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Stansbury warns public-lands selloff effort could return; delegation and tribes mobilizing over Buffalo tract
Summary
At a Sandoval County town hall U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury said a recent federal package contained a provision to sell federal public lands that was defeated but that the effort will recur; she and the New Mexico delegation and tribes are preparing to oppose administrative moves that could affect lands such as the Buffalo tract in Chaco Canyon.
Rio Rancho, Sandoval County Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury said a proposal to sell federal public lands was included in the federal package she criticized and that she and other New Mexico elected officials helped defeat that provision; she warned the threat to public lands will return and described ongoing coordination with tribal governments to push back.
"They wanted to sell off 3,000,000 acres of public lands," Stansbury said, describing the provision as an attempt to privatize large tracts of federal lands. "Most of the lands that…
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