Posted on 06/07/2013 12:57:58 PM PDT by ThethoughtsofGreg
On June 4, 2013, Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law AB227—“Nevada Land Management Implementation Committee”—making Nevada the fifth western state to actively explore the transfer of public lands to western states. AB227 creates the Nevada Land Management Task Force, which will conduct a study addressing the transfer of public lands in the state.
This movement advocating for the transfer of western public lands began in Utah in 2012.
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They need space to figure out how to run the UFOs.
I think the feds control around 87% of Nevada.
Because they own it. All the land from the Louisiana Purchase and the Alaska purchase and the Gadsden Purchase and all the land captured from Spain belonged to the U.S. Who else would it belong to? When states were created the feds deeded some, but not all land to them. Other land was acquired by individuals through farm homesteads and the like. The remainder belongs to the feds. If Nevada wants to control all that land then I'm sure Congress would quote them a very nice price.
Hasn’t it already be used as collateral for loans from China?
I don't see where that authorizes the Federal government to own anything more than listed.
/johnny
You would be surprised how much the Feds control Nevada and what’s there.
They need room for their data storage facilities...
You have it backwards, especially in the case of Nevada.
When Nevada was formed, the state (and the landowners) were given the opportunity to claim lands they wanted. The state could have claimed much more than they did.
They claimed (typically) only the riparian areas - which you can see looking at a land ownership map of the state. You see pretty solid private ownership from Reno down to Minden, Smith Valley and Yerington... and some in Vegas (which used to have natural springs where the east end of The Strip now is), and in the Elko/Wells area.
The feds took the lands that no one claimed.
When the UPRR was built, the US Government gave every other section for 10 miles on either side of the RR tracks to the UPRR as compensation for building the RR.
Other states in the west, which came into the union later than Nevada, got much smarter about this, and claimed many sections of land for state use, even if all they did was lease them out for grazing.
The entire way that Nevada entered the Union was a rush-rush issue, and there were many in Carson City who had, as their entire focus, the silver mines of Virginia City, a little farming on the west side of the state... and jack-all else.
As I recall from my Nevada History course at UNR, the state entered into the Union during the civil war because of the silver mines in Virginia City which the North desperately needed, hence the state motto: Battle Born
As I recall, a condition of statehood was the transfer of all lands not being utilized to the Fed.
I have NEVER considered the federal gov as “owning” the land, but rather as managing the land. They own jack!
All federally managed lands should be returned to the states except those lands defined in the US Constitution.
Article IV, Section III: "The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state."
The Democrats won’t give it to the States. They need it to give back to Mexico for reparations as part of our inevitable apology for winning the Mexican-American War.
...as part of our inevitable apology for winning the Mexican-American War.
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And as part of our apology to the corrupt, dysfunctional Mexico, for building our stable and vibrant economy and a decent society, with political power that is not rife with corruption, where officials act according to duty and not for bribes. Well, at least, that is what we used to have.
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