Transfer of Federal Lands to the States

Off Pavement wrote:

LenSatic wrote:
Just read a story in the local paper about a 4th generation rancher who deeded the family ranch to the FS several years ago. So, since 1905, 4 families have owned this property and raised their children and grandchildren, earned a living, and lived their dream.

Then this woman, who inherited it, decides to deed it to the Forest Service because someone might build a Wal-Mart Super Center on it! Of course she never considered that she may have deprived someone else from living their dream of owning a small ranch at the base of the Huachuca Mountains. And what did she get out of "deeding" it to the FS? Tax write-off maybe? Just asking. http://www.svherald.com/free_access/loving-the-ranching-lifestyle/article_ea761388-18c1-11e6-b479-abdb20b7a05a.html

That property is now, forever, out of the ranching and lifelong dream inventory.

And NO, Wal-Mart would not have even considered that land.

LS

Did we read the same article LS? You certainly put your opinion stamp on what was printed trying to change the context to support your point of view.

How so? Did I miss some mention of the Walmart real estate director calling her up and offering to buy the property? Or any other developer for that matter? Did she even put it on the market? Heck, I may have wanted it for me and my family but now I will never get the chance.

Are there any cattle on it now(?) No. Yet they still call it a ranch.

If you are talking the "circle of ownership", Arizona didn't become a state until 1912, 7 years after original owner bought it from a federal government that was actually trying to settle the territory.

LS