Forestland giveaway. (federal government's proposal to award forest land to settle a Navajo-Hopi land dispute) (Lookout)

From: American Forests | Date: March 1, 1993| Author: Hopps, Michael W. | Copyright information

The federal government plans to award half a million acres of forest to the Navajos in an attempt to settle the latter's land dispute with the Hopis. Critics say that this would set a bad precedent in handling forest lands and undermine public trust in the Forest Service.

In a land-claim settlement that pleases almost no one, the feds plan to dole out half a million acres of forest--including 200,000 that belong to all of us.

Tucked away at the offices of the U.S. Geologic...

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