02-05-2021, 03:58 AM
(02-04-2021, 10:03 PM)catchinon Wrote: To previous posters: be careful what you wish for. Moving lands, etc. from federal to state ownership/control often backfires. Sometimes the states then sell "our" lands to private entities who proceed to charge huge fees to use them or lock everyone out. One example: I used to pore over land-ownership maps to find pockets that I thought might be good places to hunt. I always considered the blue school sections to be open to public use. Not so. Many have been leased to individuals and companies for various uses but they are almost always posted like private land. The silver lining was that the monies obtained went to the public schools. I'm not sure but I'm afraid some of them were sold and "we" lost the benefits.
Did you know that from 2007 - 2017 that the DWR was paying SITLA $500,000/year to allow for sportsman's access to our state lands?
They were supposed to negotiate a new contract in 2018 and I'm not sure what the status is now.