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Ms. PEREZ. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to call on the family of the German Prinz zu Salm-Salm about their land holdings in my district.
being squeezed out of the lands that they have hunted and fished on for generations, but not by wildfire or even by Federal and State regulations this time, but by German royalty who is buying up land and prohibiting public access to places that we have hunted and fished on for generations. It was reported last month that the German royals now control 7.3 percent of Wahkiakum County.
Now, our local economies and way of life are at risk. I have been told by some in my community that frustrations are so high that without resolution there can only be a violent boiling point.
but at the hands of a management company whose investors are halfway around the world, this shows that something has gone deeply wrong with how we think about and regulate land and local ownership.
to invest back into it. Loyalty to place is grounding, a necessary practice in this fractured and polarized world.