#public-land-management

#public-land-management

On a soggy morning in Gilroy, Greg Porter lifts his cat and puts her inside the tent where he lives to protect her from the rain. The drops pattering on his tarp mark the first signs of the rainy season as he ducks into the flap and pulls out a multicolored flyer with bold red capital letters: VACATE.

"The financial realities would force states to sell off our public lands," warned Newberg, highlighting risks of transferring federal land to state control.