From: "Gary Britt" 

Development is a good thing.  Its a public use, just ask all the liberal
big government justices on the Supreme Court.  So Bush is making a public
use of this land by selling it to private developers.

Seriously, I think a lot more federal land should be returned to private
hands.  The federal government stole way too much land from the states,
especially in the southwest and west of the Mississippi, in exchange for
admission into the union, imho.

Gary

"JaneL"  wrote in message
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> "George Sherwood" wrote:
>
> > So over recent years holdings have gone from about 190 million acres to
> > over 193 million and now there is a proposed sell off of about 200,000
> > acres out of 300,000 acres of listings.  Not quite a sell off of the
> > national heritage?  Did you even look at where these places where
located
> > and the types of land?
> >
>
> I looked.
>
> They're selling off parts of the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests in
> North Carolina.  I don't care what type of land it is.  I really don't
want
> to see it sold to private developers who will build houses right up to the
> Blue Ridge Parkway if they get a chance.
>
> http://ncnatural.com/NCUSFS/Nantahala/index.html
>
> http://ncnatural.com/NCUSFS/Pisgah/index.html
>
> What they're selling off in South Carolina and Georgia is just as bad.
Part
> of the Chattooga River goes through a section of the Sumter National
Forest,
> and there have already been problems with private developers trying to
stop
> people from using the river for recreation.  There have also been problems
> with sediment from existing development in the river, and as Atlanta
crawls
> towards Greenville, water is going to become more of an issue.
>
>

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