By Sean Ridgway, TME

The new presidential administration has introduced sweeping changes across the United States in the six months since President Trump returned to office. Among the most controversial of these efforts is a provision tucked into the “Big Beautiful Bill,” in which the legislation “…mandates that the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management [BLM] identify and sell off between 0.5% and 0.75% of all National Forest and BLM lands in eleven western states over the next five years.”

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Above: Dark green areas depicting eligible Los Padres National Forest land near the mountain communities

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