Map via Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps blog/Big Think
Yes, dear readers, corruptocrat Interior Secretary Ken Salazar can be stopped.
Since day one of the Obama administration, I’ve chronicled Loathsome Cowboy Ken Salazar’s War on the West, War on Jobs, and War on Science/Rule of Law. The last straw was his attempted Wild Lands grab. GOP leaders rose up with farmers, ranchers, and Western governors to stop the scheme in its tracks. Utah and Alaska have filed suit. Wyoming joined the litigation this week.
And now, Salazar has officially announced the backpedal:
Understanding how wilderness is designated and how wilderness-quality lands are managed in the U.S. just got murkier. On Wednesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued a memo that promised to abide by a congressional mandate that essentially made it impossible to identify wild public lands that merit protection.
Salazar’s memo noted there was broad interest in managing public lands in a “sensible manner” and promised to work collaboratively with members of Congress. He directed Interior officials to draft a report on how best to manage wilderness-quality lands. But the days of holding land in a kind of hands-off limbo while officials decide whether it needs more protection effectively are coming to a halt, again:
“On December 22, 2010, I issued Secretarial Order 3310 to address the BLM’s management of wilderness resources on lands under its jurisdiction. Under Secretarial Order 3310, I ordered the BLM to use the public resource management planning process to designate certain lands with wilderness characteristics as “Wild Lands.”
On April 14, 20II, the United States Congress passed the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (Pub. L. 112-10)(2011 CR), which includes a provision (Section 1769) that prohibits the use of appropriated funds to implement, administer, or enforce Secretarial Order 3310 in Fiscal Year 2011.
I am confirming today that, pursuant to the 2011 CR, the BLM will not designate any lands as ‘Wild Lands.’ “
GOP Rep. Doc Hastings of the House Natural Resources Committee said yesterday that he will make sure the administration doesn’t get away with any underhanded moves:
“It’s welcome news that the Interior Department will follow the law. After this positive initial step of halting the ‘Wild Lands’ order, we’ll be taking a close look at how the Administration proceeds. Congressional oversight has served a vital role in this entire process and the Committee’s active oversight on this matter will continue. Attempts to prohibit forms of public access, block job-creating activities and manage land as wilderness, even though they haven’t been designated as such by Congress, will be met with a strong reaction by this Committee. It’s important that BLM maintains this new promise of an open process, through conversations with interested parties, states, and Congress.”
Where there’s a will against Team Obama’s culture of contempt and corruption, there’s a way.
Fight on.
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States rising up to fight Obama land grab: Alaska, Utah file suit
Let’s export Ken Salazar to Brazil
Culture of contempt: Interior Department spanked yet again
The Interior Department’s culture of contempt
One measly deepwater drilling permit: Hoo-freaking-rah
Obama jobs death toll: Coal, oil, gas workers on the chopping block
Obama jobs death toll: Killing the drilling industry
Omnibus double whammy: The Dems’ lame-duck land grabs
Another Obama stealth land grab: Salazar and the NLCS
Throw Carol Browner under the bus; Update: Senate GOP calls for probe
Confirmed: Obama job-killlers Salazar, Browner lied about drilling ban rationale
Another ass-kicking: Judge rejects Obama drilling ban again
Obama’s Beltway Chainsaw Massacre
The White House War on Jobs
Pushing back: Thousands of Obama’s drilling moratorium victims rally in La.
Why does Ken Salazar hate our economy? Update: Western Energy Alliance calls for reinstating oil leases
Ken Salazar needs another ass-kicking
Another ass-kicking: 5th Circuit rejects White House drilling ban appeal
Ken Salazar gets an ass-kicking. Over to you, Capitol Hill. 6/24 update: Judge refuses White House drilling ban stay request; judge gets death threat
Breaking: Judge rules against Obamatorium on drilling; link to decision added; Interior Secy Salazar roasted
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/06/02/go … land-grab/
I actually listened to a debate about this today.
The reason it was scrapped is because the GOP Congress rescinded the funding for it.
They put it in as a rider on the Continuing Resolution. Took the money away.
So--the Obama adm had to give it up.
Now, the oil companies and land frackers and mountain-top removers are free to pollute and destroy at their will! Yahooo.
BTW--41 mil acres are alloted to development, 8 to conservation.
Of that land already given to oil and gas, half of it is not being used. What are they waiting for?
A new president and senate I think. They want to drill, frack and tear on that land, but they want no taxes, no regs, no limit on what they can charge, and no limit on how much profit they can make on PUBLIC land.
Why aren't they using that land NOW?
Why is business SITTING on 2 trillion dollars?
Michelle?
Oly?
No, not really. Since you seem to know about Teddy R.
Look up the Pittman Robinson Act of 1937.
See who signed it. What was it for?? Why it was necessary to have it.
We are talking apples and orange's here.
This Land Grab is just that. LAND GRAB.
OLY
Oil and gas companies did the grabbing. And yet they sit idle....while we need the oil.
Twas no land grab....twas an agreement to safe-guard the land....OUR land. But now, it's a free-for-all. Whoever has money wins I guess.
So they can hoard it, like they hoard all the money.
Public lands for private gain. My golly, that sounds like socialism to me.
We have a Government that is Broken,
A Congress that don't work, and,
A Senate that does not care.
OLY
Sounds like out of control Capitalism, busy working away at its devious means. "Stupervised" by a For Sale Senate and Congress.
man, just get rid of them all. Harvard and Yale at its best!
Waht a "frigin" Joke.
There is a site I believe about land grab in California and Oregon? stoplandgrab.org? As far as BLM land it is interesting that it is supposed to be public land, yet they gate it off against the public. Also land locking the BLM land with surrounding resident properties, not allowing a road for public access?
How true. We have a Gas Station for sale here in T. Falls, Montana. The City want's to buy it, BUT, it belongs to BLM.
I am watching this one to see what skulduggery somebody comes up with.
OLY
I will say that where we live there are public beaches run by the feds...
Once my daughter and her friends were smoking a joint in the parking lot. They were arrested and thrown in jail by the federal beach patrol.
The guy told them; "We have more power than the local police around here."
That was a wake-up call.
I say: "Lord Help Us All, in this land that was supposed to be Home of the Brave, and land of the FREE!"
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