On Tuesday, Gov. Spencer Cox’s (R-Utah) office announced that the state had filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to gain control over 18.5 million acres currently under the agency’s control. According to a press release from the governor’s office, the state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a ruling on whether a federal agency can indefinitely control unappropriated land within a state.
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In this case, the contested land is national parks, monuments, wilderness areas, national forests, tribal lands, or military property. The case involves land that the BLM holds under the Federal Land Management Policy Act. The federal government is simply hanging on to the land but not for a specific purpose. The lands have never been designated
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