Montana joint resolution to transfer federal public land

[wyosam]

Well for one all the land currently surrounded by private land that has zero access.

There are millions of acres the public can’t access, well other then the landowners of the surrounding property, they can access it and many include this blocked access when they sell to boost the value of their property, best thing we could do is sell all these parcels.

Or in places like the checkerboard in Wyoming, do some trading to create useable public blocks.


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[Gila]

Got this from HuntTalk, shows what percent of state lands have been sold in western states. Montana is on the lower side, but now we have a lot more big money in the state pulling strings.

Hunt talk data is rather misleading. In New Mexico today we have 9 million in surface acres and 13 million mineral acres. Also the amount of acres sold off since statehood is misleading because the South Western states acquired land from Spanish and Mexican Land grants. Some of that state land was transferred to federal land and other land grant stakeholders and not really sold to private enterprises. However between Henry Singleton and Ted Turner they have 2.3 million acres. Most of their land is not managed for hunting.

In Montana the most recent data I could find was from 2016:

Total area owned by federal government -27,276,820 acres (Mostly Forest Service and BLM land. 29.3% of state area – 10th most of any state in the U.S.)

Total area owned by state government - 5,196,400 acres (Mostly school trust lands. 5.6 % of state area – 16th most of any state in the U.S.)