Last month, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner penned a thoughtful op-ed in the Wall Street Journal advocating the use of excess federal land to address the nation’s housing crisis. President Donald Trump has long argued for using federal lands for this purpose. That’s especially true when it comes to the American West, where federal lands dominate.
Gellert further claims the Secretaries’ plan would splitter support for “[p]rotecting nature,” which “has been a bipartisan issue for decades.”
Sadly, he is too late in attempting to close that barn door. Indeed, federal land management was a bipartisan issue for decades, that is, until President Jimmy Carter decided to do the bidding of radical environmental groups. Carter’s embrace of
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