” management of more than 245 million acres of public land “
What’s that you say,,PUBLIC Land?
I am the public.
Just try to occupy a piece of the “public land” and see what happens. ;-)
The federal government has massive amounts of debt. Much of it could be paid off by permitting oil drilling, fracking and coal mining on these lands, with the lease revenue generating a lot of money.
The government would make a massive amount of money selling a lot of these managed lands to local people. For example, Ted Bundy might buy those acres he’s been grazing. The government gets money from the purchase, and Nevada then gains property taxes on it.
The problem is the government borrowing to lock up land from development and paying to manage it, because it has let the environmentalists take over.