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Experts Proclaim the Transfer of Lands Act Constitutional!

Jan. 30, 2013
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ALC President, Ken Ivory
This Week's Challenge:
  • Contact your local officials and ask them what they are doing to secure the public lands in your state.
  • Listen to the video below to hear Ken's explanation of how the Transfer of Public Lands will affect National Parks.



Greetings!

Opponents of the Transfer of Public Lands Act are constantly declaring it to be "unconstitutional" but nothing could be further from the truth.  Just ask Donald J. Kochan, Professor of Law at Chapman University School of Law, who has recently published a legal overview of Utah's HB148, The Transfer of Public Lands Act.  

 

Professor Kochan lays out the facts succinctly and clearly in this 28-page legal White Paper.  We are attaching it here in hopes that you will take the time to review it for yourself and then share the information with those within your sphere of influence.  By investing the time it takes to peruse the daily newspaper, you could gain a solid understanding of this critical issue.

Kochan WP Cover

 View this article here.

Federal Gov't Obligated to Honor Promises 

"In many ways the federal government has an obligation to both Utah and the original States who gave the Western lands to the federal government in trust that they would use them for limited purposes and ultimately dispose of them. The federal government has a fiduciary duty to dispose of the property and do so in a reasonable amount of time. Where their delay or refusal to dispose puts the beneficiary in a lesser position - far from the duty to seek to maximize the best interests of the beneficiary - it is violating its fiduciary duty." - Donald Kochan

Things are moving quickly at the American Lands Council.  We now have many counties who have joined from many Western States, as well as a long list of individuals.  I invite you to join that list and Become a Member of The American Lands Council today. It has been done before.  It will be done again.
Click here to see a summary of the various membership levels and the benefits associated with each.
Don't ask what you can do.  Just do all you can do.  And that will be enough.  

 

Sincerely,
Ken Ivory
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