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To: TimF who wrote (920742)	2/12/2016 12:02:48 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575517

"Owning your own land and doing what you want with it, isn't a "special interest"." They don't own public land: the public does. "Getting the government to do what you want with it, or getting the government to own it and pay for its upkeep but allow you to do what you want with it (while excluding others) is a case of a special interest" Yup; the people logging, mining, drilling, and grazing on land they don't own are all special interests. = While some of the federal lands are private lands that were purchased or gifted to the government, close to 100% of the BLM lands have been federal land since they were acquired by the United States in purchase (such as the Louisiana Purchase) and conquest (the Mexican Cession). These have never been private lands, state lands, county lands or “local lands.” Up until the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 they were generally called the “public domain,” and they were an unmanaged commons. There were many ways to privatize them such as the railroad land grants and the well known Homestead Act (now repealed). By the 1930s, the amount of privatization had greatly dwindled and the remaining public domain was largely an overgrazed, giant vacant lot in the West. Message 30454400