{"id":1601797,"date":"2022-08-11T17:36:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601797"},"modified":"2022-08-11T17:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:36:43","slug":"congressional-candidate-proposes-pilot-program-to-cede-federal-land-to-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-candidate-proposes-pilot-program-to-cede-federal-land-to-wyoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Candidate Proposes Pilot Program to Cede Federal Land to Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongressional-candidate-proposes-pilot-program-to-cede-federal-land-to-wyoming%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601797&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LUSK, Wyo.\u2014Western states have been agitating for greater control of federal public lands for decades with few tangible efforts by Congress to determine how such a management model could work.<\/p>\n<p>If elected as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a>\u2019s lone congressional representative in November, Republican candidate Harriet Hageman will propose \u201ca pilot program\u201d that will allot up to 1.5 million acres of the 30-million acres now under federal control in Wyoming \u201cto the state so we could do a better job of managing\u201d without the weighty regulations imposed by a matrix of agencies in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>She said she\u2019d also examine land-use regulations to give states and private landowners a fairer shake in claiming mineral rights than what they now have in dealing \u201ca Biden administration that has gone to war\u201d with Wyoming\u2019s mineral industry.<\/p>\n<p>The minerals below Wyoming\u2019s prairies, deserts, and forests \u201cbelong to us,\u201d she said. \u201cWe should not have a government that is an enemy of the people\u201d it is supposed to be working for.<\/p>\n<p>Hageman, a natural resources and water rights attorney, is among nine congressional candidates\u2014including five Republicans\u2014on the state\u2019s Aug. 16 primary ballot.<\/p>\n<p>She drew a half-dozen ovations during an Aug. 9 candidates\u2019 forum at the Niobrara County Fairgrounds in Lusk hosted by the Niobrara County Farm Bureau Federation (NCFBF).<\/p>\n<p>The forum featured mostly Republican candidates running for the congressional seat, governor\u2014including incumbent Republican Gov. Mark Gordon\u2014state superintendent of public education, state secretary of state, state Senate, state house, and numerous county positions such as sheriff, and two seats on the Niobrara County Commission.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 people attended the forum in the fairgrounds exhibit hall\u2014a remarkable turnout for 2,628-square-mile county with a population of about 2,500.<\/p>\n<p>Framed by Rawhide Buttes and Thunder Basin, Niobrara County is the smallest of Wyoming\u2019s 23 counties.<\/p>\n<p>The eastern Wyoming county, like much of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUSK, Wyo.\u2014Western states have been agitating for greater control of federal public lands for decades with few tangible efforts by Congress to determine how such a management model could work. If elected as Wyoming\u2019s lone congressional representative in November, Republican candidate Harriet Hageman will propose \u201ca pilot program\u201d that will allot up to 1.5 million [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}