The Constitution provides for limited federal lands within each state, originally assumed to be about 1 to 2%, to be purchased for post roads, forts, arsenals, etc. How is it, then, that the federal government owns 62% of Alaska and 47% of 11 border-sharing Western states, including Utah? (Just a hint: vast oil and mineral reserves exactly underlie confiscated lands.) Federal land theft is a polished art, with federal ownership at 635 million acres, or 28% of available US land, most of it in the West, according to the Congressional Research Service. heraldextra/news/opinion/utah-valley/wyoming-federal-land-grab-what-it-means-for-utah/article_acbe93ee-c907-59a1-a1c7-a6b3e55776a5.html
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 03:14:49 +0000
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