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Public Lands and Fiscal Sustainability  

 One of the first questions we receive about the Public Lands issue is, "How can the states afford to take care of all of those lands?"  Our answer is, "We cannot afford to NOT be in charge of our own lands."  In addition to the many thousands of ranchers, farmers, miners, outdoorsmen, and others who rely on access to public lands for their survival, there are more energy resources in the West than the rest of the world combined.  And the facts continually prove that when public lands are managed by the states, their return is nine times better than at the hands of the federal government.  The people of our states need the freedom to access our lands, as was promised in our Enabling Acts.