RE: Amodei Modification 013 to H.Con.Res.14 – Public Lands Promote Off Modification
Expensive Members of the Home of Representatives,
On behalf of our members, we, the undersigned organizations, ask you to strip the Amodei Modification 013 from the Home Inside Reconciliation Invoice.
The Home Pure Sources Committee has now added promoting off public lands that belong to all Individuals to what’s already a sprawling try and fast-track useful resource improvement for quite a lot of industries together with oil, gasoline, coal, hardrock mining, and timber.
On the eleventh hour, and on the finish of a day-long listening to, Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV-2) and Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2) launched an modification, with out together with the maps the modification references, that might outcome within the sell-off of over 11,000 acres of Bureau of Land Administration (BLM) managed public land in Utah and 500,000 acres in Nevada. This modification was launched throughout a Home Pure Sources Committee listening to on Could sixth, 2025, with out a chance for overview by different members of Congress or the general public. The Committee voted to permit this modification and in the end in favor of the whole invoice.
Opposite to statements by Rep. Maloy, the language of the modification consists of no necessities for public use and no limitations on how the lands can be utilized as soon as bought — that means they could be developed for golf programs, luxurious resorts, strip malls, non-public trip houses, or just flipped on the market once more. Nothing is off the desk. The general public had no alternative to take part within the technique of figuring out these parcels, not to mention time to know the long-term impact of promoting off these public lands. Public lands ought to stay in public arms.
Parcels listed on the market within the modification are throughout the following areas:
Purple Mountain Wilderness
Beaver Dam Wash Nationwide Conservation Space
Santa Clara River Reserve
Santa Clara/Gunlock Space of Crucial Environmental Concern
Purple Bluff Space of Crucial Environmental Concern
The modification additionally consists of a number of parcels adjoining to Zion Nationwide Park, one of the vital visited Nationwide Parks within the nation. The tracts proposed on the market embody a 300 acre mesa exterior the small city of Rockville, in addition to tracts at standard trailheads.
This modification is barely the beginning of the push by the present administration, extractive business, and personal builders to unload public lands throughout the nation. However such strikes are deeply unpopular. Polling has repeatedly proven that the general public—particularly westerners—strongly imagine in maintaining public lands in public arms and, throughout partisan traces, reject any efforts that might result in the sale of those shared and cherished lands. The Home should reject thismisguided and wildly unpopular notion.
It’s crucial that the funds reconciliation course of just isn’t used to unload public lands.
Sincerely,Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance350.orgAccountable.US/Accountable.NOWAmerican Hen ConservancyAmerican Mountaineering SocietyAmerican Packrafting AssociationAmigos De Los RiosAppalachian Mountain ClubCactusToCloud InstituteCalifornians for Western WildernessCalWildCenter for Organic DiversityClimate Justice AllianceCoastal Hall AllianceConservation ColoradoConservation Lands FoundationConservation NorthwestDefenders of WildlifeEarthjustice ActionEcoFlightEndangered Species CoalitionEnvironmental Regulation & Coverage CenterEnvironmental Safety Data CenterEnvironmental Heart of San DiegoForests ForeverFriends of the Amargosa BasinFriends of the InyoFriends of the Misplaced CoastGlen Canyon InstituteGrand Canyon TrustGreat Egg Harbor Watershed AssociationGreenLatinosGreenpeace USAHills For EverybodyIllinois Environmental CouncilLeague of Conservation VotersMinnesota Division Izaak Walton League of AmericaMount Shasta Bioregional Ecology CenterNatural Sources Protection CouncilNature for AllNETWORK Foyer for Catholic Social JusticeNew Mexico WildNext 100 CoalitionNortheastern Minnesotans for WildernessOcean Conservation ResearchOregon Pure Desert AssociationPelecanusResource Renewal InstituteRobert Redford Conservancy at Pitzer CollegeSave Our CanyonsSheep Mountain AllianceSierra Enterprise CouncilSierra ClubSilvix ResourcesSoda Mountain Wilderness CouncilSouthern Environmental Regulation CenterStanding TreesTaunton River Watershed AllianceThe Ocean ProjectThe SummerTree InstituteThe Wilderness SocietyTuleyomeVirginia Wilderness CommitteeWestern Watersheds ProjectWild HopeWild MontanaWildEarth GuardiansWilderness WatchWilderness WorkshopWWAWyoming Wilderness AssociationWyoming Wildlife Advocates
