Do some reading about Alabama’s management of its state park system for an example of how states can mismanage resources. The GOP governor and legislature have done a fine job of diverting funds from the parks to the general fund. Two years ago they were threatening to shut down the entire system. Zero effort to make the system self sufficient. Other states have closed parks, reduced maintenance, and cut hours.
Short tem and misguided management doesn’t just occur at the federal level. Many of the ills of federal management of public lands can be cured by a new president through the regulatory process, executive action, and replacement of appointees. A real president would develop a compressive long term plan for public lands and submit it to Congress for approval.
I spend about a third of the year camping on state and federal government lands. I’ve seen the best and the worst. I’ve talked to rangers and administrators. Remove the leftist environmentalist political appointees, and the bean counter bureaucrats who never spend time on the land, and return management of the land to real conservationists.
It makes no sense to just turn lands over to the states when most states are struggling to balance their budgets without the responsibility of managing millions of acres of gifted lands. I suspect Jerry Brown and the California legislature would love to take over federal lands and make them off limits to the people. Oregon, Washington and other Dem states would do the same. Some of the GOP states would likely let foreign companies come in, strip the lands of natural resources, and leave the lands barren like the Appalachians were stripped by loggers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I don’t give a damn about Alabama mismanaging their resources.
Its not my problem, I’ll worry about my own state.
“Just turning lands over to the states” is a constitutional requirement. There are specific constitutional guidelines for the feds to own land within a state (Art I, Sec 8, Cl 17). The feds are way out of bounds here and must relinquish these lands that have not been obtained constitutionally.
Constitutional federal limitations don’t have to make sense to you, me, or anyone else. The Constitution, not personal moral or opinion, is the Supreme Law of the Land and the ONLY legal protector of our political freedom against federal tyranny.
We’ll all be better off and our society a much happier place if we would abandon the rule of the whims and cunning craftiness of man which is tyranny and once again embrace the rule of law, the Constitution, our only legal bulwark against federal tyranny.
Where do you think the Feds get the money to “manage” the land?
Hint; it comes from the states.
So who do you think could do a better job with that money Fedzilla of the States themselves?
Don’t like the way the state does it? Much easier to vote them out than trying to get your congress critter to change anythings through Fedzilla.
What do you think?