OwenT
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I just found out about this today. The Natural Resources Management Act. Different media sources portray it from several positive aspects, even advertising that it will actually help some groups with access, but actually looking into it, it just looks like another land grab. They're making more monuments, more national parks, expanding existing ones. Closing all sorts of land to any sort of mineral or otherwise resource exploration. I noticed this because it includes a huge mineral withdrawal (340,000 acres) right on the very borders of the Slate mining district in Washington. Looks like in Utah alone more than 1,000,000 acres will be become "protected". Already passed the US Senate 92-8, now on to the House.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/47/text
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/47/text
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