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December 07, 2005 09:00 AM UTC

Allard Opposes Land Giveaway

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  • by: Blue Sky

As reported today in both the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post, Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO) announced his opposition to portions of the House Budget Reconcilliation Bill that would allow “patents” on Federal lands.  Penned by Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV) and sponsored by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), the so called Pombo Amendment would allow the sale of any Federally owned land containing or adjacent to a mining claim with few exceptions.

The Denver Post also editorializes on the subject in today’s paper:

The measure  flat-out alarms local governments. Allard’s office has heard opposition from both the Colorado Municipal League and Colorado Counties Inc. The counties fear the mining amendments “would open the possibility of every little mining claim being developed without regard to land-use patterns,” explained CCI executive director Larry Kallenberger.

The mining provisions also have earned the wrath of numerous recreation and environmental groups including the Colorado State Muzzle Loaders, Trout Unlimited, the Izaak Walton League, National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy and the Colorado Wildlife Association. In addition, there’s formal opposition from conservative Republican U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas and six Western governors. (Colorado’s Bill Owens wasn’t one of them.)

Some 43 groups, mostly hunting and fishing organizations, ganged up on Sen. Allard to urge him to oppose the provisions.  Rep. Gibbons has interests in opening up Nevada lands to a new Gold Rush, while Rep. Pombo, who chairs the House Resources Committee, is an absolutist opponent of Federal ownership of lands.

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10 thoughts on “Allard Opposes Land Giveaway

  1. I guess that means I can put off calling Allard’s office a bit longer.  This bill would be a disaster for recreation interests and tourism in this state.

    Allard may be selected to be on the House-Senate conference committee on this bill, as the Post editorial recognizes.  He should push to be on the committee, and push even harder to have this poorly written legislation removed.

  2. Now if we could only get the good Senator to oppose the other heinous things in the House version of the bill.

    Cutting food stamps and heating assistance at this time of year is just plain cruel.  And that doesn’t account for Pell Grants, or Medicaid co-payments…

  3. ahh yes, the “Deficit Reduction Act”… I love the Republican’s Orwellian tactics, passing a “Deficit Reduction Act” and at the same time adding $20 billion to the deficit through tax cuts

  4. Colorado Ranches For Sale

    s rainbow and selling hay. Two creeks flow through the first time to have many additional amenities. Ownership starts at the west, to see this picture…

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