Nevada follows Utah in exploring transfer of public lands

Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Assembly Bill 227 into Nevada law Tuesday, approving the creation of the Nevada Land Management Task Force. The signing of AB 227 makes Nevada the fifth state to look into the movement initiated by Utah lawmakers that urges the federal government to transfer management of public lands over to state control.

In a press release issued by the American Lands Council, Nevada Assemblyman John Ellison, the primary sponsor of AB 227, said, “Gov. Sandoval and our state legislature have taken the first step in fulfilling our responsibility to our children and for the future of our state in making congress honor the same promise to Nevada that it made and kept with Hawaii and all other states east of Colorado.”

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The “promise” that Ellison refers to is what is referred to as a state’s “enabling act,” which is basically a statehood contract. When a state joins the country, part of its lands are held under federal jurisdiction – which land transfer proponents argue was only meant to be a temporary arrangement. While lands management was transferred to many states that lie east of Colorado, in the west this did not come about.

On March 23, 2012, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law House Bill 148, known as The Transfer of Public Lands Act. HB 148 was spearheaded by Rep. Ken Ivory and demands the federal government transfer control of the public lands to the state by the end of 2014.


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Good for Nevada and Utah. Thank God so many have been awakened by this power Hungary idiot in the WH. He cannot deal with being the most powerful man in the world, he wants to be the most powerful dictator in the world. I hate to tell him, but that wont happen, at least not w/o many fights. Every state should be applying for this measure to regain their land and do with their land what they want done.


I cannot imagine the United States allowing this to happen, but then again we have never had a situation as volatile as the one that exists in the United States before Obamma Ass took office. You really can't lay the responsibility of all this at his doorstep, as he has had an overabundance of help from OUR OWN CONGRESS AND SENATE. It is such a shame that money, and power has bastardized our nation to the extent that it has. We will be able to save our nation , but it will cost a lot of lives.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Any state that came into the union  to join America owns their land..ps...we the people own the land and we own the government...who do they think they are ????...a profit corporation????with guns???