Commissioners come out against 30x30 land grab
By Neal A. Shipman
Farmer Editor
McKenzie County became North Dakota’s first county to officially come out in opposition to an executive order, titled “America the Beautiful,” that was signed by President Biden in January of 2021. The administration’s executive order has the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030.
“The federal government already controls 28 percent of the land in the U.S. or about 640 million acres,” stated Lee Geiger of Grassy Butte, as he presented a proposed resolution in opposition to the executive order to the McKenzie County Commissioners during their meeting on Tuesday, March 1. “They want to take the amount of controlled acreage to 681 million acres.”
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