LAND GRAB

[reform]

Who's country is it?!?!?!



"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a for-profit federal corporation, issued a memo laying out its plans to seize 10 million additional acres across the Western states including, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming, California, and Utah.  The federal government already claims ownership or control of 84% of Utah and at least 68% of Nevada."

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/treasured-landscapes-actto-stea...
http://truthiscontagious.com/2011/05/05/treasured-landscapes-an-act...

1999 document:  (As of 1999 the U.S. government's BLM controls more than 10% of our land.  This does not include land controlled by other government agencies.  i.e.  Forest Department, Fish and Wildlife, National Parks, States, Cities, Counties, Water Districts, etc......)
Two provisions of the U.S. Constitution address the relationship of the federal government to lands. Article 1, §8, Cl. 17 requires cession by the states of exclusive jurisdiction over certain federal enclaves and consent of the legislature of the state in which the lands lie to the exercise of that type of jurisdiction by the federal government. Section 8 reads:

[Congress is authorized] To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings; ...

The BLM currently manages 267 million acres of land — 40.6% of all federal land and 11.8% of all land in the United States. A third of the BLM lands, 88.3 million acres, are in Alaska. The remainder are substantially concentrated in 11 western states, and account for significant amounts of land in most of those states. The BLM also manages 1.5 million acres in states east of the Rocky Mountains, including more than 100,000 acres in each of six states: Louisiana, Arkansas, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Alabama. BLM lands are administered for the sustained yield of multiple uses (including recreation, livestock grazing, timber harvesting, watershed protection, and wildlife and fish habitat management), although users typically want higher outputs than the BLM provides, while environmental groups typically want more protection (and lower outputs).

http://www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/risk/rsk-50.cfm