TELL CONGRESSAmerica’s public lands are NOT for sale! Sign the petition Tell Congress: “Locked gates and no trespassing signs do not belong in our national forests and public lands. Don’t pass legislation that will transfer federal public lands to state governments or private control.” Not ?Republicans didn’t campaign on getting rid of America’s public lands and national monuments in the last election, but they sure are acting like it.First they attempted to pass a bill that would abolish the Antiquities Act, a hundred year old executive privilege that allows Presidents to protect threatened public lands and designate national monuments.Now they’re using Congress’s annual budget process to lay the groundwork for turning America’s public lands over to state control for sale to private mining, drilling and real estate companies.Tell Congress: Do not transfer America’s public lands to state or private control.This latest assault on America’s public lands is at the hands of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the new Republican chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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