Western voters just want the GOP to leave their land alone, poll finds

A Navajo man on a horse poses for tourists in front of the Merrick Butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah, on May 16, 2015. AFP PHOTO/MLADEN ANTONOV /Photo credit should read MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images

Their representatives in Congress, however, don’t seem to care.

By Ryan Grenoble | The Huffington Post

 wide-ranging new poll released Tuesday by Colorado College finds voters in seven Mountain West states are largely opposed to policies that would significantly alter land management in the West, though legislators are moving forward with them anyway.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), for instance, has pushed one such plan calling for the “disposal” of millions of acres of federal public lands by selling them to the highest bidder (even if the sale doesn’t make money for the federal government).

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