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Ease Federal Control of the Nation's Lands
Real Clear Policy ^ | Jan. 28, 2017 | Rob Natelson

Posted on 01/29/2017 11:20:09 AM PST by Twotone

Interior secretary nominee Ryan Zinke served his country honorably as a Navy SEAL, but in affirming that he would refuse to loosen the federal government’s chokehold on America’s land, he did the U.S. a great disservice.

Reasonable people can disagree about how much territory the government should own. As an avid outdoorsman, I’m sympathetic to the conservation ideal. Zinke should know, however, that federal land ownership is often at war with that ideal. There is no reasonable excuse for the federal bureaucracy to control a whopping half of the American West, nearly 30 percent of the nation, and over 60 percent of the territory of some states. Most of this federal land is perfectly ordinary — prairie, desert, scrubland, and so forth — not wilderness areas or national parks.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bearsears; grandstaircase; interiordept; mittromney; ryanzinke
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To: Texas Eagle

Article IV, Clause 2 doesn’t agree with you.


21 posted on 01/29/2017 1:39:16 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Texas Eagle
I think Ohio and Nevada are the most famous examples.

The federal government owns 1.6% of Ohio, most of it the Wayne National Forest.

22 posted on 01/29/2017 1:43:28 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: veracious
Give all states land back to the states.

Why not sell it back to the states? Congress can do that by a simple majority vote.

23 posted on 01/29/2017 1:44:31 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Twotone

The first job of these nominees is to get confirmed - and for that, I could less what they say to achieve that goal.

After that, I’ll start to worry...but not too much yet, since he does ANSWER TO TRUMP!

(deal with it, leftists lurking here)


24 posted on 01/29/2017 1:59:02 PM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: DoodleDawg

Yeah and it owns 86% of Nevada!


25 posted on 01/29/2017 8:16:10 PM PST by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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To: B4Ranch
Yeah and it owns 86% of Nevada!

Congress has the ability to change that with a simple majority vote. All those people leasing grazing rights? Sell them the land outright. All that wilderness and desert? Sell it to the states. Easy peasy.

26 posted on 01/30/2017 3:49:27 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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