Sentence examples for lands issue from inspiring English sources

Mr. Simmons has criticized Mr. Gejdenson on the tribal lands issue, saying he has failed to mediate between the tribe and the towns that oppose expansion.

Despite the fact that so many of our West's forests are part of federal lands, wildfire is not just a public lands issue.

The request by U.S. Rep. Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) joins a similar one made last year by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif ., making a rare show of bipartisan unity on a publics lanD-Calif .

"There are so many of these machines," said Dave Petersen, a bow hunter who monitors public lands issues here in Durango for the environmental group Trout Unlimited.

Jeff Eisenberg, executive director for the Public Lands Council, a group that works on public lands issues for ranchers, said Mr. Salazar's proposal was a big step toward a solution.

"That is complete bull," Mathew Gross, a spokesman for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, a 35-year-old nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to public lands issues, said Thursday.

The land issue did not go away, however.

"The land issue is Angola's biggest challenge," she says.

Nine years later, the land issue remains frozen.

Agreement on the land issue, the first of five items on the agenda, had seemed imminent.

And the land issue could all too easily be the catalyst.