Comments on: Land exchanges serve the wealthy https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/ Syndicated Opinion for the American West Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:02:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: keith allen https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/#comment-306 Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:02:42 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5906#comment-306 Great piece, thanks for the education.

]]> By: langour https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/#comment-299 Thu, 18 May 2023 16:00:26 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5906#comment-299 There are plenty of wealthy folks who pride themselves on protecting/saving the environment, perhaps the goal should be to enlist their help in buying/protecting/preserving key public lands when others try to buy them. Maybe when government land managers are given a proposal it should automatically become a slow, carefully considered and competitive process and go to the highest bidder. The public could also organize and raise its own money to try to control the land. The illogical alternative is for public lands to be kept immovable, unchanging and public in perpetuity, which if you actually realize the nature of the system, would permanently cripple public land management by preventing a large degree of the evolution of public land towards attaining better, more usable, open, protected/preserved and valuable land for US citizens.

]]> By: Erica Rosenberg https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/#comment-292 Fri, 05 May 2023 22:59:10 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5906#comment-292 In reply to Matt L.

Sorry for the late response. It is not limited to BLM nor is it limited to Colorado. It’s been a problem for decades with Forest Service and BLM exchanges throughout the West.

]]> By: Land Exchanges serve the wealthy — Writers on the Range – Coyote Gulch https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/#comment-291 Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:39:07 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5906#comment-291 […] the link to read the article on the Writers on the Range website (Erica […]

]]> By: Sherri Gronli https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/#comment-290 Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:43:57 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5906#comment-290 Great article!

]]> By: Colorado Wild Public Lands https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/#comment-289 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:49:54 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5906#comment-289 Hi all, this is Graham with Colorado Wild Public Lands, the organization mentioned above that monitors these exchanges in Colorado. We’d be happy to chat and answer any questions if people would like to reach out to us at coloradowildpubliclands@gmail.com

]]> By: Matt L https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/#comment-288 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 22:44:10 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5906#comment-288 This is very interesting and of course, concerning to those of us who value public lands. I would have appreciated more information on how to reign in this practice of shielding appraisals and plans from pubic view. Is this a local BLM management issue? Is it common elsewhere or unique to Colorado.

]]> By: Tom S https://writersontherange.org/land-exchanges-serve-the-wealthy/#comment-287 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:02:12 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5906#comment-287 Super-important article that should spur conservationists to demand more transparency and greater oversight of land exchanges. As we push for protection for our public lands, and better management, we should also be careful about what we trade, why, and to whom, so that we are sure to advance fairness and justice alongside conservation. Without that, all successes will be temporary.

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