Smokepole,
Dave Skinner is a liar and doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
Here are the facts, not Dave's "alternative facts", otherwise known as lies. I guess by definition being a "free lance" writer, he assumes he's free to make up his own facts???
Anyway, the total number of acres controlled by the Federal Government in the United States is 700 million. Of all federal land, 109,127,689 acres are designated wilderness. Keep in mind that 56,572,549 acres of that total wilderness designation is in Alaska, another 14,000,000 and change in California. So over 70,000,000 is in those 2 states...roughly 65% of all designated wilderness is in 2 states. Dave and his fuzzy math would have you believe the West is all tied up in wilderness, not even close to anything factual.
The BLM controls about 248 million acres, the USFS about 193 million acres.
Of the 193 million acres that the USFS controls, only 18% of those lands are in designated wilderness, or around 34.7 million acres.
That leaves about 160 million acres of FS lands in the US open to multiple use.
The BLM has 8.7 million acres of designated wilderness, leaving a cool 239.3 million under multiple use mandates...or 97% of it open to multiple use.
Dave seems to think that the only federal managing agency with wilderness designation is the FS, that's not true either.
Its funny watching some dude with a tinfoil hat, writing from his Moms basement, trying to BS the players...
Isn't going to happen.
His equating Roadless to be the same as Wilderness was a nice way for him to pad his numbers. And ignore the fact that there are huge differences in management between the two outside of travel management.
PS- To be fair, a good poriton of that 239 million acres of multiple use BLM land is in AK as well...
