbeck (@janessagoldbeck.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T21:12:55.821Z

2MuchNoise

(723 posts)
4. Sigh. They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum and they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 08:53 PM
Jun 2025
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