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Then fight for it.

Honestly, I haven't seen any one from alaska fighting for local control of your land. I've seen the amount of land in federal hands (there's a map online of it) and alaska is obscene.

Yet you're the first person I've ever heard of suggesting you take it back - which you should.

Maybe it's a big deal in alaska, but I can guarantee you almost nobody outside of there knows that it's an issue. So you need to make it one.

In fact, I was thinking of this a few weeks ago as a way around the rinos and ANWR - give back a large portion (or whatever you can to start) to alaska, and let it develop it as it chooses. That's what should happen, but instead we have a continuation of a broken system where the bad things are done and justified by saying bad things have been done in the past.

"....give back a large portion (or whatever you can to start) to alaska, and let it develop it as it chooses. That's what should happen..."

In a perfect world, you bet. In fact, part of the deal at statehood was that our state was going to have control over our natural resources - including ANWR oil. If that had happened, this wouldn't have been an issue, since the bridge would have been built long ago, along with the needed roads throughout the state.

Then fight for it. Honestly, I haven't seen any one from alaska fighting for local control of your land. I've seen the amount of land in federal hands (there's a map online of it) and alaska is obscene. Yet you're the first person I've ever heard of suggesting you take it back - which you should. Maybe it's a big deal in alaska, but I can guarantee you almost nobody outside of there knows that it's an issue. So you need to make it one. In fact, I was thinking of this a few weeks ago as a way around the rinos and ANWR - give back a large portion (or whatever you can to start) to alaska, and let it develop it as it chooses. That's what should happen, but instead we have a continuation of a broken system where the bad things are done and justified by saying bad things have been done in the past.

Thank you so much for THAT post! I wasn't going to post a comment to you but now....well, I just have to. You sure stepped in it this time. This post of yours confirms what I've been thinking about you. You do NOT know a hill of beans about Alaska, it's people, the fight they've been fighting in what seems like FOREVER. So, because you don't know much about Alaska, perhaps it would behoove you to stop slamming Alaska and learn a bit more before you speak.

We have been fighting. The list of broken promises goes back to Statehood. Google ANILCA, Alaska Native land Claims, Prudhoe Bay etc. Too often we Alaskans have been depicted as the greedy, blue eyed Arabs of the north. Add to that the international environmental organizations with hundreds of millions of dollars and slick lawyers in their employ and you can see what an uphill battle we have. Instead of fighting us and buying into a liberal line of ignorance, conservatives should help us work to de-fund the environmental extremists that are blocking our progress.