Comments on: Legislature is Hearing the Conservation Community’s Voice in Lansing

By: Michigan United Conservation Clubs » Land Cap Bill Up Again In House

Michigan United Conservation Clubs » Land Cap Bill Up Again In House — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:02:15 +0000

[...] has reported continually on this bill since last spring and has worked to amend the original form of the bill that favored [...]

By: Grumpy Old Man

Grumpy Old Man — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:33:00 +0000

Hey Buck, you should go to some states like SD, ND, MT, WY, CO, TX where there is very little public land except National Forests and Parks and try to recreate. It will cost you a $bunch to hunt or do any other outdoor activity on private ranch or farm land, if you get permission. Most of our state land was abandoned by the “robber barons” who took the timber and minerals and walked away. Be glad you have what we have. These Repuglican politicians are just trying to turn over public land to a new generation of “robber barons” who will develop the land and walk away with pockets full of $bucks, but leave others to pay the taxes, while we lose access.

By: Michigan United Conservation Clubs » Winter Break is a Great Time to Get to Know Legislators!

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:52:25 +0000

[...] Legislature is Hearing the Conservation Community’s Voice in Lansing [...]

By: ruauper2

ruauper2 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:20:00 +0000

Yeah, the state is supposedly broke so why don’t we just sell off all those public lands that belomg to the citizens of the state? Naw, let’s let the timber interests with their big pockets buy up all those choice parcels? Besides the state being alledgely broke there are a whole lot of just plain ordinary citizens who are out of work and broke so how in the world are they going to be able to buy ant of those lands?

Plain and simple, this was just another attempt at a land grab formulated by Casperson for his buddies in the timber industry. What has to be watched now is the fact this bill goes over to the House where it will come before Casperson’s puppet, Rep. Huuki.

By: George

George — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:23:00 +0000

$1.85 is good! The Feds only pay .98 per acre. CFR land pays $1.25. Trust fund purchased lands are paid “Add Valorm”, the going rate. Who should we be going after.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:04:00 +0000

The state is broke. Time for it to sell some assets, including land. When will the greedy politicians in Lansing stop gobbling land up? This just simply drives the price of land out of reach for the common citizen. The DNR is a bloated government agency that needs to be trimmed and reined in.

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:34:00 +0000

How much state land is needed? We have about 5 million acres now, isn’t that enough. Look at how much money are the townships are loseing as this land is taken off the tax roll. The state only pays $1.85 acre to the townships and cities. In the U.P. some counties are a quater owned by DNR plus Federal land. Not very much revenue for the countys. The DNR can,t even manage the land they have now properly, and they just keep adding! When they manage the land they have now properly for the habitat and let we the people us the land within reason, then I wouldn’t have a problem, but till they do I support this bill. How much land do they really want to own, they won’t tell you this, as I have asked, why do they want to own all this land, how much recreational land does the state need?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000

Excellent job! Another huge issue that needs to be addressed in any future attempt to move this along is the fact that these monies from Natural Resource trust Fund are ear tagged for land acquisition, if the state would be capped and meet that cap undoubtedly the need for this fund to be tagged as is will come under fire. If anything like this is to be considered there should be an answer to this concern built into it.