Feds should never have confiscated a States land in the first place. All states should be able to control and use the resources within their boundaries....or do they still have borders?
The feds didn't confiscate State lands. After ratification of the Constitution, the original 13 states ceded their trans-Appalachian land claims to the federal government. Had they not done so -- and had we still been Europeans -- Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, and others would still be fighting wars over who owned which mountaintop or swamp in what is today Tennessee or Ohio, because several of those old British crown grants overlapped. But the cessation was made, and at a stroke everything from the crest of the Appalachians to the Mississippi became federal lands, with new states to be carved out of it as the west was settled.
The country then expanded via the Louisiana Purchase, the purchase of Florida from Spain, the seizure of the southwest and California from Mexico, the settlement with Great Britain in the Pacific Northwest, and the purchase of Alaska. ALL of these lands entered the Union as federal lands.
The only exceptions to this rule were Texas and Hawaii, both of which were independent republics before joining the Union.
And the federal government did NOT cede all lands to new states upon the creation of the states. This is a common error, widely believed by some modern state lands advocates who do not read their history. The federal government made large land grants to new states for several public purposes, but it retained the rest and ran federal land offices to sell land to new settlers. This was an important source of federal revenue in the early federal period. Later on, Abraham Lincoln and the first Republican Congress passed the Homestead Act to give federal lands to new settlers; the key here, for our purposes, is to note that they were dispensing federal, not state, lands. The issue that troubles us today is that federal policy changed in the late 19th century, as the frontier reached the desert and mountain west, most of it unsuitable for agriculture. Congress found itself selling federal lands not to sturdy yeoman farmers/homesteaders, but to large timber and mining companies. The policy changed, and the feds retained large holdings in the western states.
Put it this way: the Constitution and the federal government were creations of the first 13 states. Thirty-five of the remaining 37 states were creations of the federal government, having begun life as federal territories. Texas and Hawaii, again, are the exceptions.