A new poll of registered voters across the West found that most oppose rolling back federal environmental laws — a top priority of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda.
Eighty-four percent of those surveyed said they are against curbing “laws that protect our land, water, and wildlife” and 59 percent rated it an “extremely/very serious problem,” according to the 16th annual “Conservation in the West” poll released Wednesday by Colorado College.
What’s more, 86 percent of respondents rated budget cuts “to management of national parks, forests and other public lands” as a “serious problem” — including 75 percent of those who said they support Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda.
The bipartisan poll, which questioned 3,400 voters on a wide range of public lands and wildlife management policy issues, also found that 74 percent of respondents oppose selling “some national public lands to private companies for housing development.”
