[DoodleDawg]

He’s right, of course. All of the public lands should have been turned over to the state, when the territory became a state.

Nothing requires the federal government from doing do, and the Oregon Enabling Act specified what went to the state and what remained with the government.

But there’s no way the courts will agree with him.

No reason why they should.

[jdege]

The Constitution grants the federal government authority over “Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings” - and nothing else.

[Hieronymus]

No reason why they should.

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Easy for you to say, writing from Missouri where the Feds own a wopping 3.0%.

It goes against the principals of equality and self-government.

Having grown up in a county that was over 80% federally owned, it matters. Why should most of the rest of the country run (and ruin) our lives.