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Barrasso: ‘Wyoming, Not Washington, Should Decide How to Manage Wyoming Lands’
During a business meeting Thursday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved several pieces of legislation. Two of the bills approved were introduced by U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the ENR Committee. Senator Barrasso addressed the committee by saying the Pilot Butte Power Plant Conveyance Act would help spur the responsible resource management of Wyoming’s Pilot Butte Power Plant facility.
The other piece of legislation introduced by Barrasso and approved by the ENR Committee was the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act. Barrasso said the bill would resolve the management status for thousands of acres of federal public lands across seven counties in Wyoming.
According to information presented by Senator Barrasso at the hearing, the bill is the direct result of a collaborative process started under the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI). The WPLI was created by the Wyoming County Commissioners Association in 2015 to seek locally driven solutions on the future of federal public lands that have been in management limbo for more than 30 years.
dennis west
December 15, 2023 at 9:33 pm
setting it up to transfer public lands to your moneyed friends, eh Doc? Pretty clear you work for those that really pay you, not us who give you an DC allowance, letting you to live where the real paymasters are. Life is good when you don’t need to worry about integrity or conscience, wouldn’t you say? Oh, and about that oath to defend and protect the constitution . . . . not a peep.
mike duncan
December 20, 2023 at 10:28 am
Joe Biden has a 34% approval. Harris has a 35% approval. Pretty clear this administtion cant do anything right
Let the local people manage–they certainly cant do any worse
Dennis Fox
December 16, 2023 at 3:11 pm
What thinking person could disagree. Local control is always better. Decisions make closest to those they affect, are always better. And that begins with the individual, then family, then local area. If we all made the vast majority of our decisions ourselves….the World would be a much nicer place. Freedom wins!