The western States should shout again and again, we want our land, we want an equal footing, no hogging most of our territory.The deeded land in NM is but a speck compared to federal, state, military and tribal reserves and holdings.
Here is, of course, the Who Owns The West? map.
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/map-owns_the_west.jpg
Good, I’ve long thought that it will be the states that save the Republic.
Ping.
Its a good start but still going to have the EPA, OSHA, and the rest of the federal alphabet holding things up.
“demanding Washington return millions of acres to state control”
Hah! Good luck getting the power hungry Obastard administration to release control of even a single acre.
Anybody with functional observation skills would notice that the vegetation outside Zion NP is in vastly better shape than inside the park. I have photo-documented this difference.
Inside, cheat grass is everywhere. The forests are dying. Much of the brush is already dead. The soils are so crusted they won't permit native perennial grasses to establish because the water practically beads off cryptogamic crusts.
Outside the park on the same day (in July) the vegetation was green and there were ample wildflowers. Soils permitted infiltration.
The main reason for the difference is that managed disturbance promotes vegetative growth while the park is being "preserved" to death.
The western States should shout again and again, we want our land, we want an equal footing, no hogging most of our territory.They are approaching it wrong.
just pass a tax on land.
Looking a the scale of that map - $10 an acre wouldn’t cost many people much. But the feds would be paying $millions.