10/11/2024
Biden/Harris close down popular hunting and shooting area.
Hunters and shooters, this is out of control, and we pay taxes on fi****ms and ammo to keep places like this open.
Federal agencies have banned recreational shooting on more than 1.3 million acres of public lands on the Bears Ears National Monument—an area larger than Rhode Island. The agencies cited no evidence of user conflicts or public safety concerns. They apparently just don’t like people practicing shooting on public lands.
But the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act REQUIRES federal agencies to prioritize hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting on federal lands. Further, the Dingell Act limits federal agencies’ ability to close public lands to these activities to the smallest possible area for the shortest possible time. The agencies paid lip service to this Congressional mandate in shutting down Bears Ears but clearly did not comply.