Why public lands must remain in public hands
Without making this too political, there would be far less pushing by the states to get this land back if the federal government hadn&#x27;t gone on a (ahem) roughly 8 year spree of turning it into enormous national monuments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bears_Ears_National_Monument#Designation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bears_Ears_National_Monument#D...</a><p>Turning federal land into national monuments greatly limits the traditional uses of these publicly held lands -- restrictions on livestock grazing, hunting, camping, etc.<p>Obviously there needs to be responsible land stewardship, but abusing the antiquities act to carve out enormous not-parks-but-not-free chunks of land isn&#x27;t the best way to get everyone working together there.