Posted on 03/06/2017 3:35:52 PM PST by BackRoads775
CARSON CITY — The decades-long battle over federal ownership of nearly 110,000 square miles of Nevada is about to be re-engaged at the Nevada Legislature.
With about 85 percent of those acres under control of a variety of federal agencies — primarily the U.S. Bureau of Land Management — some Nevada political leaders want a transfer of as many as 7 million acres to state control in a first phase that could eventually see large tracts of land become state lands.
Economic development is the primary driver for the introduction of Senate Joint Resolution 7, but some proponents see it as the first step in a state takeover of much of the federal public land in Nevada.
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No, never happen. These were and are federal public lands with good public access. No upside to giving these to the state, which already cannot afford to do things well and is increasingly liberal anyway.
The Federal owns about 80% of Nevada.
I am of the opinion that we need a constitutional amendment that limits the Federal ownership of land within a state to no more than 20%. All lands in excess of that 20% shall be returned to the state.
the land belongs to everyone,
not just the billionaire ‘rancher’ next door
( who expects to buy the land
at two cents an acre )
“returned to the state”
Lands cannot be “returned to the state” if the state never owned them in the first place.
The area known today as Nevada originally became federal property after the Mexican American War and administered as a territory.
Statehood did not come until 1864. Any lands not settled, granted to the state, or open for homesteading remained federal property.
Now I agree with your premise that the state should own the land within its borders, but the feds would have to grant the ownership to the state, which could likely be done through legislation at the federal level.
semantics
turned over to the state
returned to the state
same difference. In the end, the state owns the land.
No. The land should be sold to the highest bidder that would develop the property to have the highest tax base. Privatize these assets to allow entrepreneurial creativity.
This should clear this up for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb7Or-f62jY
If you need more depth watch his series of 3 lectures given to WSSA. This guy is a real rabble-rouser, who would have thought the Constitution could be so disturbing.
If that is what the state wants to do, more power to them.
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