Public Land Sales Return in Scaled-Back Form in Trump Tax Bill

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1. Here's an excellent article explaining why more land than just the Parks is needed to support the Parks.

'No recovery from this': Grand Teton National Park advocates sound alarm bells over possible sell-off
A GOP bill puts public lands for sale. Its effects on Grand Teton National Park could be irreversible.
By Kylie Mohr,
Big Sky Country Contributing Parks Editor
June 20, 2025

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Protected areas like national parks can’t function in isolation, as wildlife move in and out of the park for habitat and food, crisscrossing between the national park and the public lands that surround it. Streams flow across land boundaries. Fragmenting habitat and migration corridors by selling public land and developing it as private land would hurt pronghorn antelope, bison, elk and other large mammals, Fitzgerald said.

“The land around Jackson is pretty darned important to a lot of wildlife,” Gregg Servheen, board president of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation, agreed. “These are the lands of grizzly bears, wolverines, mountain lions, migrating pronghorn, vast herds of elk that are all just dependent on these habitats.”

Selling these lands for housing or other development, Fitzgerald said, would “unwind decades of conservation at a time that we are already environmentally taxed.”

“I fear there would be no recovery from this,” Fitzgerald said.