Report: Public Lands Sale Will Destroy Endangered Species Habitat, Protected Landscapes

625 square miles of BLM land could be lost forever to help pay for Billionaire tax cuts

An analysis conducted by the Center for Biological Diversity finds that the Trump administration’s plans to sell off 400,000 acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management includes 500 separate areas deemed worthy of protection by the agency itself. Areas within the potential sale include national monuments, protected waterways, and critical habitat for endangered species.

According to a report in Bloomberg Law, following up on the Department of the Interior’s announcement last month that it would like to sell (or maybe give away?) public lands under the transparently false guise of building affordable housing, the agency is looking at disposing of 400,000 acres of BLM land.

“The agencies are looking at all federal lands that could be used for housing within a radius of up to 10 miles of all cities and towns with a population grea…