<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I exaggerated simply to stress my belief that these regions MUST NOT be transferred to state management.</div><div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div><div><br>On Dec 9, 2014, at 4:54 PM, lfalen <<a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Your statement is an over exaggeration however the article is fairly well on target. The Federal Forest Service is better able to handle fire control and the state now gets a credit for the federal lands inside he state. That does not mean that there aren't some lands that could be sold to private parties.</span><br><span>Roger</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>Subject: [Vision2020] Takeover of federal lands could cost Idaho millions</span><br><span>From: "Moscow Cares" <<a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">moscowcares@moscow.com</a>></span><br><span>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>></span><br><span>Date: 12/09/14 12:28:58</span><br><span></span><br><span>Twenty years from now . . . outside the newly built Walmart super-center . . . slave laborers will be lining the sidewalk for nickle-an-hour jobs . . . recalling how, back when they were infants, grandpa and grandma would take them trail-riding and camping . . . in the very spot they stand . . . back when it was . . . the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area.</span><br><span>God bless America . . . please.</span><br><span>Courtesy of today's (December 9, 2014) Lewiston Tribune.</span><br><span>---------------------------------------Takeover of federal lands could cost Idaho millionsPanel's recommendation on plan is expected todayBOISE - Taking control of federal public lands in Idaho could cost the state $111 million a year, a new report shows.The study by the University of Idaho's Policy Analysis Group found the state could lose millions of dollars in eight of nine different scenarios involving such a transfer.Researchers compared various financial benefits for the state's timber industry to increased costs connected with management of the land.The report was requested by a legislative committee tasked under a resolution known as HR22 with studying a state takeover of federal lands in Idaho. The panel will finalize its recommendation today.Supporters of a land transfer claim timber harvests would boom under state management. Meanwhile, opponents say the boost in revenue would</span><br><span>do little to offset the millions of dollars needed for land management expenses.Researchers only saw a profit of $24 million a year in one scenario. In that case, Idaho would have to boost its harvest by 1 billion board-feet of timber a year and sell it at $250 per 1,000 board-feet.Under the worst-case scenario, Idaho would increase its harvest sales by half a billion board-</span></div></blockquote></body></html>