{"id":3407,"date":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/uncategorized\/colorado-college-poll-finds-60-of-western-voters-reject-sale-of-public-lands-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","slug":"colorado-college-poll-finds-60-of-western-voters-reject-sale-of-public-lands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/colorado-college-poll-finds-60-of-western-voters-reject-sale-of-public-lands-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado College Poll finds 60% of western voters reject sale of public lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Colorado College released its annual State of the Rockies Project poll on January 11, 2016 finding that, &#8220;Three-in-five voters in the West reject the sale of &#8216;signficant holdings of public lands (60% oppose &#8211; and in Colorado 59% oppose). Just one-in-four (26%) would support this even though it was framed as having the goal to &#8216;reduce the budget deficit.&#8217; &#8221;  The poll also found that, &#8220;A solid majority of voters (58%) oppose giving state government control over national public lands to allow the state to decide the future management of the lands if taxpayers have to &#8216;pay all the costs, including the cost of maintenance and preventing and fighting wildfires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Link to the Poll: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/dotAsset\/e8c3962b-df68-4aa9-8039-73bd379f9022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.coloradocollege.edu\/dotAsset\/e8c3962b-df68-4aa9-8039-73bd379f9022.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado College released its annual State of the Rockies Project poll on January 11, 2016 finding that, &#8220;Three-in-five voters in the West reject the sale of &#8216;signficant holdings of public lands (60% oppose &#8211; and in Colorado 59% oppose). Just one-in-four (26%) would support this even though it was framed as having the goal to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}