'Complete betrayal': Your favorite campgrounds and hiking trails could soon be up for auction

[electricmonk]

2. As a nomad

that lives part of the year on BLM and National Forest land if this proposal makes it through it will make my life and the thousands of others living this life more difficult. It will reduce the available places to set up at and add pressure to the ones that are available. I know that the powers that be don't care and would honestly like us all to be eliminated but there are also a fair amount of rich people out there boondocking. Sad thing is I know a lot of other nomads voted for the orange shit-gibbon because they've bought the lie that the Republicans are the small government/freedom party.

Out of curiosity I looked at the population within 50 kilometers of the Buffalo Hills Wilderness Study Area is 219 people, for the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest it's 22,651 which includes Leavenworth, for the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest it's 8410. I'm sure a lot of the other placers they plan on selling isn't much higher and hardly seem to be in a large enough housing crunch that they need thousands and thousands of acres of fresh land to bulldoze. It's 100% planned for rich mega mansions on huge tracts of land or resource extraction. None of it is for the benefit of the common person.

The tool I used to find the populations. I used the center of the places listed but they cover a lot of land and I'm sure moving the start point would change the output a bit one way or the other but not enough to change my point that it's not needed for housing.

https://www.freemaptools.com/find-population.htm