The Federal Bureau of Land Management intends to double the size of the current 66,000-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument by securing an additional 64,000 acres of existing public and some private lands — including some O&C lands (Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands) from Oregon and about 10,000 acres from Northern California — via executive order of President Obama.
This would severely effect the traditional and customary uses of all these acquired lands, and would ultimately affect all recreational sports, including hunting.
Environmentalists at and around Southern Oregon University apparently were given special notice of the meeting ahead of other key stakeholders and opponents to the proposed massive expansion, and the environmentalists organized well in advance, even telling their supporters to wear blue. They are now using the flawed science regarding “climate change” to help justify what amounts to just another public land grab by the BLM.
