GEORGE BUSH'S ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR: "AUCTION OFF ALL FEDERAL LANDS INCLUDING NATIONAL PARKS"
Terry L. Anderson, environmental advisor to George W. Bush Jr., has proposed to auction off all 600 million acres of federal public lands in the U.S. over the next 20-40 years. This not only includes every National Forest, National Wildlife Refuge, and BLM District, it also includes every National Park and Monument. Under his proposal, non-profit environmental groups could bid on the free market against the likes of Exxon to obtain the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or against Weyerhouser to obtain Yellowstone National Park, or against Phelps Dodge to obtain Grand Canyon National Park.
Any bets on how the bidding will go?
Anderson is closely associated with several conservative think tanks pushing for the privatization and/or commercialization of public lands. He is the director of the Political Economy Research Center, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. PERC's website links to the Thoreau Institute which has proposed, among other nonsense, to privatize ownership of endangered species. Anderson's proposal was published by the CATO institute and can be viewed at link Anderson freely admits that his corporate take-over agenda would be wildly unpopular with the American public. In an interview with the National Journal (10-23-99) he said that Bush is watching the polls and will not likely announce any radical public land agendas during the campaign.
But after?
Terry L. Anderson, environmental advisor to George W. Bush Jr., has proposed to auction off all 600 million acres of federal public lands in the U.S. over the next 20-40 years. This not only includes every National Forest, National Wildlife Refuge, and BLM District, it also includes every National Park and Monument. Under his proposal, non-profit environmental groups could bid on the free market against the likes of Exxon to obtain the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or against Weyerhouser to obtain Yellowstone National Park, or against Phelps Dodge to obtain Grand Canyon National Park.
Any bets on how the bidding will go?
Anderson is closely associated with several conservative think tanks pushing for the privatization and/or commercialization of public lands. He is the director of the Political Economy Research Center, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. PERC's website links to the Thoreau Institute which has proposed, among other nonsense, to privatize ownership of endangered species. Anderson's proposal was published by the CATO institute and can be viewed at link Anderson freely admits that his corporate take-over agenda would be wildly unpopular with the American public. In an interview with the National Journal (10-23-99) he said that Bush is watching the polls and will not likely announce any radical public land agendas during the campaign.
But after?
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