Ranchers defy U.S. in grazing parched Nevada lands, environmentalists say

The feds were supposed to turn over the land in Utah last Jan 1st but didn't, so now the other states are moving to pass their own legislation.

Because the Utah legislature passed a law saying they had to? Don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen. Federal land is federal land and Utah can't force them to turn it over.

Will somebody please explain to me, in terms of numbered constitutional clauses, what “federally managed” land is?

Land owned by the federal government.

To the best of my knowledge, the feds have control over land only when they pay for it under the terms of either the eminent domain clause of the 5th Amendment, or the Constitution’s Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I.

If the federal government didn't own the land to begin with then how could they create states like Utah or Nevada?

So do the feds have a sales receipt for the “federally managed” land in question?

They took it from the Mexicans in 1848.

Also, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate environmental issues. So while the states need to protect the environment, why are environmentalists concerned about compliance with unconstitutional federal drought orders?

Huh?

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