Solution for Paying for Rural Schools……

…..getting rid of our National Forests! Yes, that’s how we fix things – sell stuff!

The Secure Rural Schools Forest Service FY 2007 Initiative is aimed at reauthorizing the Secure Rural Schools program for another five years. To help fund this initiative, the Administration recommends selling a limited number of acres of National Forest System lands around the nation. Lands that are potentially eligible have been identified and are displayed in a table at the following link Lands Potentially Eligible for Sale by State and National Forest.

Here are the Utah sections of forest proposed to be sold (click link).

Learn more about the Sale of FS Lands.

There you have it. Instead of reducing expenditures in other areas (like the WAR department), we’ll just degrade our environment further by cutting down forests for services that should be funded without going to this extreme.