Transfer of Federal Lands to the States

monkey44 wrote:
One of the problematic issues with such designations, it can change minutely over time and number of changes. When a tiny step takes place - it's rationalized as "a tiny step" a very small change. Then over time, twenty small changes becomes a very large changes from the original charter.

Each time, the justification becomes "a tiny change" - but doesn't recognize the accumulation of multiple small revisions. Suddenly it goes from "OK, percent you can lease 20 percent, then next time, OK, it's only 20 percent more - now it's 40 percent ... pretty soon, well we can lease it, why not sell 20 percent and keep 80 percent ...

OK, we can sell 20 percent, why not sell JUST 40 percent ... pretty soon it's, well, let's keep at least 10 percent for the public use. And bingo, we lost nearly every acre of usable public land in tiny steps, and what remains is primarily inaccessible and pushes the remaining wildlife into a small portion of what was once a large wilderness habitat.

Allow me to turn that on it's head. The claim by the western ranchers is that BLM is nibbling away at the number of cattle that they can graze on the federally managed land. Say 1000 head 20 years ago has been reduced to 350 head now. That drives up the price of meat on your grill and down the profit for the rancher which will eventually drive them out of business and off their land.

Central Valley CA: how much do you enjoy eating that Delta Smelt that is driving farmers out of business due to restricted water use?

Building homes along the SOCAL coast. Can't build near El Segundo because of the El Segundo Blue Butterfly. Of course, there is also the Playa Del Rey Blue, Manhattan Beach Blue, El Porto Blue, Hermosa Blue, Redondo Blue, etc. all along the coast. Butterflies are not residents of specific beach cities.

The, so called, environmentalists have infiltrated the "conservationist" organizations in a effort to restrict growth; reduce it, even.

But we are to accept it so that we can camp for free? How about we force the FS and BLM to go back to their original charter to encourage and ensure responsible and profitable natural resource use for all?

LS