re: #209 theheat

Managing resources usually means putting a for sale sign on the property and selling to the person who’ll pay the most money. Then let them manage it, develop it, trash it, exploit it, whatever. The BLM leases land to all kinds of ventures, and a lot of Real American™ ranchers bank on grazing their livestock on it. (A less welfare-y name for welfare, they can live with.)

People whine about rural areas and farmland turning into housing developments. Well, it isn’t as if the land was confiscated (usually!). Somebody - some Real American™ - sold it to the highest bidder, and whoever bought it decided its fate.

in the Sangrias of northern NM almost all the land that ended up in public hands was stolen from the Hispanios…there have been several books written to try and explain how it went down….so in many places there is the underlying, and true notion, that the feds never had a right to the land anyway….classic stuff, the Pueblos got a much better deal from the feds than the Hispanios ever did