Large Land Sale Could Impact Climbing
In Land plan has climbers on ropes we learn that Bush wants to sell 300,000 acres of U.S. Forest land to extend a federal program to support rural schools and roads for the next five years. Of course, some of this land contains some climbing areas.
The Access Fund issued a press release, but I couldn’t find it quickly on their web-site. Instead, you can read about in this article:
Prevent Sale of Climbing Areas on Public Lands. The articles differ in the amount of land (200,000 acres vs 300,000 of U.S. Forest Land) actually up for sale, but they also don’t know how many climbing crags might be impacted. You can look up areas potentially eligible for sale and try and count the total acreage.
