Transfer of Federal Lands to the States

highplainsdrifter wrote:

BoonHauler wrote:

highplainsdrifter wrote:


If the states gained control and found themselves pressured to sell the land because they couldn't afford to manage it, I don't think vast acreages would be sold overnight. Instead, I think it would be a slow but steady drip. In 20 to 30 years it would amount to significant acreage.

There are many people clamoring to purchase federal land. These include real estate developers, municipalities surrounded by federal land, mineral companies, ranchers who want adjacent land, timber companies, etc.

We can speculate how much and how fast it would occur. But it would be a slippery downhill slope, and I don't want to start down that slope. The eastern states started down that slope a long time ago. Now many of them have very little public land left.

Let's treasure what is special about the Western United States!

HPD:

He's the rub I have with this statement and position that you take. Are Public Land is ALREADY being closed to motorized traffic (boondocking), already being sold or leased for (insider) private commercial ventures, etc., all under federal management.

For some strange reason you take the position that it's not happening, it ALREADY is!

I don't get it, when will you realize that your exact statement that I just quoted IS already happening under Federal control!

You really think it's not happening?.... I mean come on man!

On April 8th I posted this:

"The feds are far from perfect. The trend is to put more restrictions on uses such as ATVing, especially in states that have a vocal "environmental" population. This gets my goat, because I like ATVing (and some other things the enviros don't like)."

So yes, I am fully aware there are some restrictions on federal land. As I said, some of them get my goat. But let me ask you this: If federal lands are sold to private parties, how many restrictions would you anticipate on that private property? It has been my experience that private property owners typically don't hang up a sign saying "Public Welcome, No Fees and No Restrictions".

Again, everything that you've been warning us about SHOULD the States take control of Federal Public Lands is already happening under Federal control.

What do you not understand about this fact?

Shouldn't you be fighting the Feds for more Public control of the Lands?..... as hard as you are fighting to keep it out of the control of the States?

I just don't get it.