Agree with your essay except for giving the National Forest to the States to manage.
Kooky environmentalists in Oregon and California legislatures will be worse at managing than the Feds. Sell or lease them to private logging industries to manage.
Our state, Oregon, and Kate Brown cannot be trusted with our precious forrests.
There is a Constitutional Act called the Enabling Act which requires the state to sell it to the people. It is how every state was sold prior to the Civil War.