How can the State of Alaska manage it's massive preponderance of federal lands when it can't even manage it's own current budget?   Answer:  the plan all along has been that when states find that they can't manage these massive areas of public lands throughout the U.S. (read: "socialism"), they'll sell them off to their salivating corporate constituency  in the name of "job creation" and everyone will buy the story while enthusiastically waving their flag.  Fact is, this idea is nothing more than the biggest land swindle since the days our future American heritage was stolen from the Natives in the name of  Manifest Destiny.   Zinke is right to hold his ground here and maintaining federal land ownership may very well be the only sane thing that comes out of a Trump administration.