Trump wants to cut Pacific Coastal Salmon Restoration Fund...

Before we are talking about federal lbs transfers to states and calling out Zinke I need a link. That's the opposite of what he has stood for. Gas and oil and grazing, sure, but that's multiple use not exclusive use or outright transfer.

Yeah killing salmon to keep Day labor out of the country is really stupid but let's not throw out the baby with the bath water here.

Before we are talking about federal lbs transfers to states and calling out Zinke I need a link. That's the opposite of what he has stood for. Gas and oil and grazing, sure, but that's multiple use not exclusive use or outright transfer.

Yeah killing salmon to keep Day labor out of the country is really stupid but let's not throw out the baby with the bath water here.

I don't know about you, but to me the idea of fishing in the middle of an oilfield doesn't sound very appealing... I don't hunt, but I imagine the hunters in the group probably feel the same way.

Oil/gas production wellfields inevitably lead to contaminated soil and groundwater. Pipelines inevitably leak. If we continue down this path, before we know it, our pristine public lands won't look quite like we remembered them. They won't be places we want to take our kids out fishing or hunting...



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I don't know about you, but to me the idea of fishing in the middle of an oilfield doesn't sound very appealing... I don't hunt, but I imagine the hunters in the group probably feel the same way.

Oil/gas production wellfields inevitably lead to contaminated soil and groundwater. Pipelines inevitably leak. If we continue down this path, before we know it, our pristine public lands won't look quite like we remembered them. They won't be places we want to take our kids out fishing or hunting...

None of that matters if you have a mansion in Florida, or a penthouse in NY, or a mansion in Bedford, or a golf club in Bedminster, or a winery in Charlottesville, or a mansion in St Martin, and so on and so on. 

Oyster Boy asked me for a link and he was right to do so. If you make claims you better back them up.  It made me go back and review some stuff so I will say now I'm mostly right but on Zinke himself - there is some question about where he stands.  You'll see in the articles his public pronouncements don't add up to a vote he took - but he is definitely better than I thought.

However - where I was very right - was about the intentions of Trump and the GOP to transfer Federal lands from public to private ownership.  Here's two links to articles one from NPR and one from the NY Times. Also here is an excerpt from the NPR piece that gives me both hope and anxiety about Zinke:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/17/510335071/trump-pick-to-head-interior-department-says-climate-change-is-not-a-hoax

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/for-interior-montanan-with-deep-roots-and-inconsistent-record.html

Environmentalists have criticized Zinke's record on climate issues since he was elected to Congress in 2014. But many conservation and sportsmen groups have also praised the interior nominee, for his opposition to a Republican-backed plan to transfer ownership of millions of acres of federal public lands to states. That plan has drawn broad opposition in the West especially over concerns that public access to that land could be taken away.

Last year, Zinke resigned his seat on a GOP platform-writing committee when the Republican National Committee included the language calling for the transfer. But earlier this month, the congressman voted with fellow House Republicans for a rule change that could make that transfer easier.

Pressed by Democrats on the committee to explain, Zinke said he wouldn't have voted for it if it had been a stand-alone measure; rather, he noted, it was part of a bigger package of broader changes.

"I want to be clear on this point, I am absolutely against [the] transfer or sale of public land," Zinke said today.