Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in “Year: 2001

Why Uncle Sam will keep the public lands

Article by Ed Quillen

Public Lands – February 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine

WITH EVERY CHANGE in presidential administrations, the big question in this part of the world, in the interior but far from the interior of the Washington Beltway, is not “Who will be attorney general?” or “Who will run the state department?” Instead, we wonder about the Secretary of the Interior.

That’s because Interior manages federal land, and Uncle Sam is by far the largest landlord in Colorado, especially Central Colorado.