[Mr Rogers]

The reason much of the land in the west went unclaimed, in spite of efforts to give it away, can be seen from this picture:

I am confident the states can manage it better than the feds. I wish the folks working this conference all the best, and will support them politically in any way I can. But we shouldn't pretend that the federal government ended up owning this land out of greed. They just could not give much of it away because in many places, land without water rights is nothing.

[JRandomFreeper]

But we shouldn't pretend that the federal government ended up owning this land out of greed.

You always seem to come across as apologist for the federal government.

It's time to get the feds out of the land business.

/johnny