Transfer of Federal Lands to the States

jwmII wrote:
It's a double edged sword. Neither the Feds or the various states are genuinely capable of managing these so called state and/or federal lands. What they are doing right now is just simply denying citizens the use and enjoyment of their public lands.
They do this under the cloak of it's for the good of the land or it's for your own good or the land needs to heal.
Meanwhile the developers and mining companies and many others are frequenting state land offices, The BLM, The Dept. of interior, the US congress and any other place where they think they might score a big land grab that they can turn over for Billions of Dollars. Another sore spot in all of this are the Washington Lobbyists. They are right down there with the other bottom feeders looking at capitalizing on every opportunity at grabbing a little acreage wherever they can. Don't forget state lobbyists either. Same thing.
In the meantime The BLM, The Dept. of interior, The Congress are not about to rock the boat and take a chance on their job being discontinued. All bureaucrats supping at the taxpayers trough.
They get their yearly increases in salary, their medical benefits, their teeth fixed, their new eye glasses, plus have no problems with sorting out that abomination called the Affordable Healthcare Act.
Things are going well for them and they are not about to change it.
And we sure don't want anything like California State Parks has where you have to make a reservation months ahead of time and where some try to reserve two spots so they don't have to park by someone.
That's just one example of a state run system. Even worse than the federal programs. So enjoy it while you can as others are hard at work trying to take it away from you.

I agree, state management would be much worse than federal management. There would be more opportunity for greed to prevail. We should do everything we can to keep our federal lands federal. The feds are not perfect, but at least they aren't selling the land. If states got the land, they likely would sell some of it. If sold, recreationists would lose access.