Tenth Amendment need to be taken seriously. The fedgov overreach has overflowed into a global takeover of American soil for foreign interests. The parasites called politicians, not all but too many to be health for this nation, need to be reminded of who they work for.

I think it is past time these states take control of their lands. The Feds. only turn it over to the UN, or allow politicians access. Do we really need more of our US land declared UN Heritage Sites, with access limited? Do we really need hundreds of acres of buffer zone via taken private property for these sites. It's past time to stop this nonsense..

No part of the Constitution is sacrosanct to the Obama regime. It has been trashed, smashed, squeezed and expanded in order to suit their agendas. As far as those in power in Washington is concerned, the document might not as well exist. So far, almost every article and especially the 1st 10 amendments have either been distorted or discarded.

YES!!!!!

This is what needs to happen. The Federal government easily owns more than half the lands of the Western states.

People who live in rural areas are far more able to manage those areas!

There's no legality or words in the Constitution that will make the Feds turn over control of not only the land, but more - the resources on and under that land. The BLM was a part of Roosevelt's replacement of Constitutional governance with socialist and bureaucratic technocrat government accomplished in the 30's. It was sold to westerner's as the government's way of helping out the small ranchers in management and maintenance of open range and undesignated lands as well as a fight against the corruption of many western state legislators and cronies.

Now it's just become another way for the Feds to suck money out of state coffers and pass gratuities to Congress's pals. I just doubt that the states have any oomph left in them to counter the Feds.

Unfortunately, though my heart is very much with the states, and in theory, yes this land should all go back to the States, I see some realistic issues. And we do, after all live, in the real world. The states actually did cede these lands to the federal government as blackmail for becoming states, so that will muddy the legal waters. Then, and maybe this is hypocritical, but I, for one, am not quite willing to give up all the national parks, which i think is a natural consequence of this line of thinking. Those parks are amazing pieces of natural heritage, but as in all things governmental, it has gone too far with all the conservation reserves and preserves and the national forests and all these quasi-eminent domain takings.

Thanks for posting this, freedomforall ! It's high
time for the West to own their own land as per
the Equal Footings Clause with the East.
Someone once wrote: "Without land man is
nothing." Of course, so let us support those willing to work towards this goal.

News reporter said the Bundy' s had "high power machine guns". Good grief!!!