On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to support S. 434, a bill to provide a report on federal land holdings and maintenance. Introduced by Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), this bill would require the Department of the Interior to submit a report detailing all federal land holdings and the costs of maintaining them.

San Juan County, Utah is the poorest county in Utah and one of the poorest counties in the United States. The large majority of the land in the county is owned by the federal government, meaning that locals already face severe limits on economic activity, hardly what a struggling county needs. Now rich, out-of-state environmentalists in San Francisco want to inflict even more pain on the citizens of San Juan County. These environmentalists are urging the Obama administration to undertake a national monument land grab that would put much of the county off limits to productive use. Oppressing poor, rural Americans so that rich, city environmentalists can pat themselves on the back? Sounds like a project the federal government will be happy to help along.