Public land is an asset to all Americans. Public land is mainly controlled by the Federal Government. Accordingly, the Federal Government, in earlier Presidential administrations, set aside public land for recreational use. The once protected land is now in jeopardy of being sold or even worse, demolished for monetary gain. This land was given to Americans for enjoyment and relaxation. Public land should not be used monetary gain. The Federal Government has many uses of public land. The most prominent use is for national parks and wildlife refuges. National parks and wildlife refuges are delegated millions of acres. The only inconvenience is that the majority of this land is located in Alaska. This is just one use of our public land. Other well-known uses for public land include military reserves, Federal prisons, and public-domain. The general public is allowed on most of these lands, though it might be tough to be granted access into a military reserve or a Federal prison. Public-domain is defined as land that we, citizens of the United States, all own a portion of this land. To our disdain public is being threatened by the people who are meant to protect it, the government. President Trump’s current plan for federal …show more content…
Extractions refer to the removal of anything that could interfere with building contracts. The states need to focus on preserving public land, and work on revising land that has already been built on. “Federal policy should move away from producing more housing in distressed older cities and focus on upgrading the existing housing stock, by restructuring the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program and providing new resources to support private rental housing and foster sustainable homeownership opportunities.”(Mallach) This goes to show how lazy companies are. They are more willing to tear down forests and build from scratch than to use land that has already been cleared and built
...udicial branch of the American government must be checked by the legislatures of states. To prevent instances like this from reoccurring, it is essential for state legislatures to take preventative steps and draft bills that would further limit the ability of the government to appropriate private property while still protecting private property owners. At the federal level, since it is abundantly clear from the case of Midkiff that the Supreme Court will defer to the Congress to define “public use,” a constitutional remedy needs to take place in the form of an amendment to the Constitution. It would be essential that an amendment to the Public Use Clause would specify the guidelines and standards of a “public use” to preserve the original intent of the legislative authors and provide the necessary private property protection to which all all Americans have a right.
Ducks Unlimited claims that, “In some carefully targeted instances, DU will employ the extension process to work with private landowners to provide both economic and ecological sustainability.” The people that have private wetlands, and don’t have the money to fix them, DU will go to their land and make their land duck-livable and suitable for hunting. *Not only is state land good for duck also private owner will have good and safe land for the ducks. “For over six decades, Ducks Unlimited (DU) has maintained a singleness of purpose that has guided the organization to become the leading waterfowl and wetlands conservation entity in North America. Dynamic and responsive leadership by staff and volunteers, working together, has assured that DU’s work evolved in response to the ever-changing pressures on waterfowl and the habitats upon which they depend throughout their annual cycle”(DU). This is what the people want to see and the people that helps reach DU’s goal even more. They’re not out in the private land just yet, but once they hit their goal they’re not just going to stop at state land. “Canada, a non-profit wetland conservation organization, will announce today that after 20 years of repeated attempts, it has purchased the Chemainus Estuary, located 12 kilometres north of Duncan”(Chemainus Estuary). This is a piece of land that DU was trying to
For around three cents per acre, 15 million in total, the land would have been as if one was giving land away in modern days. But even when the purchase was made, it was a steal. But this is exactly what was needed, land, and more land. A place to grow larger, somewhere to call ours. But even then that we bought the land, we did not know what was upon the land. To even have any knowledge of what was in the land, there were ones who were paid to be sent out to see what the land had to offer us. This was a very scary risk for him as he didn’t know if the land would have anything to offer. Though these peoples main purpose was to map out the land for it to be sent out. But if anything were to come up wrong in the purchase, Jefferson’s reputation would be ruined. Not only would they think that his opinions were useless, but he would no longer be a man anyone will
Also, I would have to research any issues that I could face down the road before I was to make such a large investment in land. I don’t feel that I have a right to build anything if it has a negative impact on the surrounding properties. Also, if the government does not provide me with valid reason and shows proof of the negative impact on the environment than would file suit against the government under the Fifth Amendment that protects private property from taking.
The concept of eminent domain is the condemnation of property for the public’s well being or good for private use is not the original intention and should not be used in this way. Private corporations and individuals are using the initial purpose was for the acquisition of land for the building of railroads and highways. The use of eminent domain has changed over the years by law, government and legal interpretations. These changes have allowed private interest groups to petition the state and local governments for eminent domain to be declared on property where the owners refuse to sell. Each states position on eminent domain is decided by the legislature and the voters of the state for use by private corporations and individuals. The claim by the corporations and individuals is that there projects is for the good of the public which plays of the condemnation of property and roads of being for the public’s well being. The use of eminent domain for the acquisition of land to build the Keystone Pipeline does not fall within the confines of for the public’s well being.
...c structures and other objects of historic or scientific interest in federal ownership as national monuments. National parks were established together with National Forest Service throughout U.S. for conservation and recreation purposes. These actions faced opposition from Western settlers and Congress members who had plans of using the land that was set aside but also the Indians who were forced to stop hunting and fishing. However, settlers were happy with 1902 Reclamation Act that put aside funds to irrigate unlivable chunks of land and previously dry.
Because of the amount of overdeveloped areas that are now vacant, the desire to renovate old vacant properties and land plots has all but disappeared. What if there was a beneficial solution to unused land plots in need of rehab and redesign? What if, instead of paving over every leftover inch of grass and dirt in urban areas to make room for more parking for our daily commuting polluters, we instead reinvent that land for a purpose that is both beneficial to our
as to how it is an effort to continue owning 200 acres of it, in the
Despite protecting millions of acres of wilderness, this act provided for the numerous groups of people affected by the establishment of this law. Stipulations regarding the use of protected lands by private landowners were made. People living inside the park lands were guaranteed the right to subsistence hunting and fishing, as well as the guaranteed access to their lands. This right of access is the main concern for this argument, as it is a major management issue for park officials and land owners alike.
Under Kentucky law, KRS 416.540 (6), the common wealth has the right to take land for public use but for just compensation. Court cases have interpreted public use as a taking for any rationally related service for public purpose; which means that the government can take land for a non-governmental entity and that purpose doesn’t even have to directly serve the public.
When the government needs someone’s land they do ask to buy first, however if the owner does not want to sell, that is when eminent domain is put into place. If the government wants the land and the owner refuses to sell they are still compensated for the cost of land, which is stated in the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Eminent was put in place so that private land could be used to public use to better the state or country depending on the situation. Some feel that this is not right, that eminent domain takes away from a person’s personal rights to own land.
Although I don’t think that it will be effortless and uncomplicated, I do think that the land owned by the federal government should be devolved back to the individual states so they can customize their care for the environment that is specifically catered to their specific terrain’s needs. I believe the best alternative is for the United States to give back the federal land to the individual states, and then the individual states consol...
Have you ever felt stuck? Wherever you are, it’s the absolute last place you want to be. In the book Into the Wild, Chris McCandless feels stuck just like the average everyday person may feel. Chris finds his escape plan to the situation and feels he will free himself by going off to the wild. I agree with the author that Chris McCandless wasn’t a crazy person, a sociopath, or an outcast because he got along with many people very well, but he did seem somewhat incompetent, even though he survived for quite some time.
“… It is apparent, then, that we cannot decide the question of development versus preservation by a simple referral to holy writ or an attempt to guess the intention of the founding fathers; we must make up our own minds and decide for ourselves what the national parks should be and what purpose they should serve.”-Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
For the federal government to condemn property as blighted and then transfer it to private developers or corporations for the obvious purpose of increasing tax revenue is seen as being unfair and unconstitutional. The Constitution designates to Congress a list of specific enumerated powers. These powers can be found in Article I of the Constitution, which contains some important items. These powers range from things like declaring war, raising armies and collecting taxes. It also includes powers that are of secondary importance such as regulating the value of foreign coin and establishing post roads.(Baude, p1746) However, the power of taking private property is not c...