The asshats in the House are at it again.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a package of anti-wilderness bills including H.R. 1505 the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act.
The anti-wilderness package allows logging in California roadless areas, clear-cutting of old growth forests in the Tongass National Forest and virtually rent-free grazing on public lands.
H.R.1505 would hand over “operational control” of federal public lands within 100 miles of the Canadian and Mexican borders to the U.S. border patrol and would outright suspend 16 environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, within 100 miles of U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada.
The US Customs and Border Patrol would also have immediate access to develop roads and infrastructure on the more than 600 million acres of national parks, monuments, Indian reservations, wilderness, wildlife refuges.
LINK (Via: Ecowatch)