Federally Owned Land

% Of Federal Land Per State

Nevada

81%

Utah

67%

Idaho

62%

Alaska

62%

Oregon

53%

Wyoming

48%

California

48%

Arizona

42%

Colorado

36%

New Mexico

35%

Montana

29%

Washington

29%

**Congressional Research Service - CRS Report for Congress

…to fund Education, take better care of the Environment, grow the Economy, and attain Energy Independence. We can’t afford not to transfer title to the States and control our lands!

Only Solution Big Enough

To advance prosperity and self-reliance, improve the health of public lands, and provide increased funding for public education by securing and defending local control of land access, land use and land ownership of public and private lands. Learn more about what you can do atwww.americanlandscouncil.org

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57 Million Acres

Federal control of public lands is destroying forests

and watersheds, shutting off access, constricting economic

opportunity, breaking state and local government

budgets, and threatening our way of life!

It’s Time For Change

State or Federal Control?The Statehood Promises (enabling acts) are the same, to transfer title to the public lands for all

states east and west of Colorado. Why the Difference?

Our schools are losing millions of dollars annually because of federal land ownership in Utah.

There is “more recoverable oil” in UT, CO, & WY “ than the rest of the world combined” (US GAO)

Failed federal forest policies have turned what was a productive, healthy asset into an environmental

hazard and economic liability.

90%Of all the lands in Il, MO, AL, AR, IN, and FL

were federally controlled for decades.

52%Is the average amount

of land in the 13 Western States that is federally controlled.

4%Is the average amount of

land contolled by the federal government in

the other 37 states.

As much as 90% of all lands in Illinois and Missouri (and AL, LA, AR, IN, FL, etc.) were

federally controlled for decades! The promises are the same to dispose of the

public lands. In 2009, the U.S. Supreme

Court declared that Congress doesn’t have the

authority to unilaterally change “the uniquely

sovereign character” of a state’s admission into the Union, particularly “where

virtually all of a state’s public lands are a stake.”

It’s Been Done Before

Transfer Public Landswww.americanlandscouncil.org

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226 Million Acres 33 Million Acres 30 Million Acres

48 Million Acres 31 Million Acres 24 Million Acres

27 Million Acres 27 Million Acres 12 Million Acres