Senator Murkowski has her sportsman hat on to allow hunting, fishing and shooting on federal lands. And she is concerned LAZY bureaucrats are leaving public lands closed and ignoring the public. The so called lazy bureaucrats should speak very loudly about her insults and attempt to control land use to it's best outcomes for wildlife as well as citizens.
This is a joke. These are the fees of all the public lands except in Utah and California.
There needs to be fees to insure processing of a filmmaker's intent is known. The application is as important as the fee. The application will spark an assessment to the land condition and whether or not the intended use will destroy or harm the public lands. This is ridiculous.I guarantee you if this was private concerns receiving these monies they wouldn't be touch, but, because the USA Treasury is receiving it, it has to be destroyed and more than likely the application process. There are already cuts all out agencies have to absorb and this is still more to prevent law enforcement of our lands and wildlife.
Evidently, states have the right to ask for higher fees because of the maintenance of public lands. The public lands should not enter into a bargain between State and Federal governments. These are federal lands that benefit the public. The idea federal lands are to be granted to states because a state wants to drill where there is no drilling permitted now is outrageous.
This bill attacks the sovereign nature of existing laws such as Tribal rights. endangered species status and water rights including those provision of the Clean Water Act. This bill to provide the dispersal of federal lands to the states will seek to end opposition by the State Department in regard to the Keystone XL. It is amazing the degree Republicans will go to kiss the 'behind' of the petroleum industry.
Oh, you say that all nonsense. Let me provide an example.
The State of North Carolina has no threatened species of plants at all. NONE. Yet a native tree recognized by NC, the Long Leaf Pine, is used as a symbol of NC. It is the state tree. There is an organization that deals with the scarcity of this pine tree and it is treasured by the entire southeast which is unique to that area of the country. If NC is given any federal land there will be clear cutting and forget about the protections of wild African Violets that are visited by college students regularly as a plant that instructs understandings that are important.
If federal lands fall into the ownership of the states, they will be ravaged for cronies.
Range: The historic range of the longleaf pine (click here) once extended from southeastern Virginia to Florida, west through Louisiana to east Texas. Today, the trees are only found within small patches of this range.
Long leaf pine forests where they do exist provides for an entirely unique ecosystem including the vitality of endangered species of flora and fauna. If the State of North Carolina is given control of federal lands, theses forests will disappear without a doubt because of course 'it will create jobs.' For the land that remains with these forests it might provide clear cutting for about a week and then those loggers will be looking for work all over again.
The America's Longleaf Restoration Initiative (ALRI) (click here) is a collaborative effort of multiple public and private sector partners that actively supports range-wide efforts to restore and conserve longleaf pine ecosystems. The vision of the partners involved in the ALRI is to have functional, viable longleaf pine ecosystems with the full spectrum of ecological, economic and social values inspired through the voluntary involvement of motivated organizations and individuals....
Republicans don't value life, they value Wall Street.
The management of water quality currently enjoyed because of federal workers will be lost of the lands fall into the hands such as the extremists in North Carolina. I am sure NC is salivating already.
Long leaf pine forests where they do exist provides for an entirely unique ecosystem including the vitality of endangered species of flora and fauna. If the State of North Carolina is given control of federal lands, theses forests will disappear without a doubt because of course 'it will create jobs.' For the land that remains with these forests it might provide clear cutting for about a week and then those loggers will be looking for work all over again.
The America's Longleaf Restoration Initiative (ALRI) (click here) is a collaborative effort of multiple public and private sector partners that actively supports range-wide efforts to restore and conserve longleaf pine ecosystems. The vision of the partners involved in the ALRI is to have functional, viable longleaf pine ecosystems with the full spectrum of ecological, economic and social values inspired through the voluntary involvement of motivated organizations and individuals....
Republicans don't value life, they value Wall Street.
The management of water quality currently enjoyed because of federal workers will be lost of the lands fall into the hands such as the extremists in North Carolina. I am sure NC is salivating already.
"The student success Act" (click here) I am not going to read this, but, educators and interested parties certainly should.
