>>I've been told on these pages
>>it's all goin back to
>>the states to be sold
>>off and fenced out?
>
>Fact --Official Platform of the Republican
>Party... "Congress shall immediately pass
>universal legislation providing for a
>timely and orderly mechanism requiring
>the federal government to convey
>certain federally controlled public lands
>to states."
>
It sounds a little different when you read the whole thing.....
The federal government owns or controls over 640 million acres of land in the United States, most of which is in the West. These are public lands, and the public should have access to them for appropriate activities like hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting. Federal ownership or management of land also places an economic burden on counties and local communities in terms of lost revenue to pay for things such as schools, police, and emergency services. It is absurd to think that all that acreage must remain under the absentee ownership or management of official Washington. Congress shall immediately pass universal legislation providing for a timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to states. We call upon all national and state leaders and representatives to exert their utmost power and influence to urge the transfer of those lands, identified in the review process, to all willing states for the benefit of the states and the nation as a whole.
Nowhere does it say all 640 million Acres of federally owned land will be immediately transferred to the states.
Can you tell me if the review process has taken place? Can you tell me which lands have been identified in the review process?
>Fact --Acres granted to Utah at
>Statehood - 7.5 Million Acres;
>Acres sold to private interests
>by Utah since that time
>- 4.1 Million Acres (Utah
>has already sold 54% of
>their original allotment)
>
This was the state trust land program completely separate and different from what's ahead of us. These State trust lands were known as school sections to be used by local communities to generate Revenue for schools. If the sections were sold money generated from the sale was to be invested in a trust and remain there creating a Revenue stream for public education.
>Fact --Total acres of Private land
>in Utah - 11.4 Million
>Acres; This means 36% of
>all private land in Utah
>was once state-owned. Think about
>how much private land there
>is in areas you want
>to hunt/fish and realize that
>over 1/3 of that was
>once public property.
>
It wasn't public property it was State trust land again a completely different situation than what we're talking about today. I'd love to see a map of the School sections that have been sold in Utah. I suspect many of them are in urban sprawl areas. Those in rural areas are probably still in state ownership. And I suspect like Colorado of those that are in rural areas only some of them can be accessed. Nothing has said these lands will be added to the state trust land program. Show me any documentation that says otherwise I would love to see it.
>Perfect Anecdotal Evidence --Comb Ridge outside
>Bluff was recently sold by
>SITLA to Lyman Family Farms
>which closed the road and
>thus access to public land
>(
http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4784759&itype=CMSID)
>
>The eventual demise of state-owned land
>is clear and indisputable. It
>is also indisputable that there
>is nothing in the land-transfer
>arsenal to prevent the privatization
>of public land. The only
>reason one has to believe
>the land will remain public
>is a politician's stump speech.
>This is no different than,
>"If you like your insurance
>plan, you can keep your
>insurance plan." How many of
>us are still on the
>same insurance plan? Anybody?
>
>Stand back and review the evidence
>with an open mind and
>there is no way a
>person can reach the conclusion
>that public land will remain
>public once its transferred to
>the state.
>
>Grizzly
>
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>
>
"It's time to revisit the widely
>accepted principle in the United
>States and Canada that game
>is a public resource."
>-Don Peay, Founder of SFW, as
>quoted in Anchorage Daily News
>
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