Government documents would include hunting, fishing or camping licenses, public housing lease and rent statements, tuition statements or bills from public colleges and universities, as well as a host of other items.
Litigation by the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity has blocked all new public lands lease sales in California for over two years, and Friends of the Earth just filed a lawsuit demanding a halt to all leasing of U.S. government-owned coal.
This prompted common-sense reforms, undertaken during the Obama years, that returned balance to the public lands leasing process.
The millions of acres of public lands leased by either the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service are a privilege offered to the lessee, not a right.
In Colorado, the public acres leased out for energy production have fallen, from 97,232 in 2009 to just 4,393 in 2011 and 64,435 last year.
Only as the auction proceeded, he told the jury, and after seeing a friend weeping in the back of the room in anguish about the event, did things escalate to the point of actually bidding to win more than $1.7 million in public land leases.
Drug Evictions In an argument, the justices appeared highly receptive to the government's defense of a 1988 law that requires public housing leases to provide for the eviction of tenants whose family members or guests engage in "any drug-related criminal activity on or off the premises".
Next on the hit list for a public outing: leases.
In Union County, by comparison, approximately 18%% of the county (176,763 ha) is state public land leased for state profit, while in Oklahoma, such public State Lands are called "State School Lands," and in New Mexico, such lands are called "State Trust Lands".
