Quick and dirty...a bunch of GOP scum bags (including McCain, Cruz, and Murkowsky) have attached a public lands rider to the soon-to-be-voted-on Defense Appropriations Bill.
This rider gives away 70,000 acres of the Tongrass Nat'l Forest (including pristine waters and beaches and coves) to a private corporation, thousands of acres of Apache Tribal lands, and much more. Somewhere, I understand, in the neighborhood of 500,000 acres...all to the benefit of prople like Clive Bundy (so ranchers can graze more cattle on our land and destroy the wildlife habitat) and oil and mining companies.
Please call Harry Reid's office 1-202-224-3542 and ask him to strip the public lands rider from the Defense Appropriations Bill. Then, call your own Senators.
This is outrageous. More pork for corporations and private interests. We have been sold out...again.