Stealing Nevada

This is all really interesting, but I don't understand all of the complexities. Someone help dial me if you are in the know. From what I understand, the land is going to be transferred from Federal Govt owned to the State, presumably a land trust. Nev is also about 85% owned by the feds if I recall. What is the evidence that this is all bad? Is it just rumor and speculation, which may very well be the accurate "smoke from the fire" or is there some hard data on what is going to happen to that land?

I also wonder about this in Washington/Oregon. It seems like our State has done a pretty good job of keeping the State land for public use, but perhaps I'm wrong. I'm not sure I want land transferred away from the Fed, but I sure as heck want them to actually start managing their lands. Specifically their timberlands. The spotted owl fiasco locked up all federal lands and all timber management. It has since just sat there unnaturally, without its historical fire cleaning. and become overly dense, bug infested, dead and full of fuels. Now all of that critical habit and wildlife etc is going up in smoke in epic hot fashion. The soil destruction is worse than loosing the trees. Couple that with the community devastation, anyone been to Klickitat lately?. That occurred after the timber supply loss from federal lands made those timber companies financially vulnerable; which left room for the green mail non-sense and finally many of the mills closed up along with the communities (I was part of one of these).

So, because of shite federal management, you've lost thousands and thousands and thousand of acres of habit AND destroyed entire communities (real families with real kids).

Its in no way apples to apples between us and Nevada but up here, the State vastly manages its land better as its people are close to it and actually work with the local communities, tribes and land owners to get real stuff done. I recently saw an article where the State was buying private lands on some river etc to provide public access. Pretty cool. I've seen the land trusts locally in the Gorge buy private lands and restore them. A far cry from a mass sell off. The fed however is just miles of red tape and "studies" but never any meaningful action. Then they claim "Gosh we need more tax dollars!?!!??" while sitting on excellent timber revenue and "shovel ready" jobs.

I'm not sure in the least I want Fed lands moved to the state, but its not like the Feds are doing anything good with it. I will say that regardless of who owns the land, we should equally be up-in-arms about the horrendous management. The land is no good if its all burned up.