BLM should be split up along with the lands they administer and handed off to the states.
And, really, the lands themselves should be sold off by lottery to US citizens. And BLM disbanded.
Aside from military bases and office complexes, the federal government has no need to own vast swaths of land.
East of the Mississippi River....the federal government rarely controls more than two percent of a state’s land resources. West of Texas....it’s closer to sixty to seventy percent. All of this...because of Roosevelt’s attitude on the government holding the land as a natural resource.
Personally, I think it’s time to talk land resources. I can see some agree on forest areas to be saved....as we did east of the Mississippi. But the general limit ought to be less than ten percent of a state can be federally retained. Start dispensing of the properties....limiting sales of land to 400 acres per person....per decade. No foundation or company purchases. If you don’t live on the property, you lose the property within two years.
BLM and the forestry mafia can all downsize. If the fed guys want to hand some of the property over to states themselves....fine, limit them to ten percent as well. Once you put the live-on the property rule into effect...none of these environmental hoodlums will participate.
I agree. They should sell it all off and use the proceeds to pay down the debt.