Nobody in powers give a hoot about any of us having a free place to hunt. This is the lie they tell us to cheer them confiscating the land from development for things like growing food, resource development, or raising the next generation of farmers and non-criminals. No, instead, they take the land and turn it into a bonanza for corporate and special interest greed. Here are just a few examples of public resources stolen from the little guy that was supposed to always have equal access to those lands:
President Clinton continued his administration's war on the West in September by ordering what U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, described as "the mother of all land grabs." Pandering for the "green" vote at the time, Clinton trooped to the Grand Canyon, unilaterally designated as a national...
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Further, understand that resource extraction here is infinitely cleaner than anywhere else on earth. In North Dakota, oil and gas drillers have a mandate to spill not one drop on the soil. By the end of this year or next, they will also be at zero flaring of natural gas biproducts.
In coal extraction, it is surfaced mined here, and money is set aside to completely reclaim the land, including, those reclaimed lands need to be farmed for ten years to prove successful reclamation. You could drive from Bismarck to Minot and see no mining scars anywhere.
I'm gonna be coarse here, but I'm afraid it's called for. To cheer for the government to own all the wildlands is a losers wish. Here's the slush fund to push the dream of any of you from ever owning public land. The state of MN in 2025 from just LSOHC alone will spend $165 million shrinking the supply of private wild lands in MN.
When you add in all the programs and the federal dollars, MN is usually around $1 billion dollars a year gobbling up private wild lands. Good luck trying to save money to buy your own piece of private land when the state is draining the land supply to the tune of nine 80 acre parcels every single day. And your do-good orgs are feeding it to them, like DU, PF, MDHA, Sierra, Nature Conservancy, etc.
Northern MN is covered in public lands, to the tune of most counties in the northern forest are 85% publicly owned, and the hunting and resource management is so bad up there, nobody hunts there. If you plopped a thousand private 40-acre parcels into the arrowhead region I guarantee you the wolf problem would be gone, moose would return, and there would be deer again.
But hey, we make $1,000/ac once every 20 years logging those lands for pulp wood. So there's that. And making money on federal land leases? For what? So we can send keep killing everyone living on land israel wants?
Now, should there be no public land? Absolutely not. I think there should be public spaces everywhere, including inside the towns and cities. I think with absolute resolution the most unique lands should be protected and held publicly like Glacier, Yellowstone, The Muir Woods, The Boundary Waters, etc. But it should be balanced. I think the state and federal government should swap northern forest lands out, sell them to the people (not a foreign country or bill gates, or potato or lumber corporations) and that money should be redirected to protect lands in farm country.
I think public dollars should be spent heavily to develop habitat improvements on private lands. Imagine if there were ten thousand private fish ponds in MN. What would that do to take pressure off the 7 public lakes in MN that still have fishable walleye populations?
What do we get from industrial ag? Corn syrup (cancer, heart disease, obesidy), ethanol (shortened engine life), distillers grains fed to livestock (grossly toxic omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids in meats that lead to heart disease and diabetes), soybean oils (which lead to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, macular degeneration, gynecomastia), soybean meal (fed to hog house pigs that are shot full of amoxicillin to keep the pigs alive, which produces pork full of drugs, toxic omega 6 to 3 fatty acid ratios which lead to heart disease and diabetes, and meat loaded with mRNA vaccines), and more tillage and chemicals to keep that system going. There are neonics in the well water all over farm country because we must plant warm season crops into 40 degree soils. But that cannot come out because there is no answer to it. So keep drinking it and keep being mystified while those cancers and autoimmune disorders rip through farm country.
