For sale: Public lands, private forest acreage

One more thing for which we can thank Reps. Mark Green, Paul Ryan, F. Jim Sensebrenner and Tom Petri:

The new budget bill their votes put over the top this week
will allow the sale of millions of acres to federal land in the West to developers, the NY Times reports.

Mike Dombek, a Wisconsinite who was chief of the US Forest Service job and is now back in Stevens Point, warned what that would mean in an LA Times op ed.

Closer to home, the Journal Sentinel's Lee Bergquist reports, more than 10-million acres of forest land are privately owned, and much of it is on the market and changing hands, raising some environmental concerns as subdivisions begin to sprout. Story.