Commentary: Backcountry Hunters and Anglers sounds alarm amid push to sell half a million public-land acres

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, North America’s leading public lands advocacy group, announced May 12 that it’s sounding the alarm and mobilizing its nationwide grassroots network in response to a last-minute amendment to the U.S. House budget reconciliation bill that would authorize the sale of nearly 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada.
Introduced without public input, conservation safeguards, or reinvestment in access or habitat, the amendment represents a sweeping assault on the future of America’s public lands.

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