You are acting out of emotion. Please do some research before you post.
For starters, I think any sale of public lands should be at public auction, with advance notice to all interested parties in the area. This would cut out the crony socialism and crony capitalism.
Also, there are water rights, grazing rights, mineral rights etc. for many properties in the West. It is RARE to have “clear title” to ALL land rights in many areas of the West. Those “vested interests” or vested rights would attach to the property of course, regardless of ownership, unless and until the mineral rights or grazing rights or water rights were also sold.
The Feds own FAR too much land. The Feds control FAR too much land.
To understand you have to think like a billionaire, a financial elite.
They make sure the Fed govt owns land to hold it aside.
Later, when the elites, or future elites, have a project to use the land for, it can be sweethearted to them for a cheap price.
If “their” Fedgov did not own the land, it would start getting bought up and used.
Oh my !
What if there were 2,000 Bundy families with ranches all over those few hundred thousand acres ?
There weren’t.
Just one Bundy on a few thousand acres, and hundreds of thousands of acres of “gubmint” land.
You and I could approach any CongressCritter(tm), if we had enough money, and they’d be open to doing a land deal with us.
It’s like a “community chest” for elite crooks.
Thank you, but you assume far too much. Yes, the govey owns and controls far too much. No argument there. In order to prevent crony this and crony that is no simple step. This is federal land now to be sold. If you think certain segments of society could be prohibited from participating in the bidding process, you may be short sighted. Moreover, if you think that even if only “locals” or people “in the area” were in the bidding, and that would prevent backers from backing a “local”, that would be shortsighted. Still further, what are the long term covenances, if any. Do you think the local buyer would be restricted from selling to a developer at a later time? That tends to go against title to land.
Agree that the different rights may be severed in some way. As you see, I am very cynical of those who would put this in motion, set up the rules, and actually be buyers. But far too many ways to scam the system.