08-26-2019, 08:41 AM
My inner tree hugger is coming out…
Short Story: William Pendley hates public lands, wants to sell off public lands, wrote about it as late as 2016… and is now somehow the highest civilian with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)… write/call your congressmen/senators to push them to appoint a real Director to the BLM.
Long Story: Do you like hiking, fishing, hunting, the outdoors? Did you know you, as a citizen, are part owner of all state and nationally managed public lands? Do you want to keep our nations largest asset (worth more than all the gold that used to be in Fort Knox) of the citizens and future generations? We all should.
Our public lands are managed by the Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), etc. The BLM itself oversees hundreds of millions of our acres… and over 200 million acres of mineral rights mostly west of the Mississippi. A BLM whistle blower has leaked information that shows a major issue that threatens our public lands.
William Pendley is a government employee, somehow hired to work with the BLM, and now holding the highest post (acting) with the BLM. Pendley is a lawyer that used to work for a firm that exclusively sues the government, on behalf of corporations, to gain access to public lands.
He was hired to oversee and manage the BLM policy department, but when the Director stepped down, Pendley became acting. As soon as this occurred he began a reorganization to further isolate long standing public servants in the field and to centralize his policy office in DC. The theory is (based on his writings), Pendley is looking to make the BLM so dysfunctional that it ends up on the government chopping block through manipulation of policy. The whistle blower also produced government documents of a major shift in BLM policy toward long term land leases… and his reorganization is moving BLM oversight away from the majority of corporate leases.
Normally this wouldn’t be too bad of a thing… but Pendley has written articles for decades on his philosophy of public lands. Basically, his philosophy is to sell off as much as he can, not in parcels the average person can buy, but in thousands of acre parcels to corporations for mining, oil, mass cattle grazing, etc. Pendley says its to “pay off the national debt.” We all know once money goes in the government in big chunks its not going to pay off a bill.
There is a huge detriment to selling off this land. In the short term, if they did pay off the debt, okay… but in the long term the lost taxes off of the +$900 billion (annually) out door industry would take a hit. Who is going to buy out door gear when there is almost no public out door land to go to? They don’t make more land, we cant afford to sell it off… its OUR LAND, lets keep it that way.
No matter your affiliation, we all need to take action immediately. Congress needs to appoint a Director to the BLM before this guy destroys the nations greatest asset. His philosophies have been enacted in half a dozen states, such as Wisconsin and Texas… where they have less than 2% of the overall state is public land (to include national, state, and county parks!).
Short Story: William Pendley hates public lands, wants to sell off public lands, wrote about it as late as 2016… and is now somehow the highest civilian with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)… write/call your congressmen/senators to push them to appoint a real Director to the BLM.
Long Story: Do you like hiking, fishing, hunting, the outdoors? Did you know you, as a citizen, are part owner of all state and nationally managed public lands? Do you want to keep our nations largest asset (worth more than all the gold that used to be in Fort Knox) of the citizens and future generations? We all should.
Our public lands are managed by the Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), etc. The BLM itself oversees hundreds of millions of our acres… and over 200 million acres of mineral rights mostly west of the Mississippi. A BLM whistle blower has leaked information that shows a major issue that threatens our public lands.
William Pendley is a government employee, somehow hired to work with the BLM, and now holding the highest post (acting) with the BLM. Pendley is a lawyer that used to work for a firm that exclusively sues the government, on behalf of corporations, to gain access to public lands.
He was hired to oversee and manage the BLM policy department, but when the Director stepped down, Pendley became acting. As soon as this occurred he began a reorganization to further isolate long standing public servants in the field and to centralize his policy office in DC. The theory is (based on his writings), Pendley is looking to make the BLM so dysfunctional that it ends up on the government chopping block through manipulation of policy. The whistle blower also produced government documents of a major shift in BLM policy toward long term land leases… and his reorganization is moving BLM oversight away from the majority of corporate leases.
Normally this wouldn’t be too bad of a thing… but Pendley has written articles for decades on his philosophy of public lands. Basically, his philosophy is to sell off as much as he can, not in parcels the average person can buy, but in thousands of acre parcels to corporations for mining, oil, mass cattle grazing, etc. Pendley says its to “pay off the national debt.” We all know once money goes in the government in big chunks its not going to pay off a bill.
There is a huge detriment to selling off this land. In the short term, if they did pay off the debt, okay… but in the long term the lost taxes off of the +$900 billion (annually) out door industry would take a hit. Who is going to buy out door gear when there is almost no public out door land to go to? They don’t make more land, we cant afford to sell it off… its OUR LAND, lets keep it that way.
No matter your affiliation, we all need to take action immediately. Congress needs to appoint a Director to the BLM before this guy destroys the nations greatest asset. His philosophies have been enacted in half a dozen states, such as Wisconsin and Texas… where they have less than 2% of the overall state is public land (to include national, state, and county parks!).
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