The Coffman Chronicle

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Selling the Soil, Scrubbing the Story

How Congress Is Auctioning Public Lands While Rewriting the Story of Who We Are

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Marie Riverton
Jun 20, 2025
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As the U.S. nears its 250th birthday, what should be a moment of national reflection is instead turning into a reckoning with how the country’s memory, land, and truth are being quietly but systematically stripped away.

The Senate has just revived and expanded a controversial plan to sell off up to 3 million acres of federal land—deserts, forests, wetlan…

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