GUEST OPINION: Federal lands should revert to the states

RBC I For more than a century the western United States has engaged in a debate over federal control of Western lands. This debate, which started early in the 1880s, gained popularity during the 1970s and ‘80s, when President Ronald Reagan declared himself a member of the Sagebrush Rebellion, a group that sought transfer of federal lands (most notably those lands under the management of the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management or BLM)…