The feds should not control 45% of California, Or a large percentage of any sovereign state. The feds gave up control of public lands in all other states early on per the constitution except for those here in the west. All so-called federal public lands within sovereign state boundaries should be sold, homesteaded, or turned over to the states except for that land specifically enumerated by the constitution for the feds as necessary for forts, buildings, dock yards, etc.
Just looking at that red map that some freeper posts every now and then is a visual lesson that something went terribly wrong when the Fed got out to the west.
When the nation was operating as intended in the early years, it did not hold onto very much in any state. And the truth is that it also had control of public lands in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, etc., etc. It disposed of it in accordance with the intent of the Constitution.