Ping................
So you listened to Steyn today and decided to rip off his material and credit your blog?
Wow. Typical I guess.
What we really need is one big crazy Oklahoma-style Land Run.
It is about time someone wrote about this agency. Like the UN, it needs to be abolished.
Silly argument. BLM is we the people. What would you prefer, state control and 50 different rules? Private ownership and denying the people access or benefit from land that is ours? This topic is so far down the priority list its not worth wasting time on even in a blog.
I wanted to issue a small correction/update:
The BLM as it exists today was formed in 1946. However, much of their current holdings, as well as their current culture as a modern progressive bureaucracy owes much to Roosevelt’s run-arounds of congress and his 1000+ executive orders, most of which were related to convervationism. Over the last hundred years of progressive governance, there has been much overlap and passing around of land between the Department of the Interior, the National Park Service, and others.
My comment was primarily aimed at the culture that was created within government by the 26th president, not so much the minutae of which department ended up owning which parcels of land on an executive order by executive order basis, and how it would have shook out later over time.
It should be noted that the National Park Service was not created until 1916, roughly 8 years after TR left office. Prior to the progressive era, government engaged in considerably less land hoarding. Nowadays, environmentalism and land use are synonymous terms to out of control, bossy government.
See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3447792/posts
Tell me about it, from a family who has leased BLM land for over 100 years, they are tyrants. They are actually easier on us because they get huge lease payments from companies who put towers on top of our mountain but our neighbors have real hell. Most of this area has been a wilderness study area for 30 years. Just a way to control people.
I know a lot of ranchers who charge trespass fees for people who have to cross their private land. We haven’t done it but there is just one access point of the whole 14k acres that is not on private land and you can just access a small portion from there. We like to stay under the radar.
How can 10 square miles be a high 26th rank? /s