A Public Lands Controversy In The Great American West (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

If you saw Cliven Bundy and his armed supporters on horseback this spring in Nevada, you saw one face of a movement to get the federal government’s hand off of vast lands in the American West. The suit-and-tie version of that movement wants control handed over to the states. And we’re talking a lot of land. Eighty-one percent of Nevada – federal-controlled. Sixty-seven percent of Utah. Forty-eight percent of California, Wyoming. Critics say the new Sagebrush Rebellion is about oil and gas and development. Supporters say “states’ rights.” This hour On Point: Who will control all Americans’ western lands? / Tom Ashbrook

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/10/29/public-lands-sell-off-utah-montana