Tagged: Selling forests

5:13pm

Tue October 25, 2011
Environment

U.S. House bill would sell off public lands in the Northwest

Credit Walter Siegmund / Wikimedia Commons

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would require the Obama Administration to sell off public lands, including parcels in the Northwest.

The issue got a hearing Tuesday in Washington, D.C., just as some northwest lawmakers are pushing for wilderness protections on other lands.

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