CarbineCaleb
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impact: Hm! you mean taken by "eminent domain"? Folks were given "an offer they couldn't refuse" for land they owned free and clear? No, I didn't hear that happened a lot in recent years, but I would be grateful for any details/source you may happen to know of though. I try to keep up broadly speaking at least with resource management stuff.
The thing that I have often heard in the past is that there is some fair controversy over how the BLM lands are managed. Lumber rights, mineral rights, water and grazing rights, (basically leasing for specific exploitation uses) seem to be sold at handout prices... then you have stuff like clearcut logging of forests and overgrazing of prairies - essentially the people who rent the land don't really pay much or own it, and so really have no stake in taking care of it - they just try to extract as much money as they can, as fast as they can... meanwhile, that land actually belongs to everyone but is being trashed. Because these lands are often so desolate in the first place, not many folks aware of that... if a company clearcut Central Park in NYC, or left huge piles of toxic mining tailings just outside a Dallas subdivison, I think folks would notice, and there might just be a little noise made.
The thing that I have often heard in the past is that there is some fair controversy over how the BLM lands are managed. Lumber rights, mineral rights, water and grazing rights, (basically leasing for specific exploitation uses) seem to be sold at handout prices... then you have stuff like clearcut logging of forests and overgrazing of prairies - essentially the people who rent the land don't really pay much or own it, and so really have no stake in taking care of it - they just try to extract as much money as they can, as fast as they can... meanwhile, that land actually belongs to everyone but is being trashed. Because these lands are often so desolate in the first place, not many folks aware of that... if a company clearcut Central Park in NYC, or left huge piles of toxic mining tailings just outside a Dallas subdivison, I think folks would notice, and there might just be a little noise made.
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