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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is on a tour of his state to amplify a far-right disinformation campaign against land conservation. The Daily Beast reports that Ricketts is falsely portraying the Biden administration's "America the Beautiful" campaign as a program that will seize lands from private owners.
Ricketts met with antigovernment extremist Trent Loos in late May to discuss Loos's opposition to the administration's 30x30 plan. 30x30 creates a framework for using locally-driven efforts to conserve 30 percent of America's land and waters by the end of the decade.
Loos falsely told The Daily Beast that the 30x30 plan called for placing more than 60 percent of land under federal control, and claimed that “The natural state of the United States before Lewis and Clark was a horrific place.”
Ricketts and Loos are using talking points from the group American Stewards of Liberty, which spreads disinformation about 30x30 to draft county resolutions opposing land protection. American Stewards is the subject of an IRS complaint by the watchdog group Accountable.US, alleging it is abusing its nonprofit status to lobby against 30x30.
Colorado natural resources head joins The Landscape
The latest episode of CWP's podcast, The Landscape, features a conversation with Dan Gibbs, executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. Dan talks about his role overseeing everything from forests to wildlife to oil and gas production, as well as his experience as a wildland firefighter.
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As the state’s appropriators, we have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure that we are appropriately charging for the benefit of extracting resources from our public lands so that New Mexicans receive a fair and true market value for these resources.”
