Because the feds do such a fine job of managing the land. /s
how about getting rid of all federal land except military bases? Could pay down some of the debt!
Immigration and Political correctness are his issues. Just look at the pushback over the lack of black oscar nominees. Trump doesn’t have anything to do with it?
Do some reading about Alabama’s management of its state park system for an example of how states can mismanage resources. The GOP governor and legislature have done a fine job of diverting funds from the parks to the general fund. Two years ago they were threatening to shut down the entire system. Zero effort to make the system self sufficient. Other states have closed parks, reduced maintenance, and cut hours.
Short tem and misguided management doesn’t just occur at the federal level. Many of the ills of federal management of public lands can be cured by a new president through the regulatory process, executive action, and replacement of appointees. A real president would develop a compressive long term plan for public lands and submit it to Congress for approval.
I spend about a third of the year camping on state and federal government lands. I’ve seen the best and the worst. I’ve talked to rangers and administrators. Remove the leftist environmentalist political appointees, and the bean counter bureaucrats who never spend time on the land, and return management of the land to real conservationists.
It makes no sense to just turn lands over to the states when most states are struggling to balance their budgets without the responsibility of managing millions of acres of gifted lands. I suspect Jerry Brown and the California legislature would love to take over federal lands and make them off limits to the people. Oregon, Washington and other Dem states would do the same. Some of the GOP states would likely let foreign companies come in, strip the lands of natural resources, and leave the lands barren like the Appalachians were stripped by loggers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Feds did pretty good till the ONE took over.
They are rewilding for agenda 21. Get the people off the land. Return 50% to the wild. All people shall live in apartment buildings in designated areas.
There will be no property rights, hunting, fishing, ranching etc in the world they are rapidly bringing to fruition.
Trumps son was speaking the other day about how our federal lands have become wastelands, he had been hunting and camping since he was a child and he said our government lands have become a disgrace ! TRUMP said at that time our forests NEED to be thinned and our public lands need to be taken care of, be damned the EPA!!! He seems more like a guy to turn the lands over to the PRIVATE sector!!! He did a GREAT job on the ice rink in Manhattan, I think he is looking at what happened to this wonderful rink under state control!!!! His sons are AVID hunters, fishers and campers!!! They have seen our public lands across the country deteriorate he BLAMES the EPA!!!! I think the EPA will be a ghost town in DC under Trump!!!
Like during the Dakota God Rush that lead to the Indian Wars?