Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) sounded the alarm on the Obama Administration’s federal land grab today on FOX News. The US already owns one out of every three acres in America. The Obama Administration wants to confiscate 15 million more acres.
Michelle Malkin wrote more about the radical green land grab program underway at the White House today in her column.
…Across the country, White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land. It’s another stealthy power grab through executive order that promises to radically transform the American way of life…
…The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation’s “largest land manager.” It already owns roughly one of every three acres in the United States. This is apparently not enough. At a “listening session” in New Hampshire last week, government bureaucrats trained their sights on millions of private forest land throughout the New England region. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack crusaded for “the need for additional attention to the Land and Water Conservation Fund — and the need to promptly support full funding of that fund.”
Property owners have every reason to be worried. The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is a pet project of green radicals, who want the decades-old government slush fund for buying up private lands to be freed from congressional appropriations oversight.
There’s more.
And, here is Michelle’s previous coverage of Obama’s War on the West and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s job destruction.
