{"id":1643,"date":"2006-02-21T00:11:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T07:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/selling-off-public-lands-\r\n\r\ncontinued\/"},"modified":"2006-02-19T20:12:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T03:12:34","slug":"selling-off-public-lands-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/selling-off-public-lands-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Off Public Lands &#8212; Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/albq\/nw_national\/article\/0,2564,ALBQ_19860_4459579,00.html\">The Albuquerque <\/p>\n<p>Tribune: National<\/a><br \/>\nForest land sale planned<br \/>\nBy James W. Brosnan<br \/>\nScripps Howard News Service<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration <\/p>\n<p>proposes to sell up to 307,000 acres of National Forest in 32 states to developers, <em>including 7,447 acres in New Mexico,<\/em> to <\/p>\n<p>subsidize schools in timber country. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More than one-quarter of the acres considered for sale are in California, with 85,465 <\/p>\n<p>acres. Idaho is next with 26,194 acres, followed by Colorado, 21,572 acres, and Missouri, 21,566 acres. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Forest Service <\/p>\n<p>hopes to generate $800 million over five years from the sale of isolated parcels that are difficult for foresters to manage, said Mark <\/p>\n<p>Rey, undersecretary of Agriculture for natural resources and environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In New Mexico, the proposal includes 18 tracts <\/p>\n<p>in the Cibola National Forest, 18 in the Lincoln National Forest and five in the Kiowa National Grassland. They range in size from 20 <\/p>\n<p>acres to 640 acres.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cibola areas are all west of Grants, in the Zuni Mountains, said Cibola National Forest spokesman <\/p>\n<p>Mark Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>The Forest Service plans to publish maps of the proposed sale properties on its Web site Feb. 28 and take comments on <\/p>\n<p>which ones to remove.  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public lands are an asset that need to be managed and conserved,&#8221; said Idaho <em>Republican<\/em> Sen. <\/p>\n<p>Larry Craig.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nState Total \r\nAla. 3,220 \r\nAlaska 99 \r\nAriz. 1,030 \r\nArk. 3,612 \r\nCalif. 85,465\r\r\n\r\n\n<strong>Colo. 21,572<\/strong> \r\nFla. 973 \r\nGa. 4,522 \r\n<strong>Idaho 26,194<\/strong> \r\nIll. 191 \r\nKy. 4,518 \r\nLa. 3,895 \r\r\n\r\n\nMich. 5,880 \r\nMinn. 2,622 \r\nMiss. 7,503 \r\nMo. 21,566 \r\n<strong>Mont. 13,948<\/strong> \r\nNeb. 360 \r\nNev. 2,782 \r\r\n\r\n\n<strong>N.M. 7,447<\/strong> \r\nN.C. 9,828 \r\nOhio 420 \r\nOkla. 3,572 \r\nOre. 10,581 \r\nS.C. 4,665 \r\nS.D. 13,961 \r\nTenn. 2,996 \r\n\r\n\r\nTexas 4,813 \r\nUtah 5,398 \r\nVa. 5,717 \r\nWash. 7,516 \r\nW.Va. 4,836 \r\nWis. 80 \r\n<strong>Wyo. 17,659<\/strong> \r\nNation \r\n\r\n309,441 \r\nSource: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a title=\"USDA Forest Service - Caring for \n\nthe land and serving people.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/land\/staff\/rural_schools.shtml\">Secure Rural Schools Forest Service FY 2007 <\/p>\n<p>Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albuquerque Tribune: National Forest land sale planned By James W. Brosnan Scripps Howard News Service The Bush administration proposes to sell up to 307,000 acres of National Forest in 32 states to developers, including 7,447 acres in New Mexico, to subsidize schools in timber country. &#8230; More than one-quarter of the acres considered for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/selling-off-public-lands-continued\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selling Off Public Lands &#8212; Continued<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}