All the purple in the West? Yep, all land that FDR illegally seized with no due process or compensating the owners of the land whatsoever.
All the purple in the West?
All the purple in the West? Yep, all land that FDR illegally seized with no due process or compensating the owners of the land whatsoever.
lol good its literally the only thing i'm jealous about being from the northeast. i really dont care about farmer john and his 5 acres of desert
And?
If you want an oil drilling permit then go through the process. The feds hand them out to anyone asking and give enough massive tax subsidies to make the industry unnaturally profitable.
>oil drilling permits
>Biden
HA HA HA HA HA HA
Just think of how much fertile, arable Nevadan land is going to waste right now.
Imagine how many bustling city centers will never be built in scenic locations such as picrel purely due to the federal government's greed.
psyops
>bustling city centers in the middle of a desert with no water
>thatsthejoke.jpg
cmon bruh
It was federal land long before fdr
I'm from Texas and can tell you that wide open spaces ain't much to write about when it's all fenced off. Not that it's much to look at either... downright homely much of it is. And some places, well, ugly barely begins to cover it.
>I'm from Texas
Stopped reading there, paco.
What act did FDR use to seize the land? My understanding of the US was that a lot of western land was de facto owned by the US Federal Government from the beginning (all the way to the late 1700/early 1800s) and were literally selling it for pennies on the acre to get people to settle and establish homesteads there. It's how they got the ability to build railroads and people wanted to buy up property near them.
That big chunk of western purple is probably either unsold land because it's too unprofitable or inhospitable to tax or converted into national parks or some other shit.
iirc that would have applied when the West was territories and under direct Federal jurisdiction. once it was carved into states then they required the consent of the state it was in and appropriate monetary compensation unless the land was taken in the service of one of the enumerated powers of Congress (for example there was one Supreme Court case where they ruled that they did not need the consent of a state to construct a Federal courthouse on its soil). most of that land in the West was simply confiscated by FDR for no discernible purpose.
It was always Federal land. The "owners" had just been grazing their cattle (or doing whatever else they were doing) there illegally.
Title to Federal land didn't transfer to the states upon statehood; it's still Federal property even when it's under state jurisdiction. Also, some areas were reserved as federal jurisdiction as a condition of statehood.
Hoover tried to get states to accept responsibility for public land within their borders, but because it was the start of the Great Depression none of them wanted the extra burden on their budgets, especially since a lot of it had been overgrazed. When FDR came in, cleaning up the use of Fed property was part and parcel of dealing with that whole dustbowl situation.
To add onto this: the map in question is from the USGS survey, and it's only setup for specific kinds of ownership. For example, it's completely ignoring Indian Reservations, and large amounts of that land are actually things like national parks or various other efforts, they aren't "owned" by the President or something.
>a bunch of worthless desert with no water or fertile land
Technically, that land isn't even fit for human habitation. The only reason the population of the southwest is above 10,000 is because of improved fertilizer tech and massive government built infrastructure that pumps in water from other states.
That land has always been historically empty.
Good
t. Third Generation Nevadan
t. LBJfag
>anyone that isn't automatically a psychotic Ron Paul looneytoonarian is LBJfag
I still have access to the land, numbnuts. If it was private I wouldn't have any access
FDRs only redeeming quality
>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T SEIZE LAND NO ONE CARES ABOUT
Other than California, the states in the west wouldn't be able to afford to administer all of that federal land
You mean Indians?
Your mom is federal land.