{"id":1206,"date":"2013-10-10T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:31","slug":"congressional-report-shows-the-high-costs-of-public-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"Congressional report shows the high costs of public land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1207\" alt=\"PL\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PL.jpg\" width=\"1008\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PL.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PL-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy ROCKY BARKER \u2014 rbarker@idahostatesman.com<\/p>\n<p>Three federal agencies spent $392 million to manage 32 million acres of public land in Idaho in the 2012 budget year, a Congressional Research Service report shows.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that Idaho would have to make up for much of those costs if it succeeded in getting control over the land, as a resolution passed by the Idaho Legislature demands.<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Department of Lands has estimated that the state could raise $50 million to $75 million annually in timber receipts from federal land. But one cost not figured into the estimate could swallow that revenue by itself \u2014 $58 million in payments to counties under two programs, one that makes up for former timber revenues and another compensating for the fact that counties can&#8217;t tax federal land. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/2013\/10\/08\/2805596\/the-high-costs-of-public-land.html\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ROCKY BARKER \u2014 rbarker@idahostatesman.com Three federal agencies spent $392 million to manage 32 million acres of public land in Idaho in the 2012 budget year, a Congressional Research Service report shows. The report shows that Idaho would have to make up for much of those costs if it succeeded in getting control over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}