this kind of stuff needs to be left to the states.
The upside to this is that it prevents LA real estate developers from building cities in the desert that’ll have to depend on water from as far away as British Columbia and the Great Lakes.
The Sierra club is a vermin agenda 21 group.
Is this where they’re planning to stash all the refugees ..??
“The Restoration of State Lands Act of 2017.”
In recognition that despite having only limited powers to nationalize state lands for the purposes of Indian treaties and military reservations, this act creates a formal process for states to recover such lands taken by the federal government by decree or court order, for purposes outside of its constitutional authority.
While it may continue to *suggest* that states manage their lands in such a way as to conserve or even preserve places of unique value for many reasons; the states will no longer be obligated to do so. Nor will federal officers, agents, employees, or contractors carry out any authoritative, managerial, or enforcement activities on those state lands without state approval.
And this act will apply to not just the surface environment, but to the mineral rights below, and the airspace above these lands lower than 10,000 feet.
"Unable to gain momentum on her California Desert Conservation and Recreation Act last year, Feinstein and conservation groups asked Obama to act unilaterally to create the three monuments overlapping biological zones between roughly Palm Springs and the Nevada border."
Unilaterally! Isn't that what kings and dictators do?