Why should the Kansas House and Senate Committees on Federal and State Affairs pass these bills? It really boils down to enabling the legislature to act in interposition between the national government and individual property owners. The current process being driven by NGO's like the National Historic Trust for the National Park Service is designed to circumvent the property owners out of a transaction that eventually encroaches on individual property rights.
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Here is the 30 x 30 land grab right here in Kansas. All intended to satisfy the Paris Climate Agreement.
Article I Sec. 8 gives Congress authority to purchase land in any state but only with the consent of the legislature of that state. In 1787 landowners had all rights. The current situation has the government assuming certain property rights without a purchase transaction. The government assumes these rights by a "designation." These bills bring the state legislature into the process to act on behalf of every individual landowner. It provides for due process that Congress is currently working around.
Why is interposition necessary?
We all recognize that a national heritage area cannot encumber private property rights but a NHA is a precursor to a National Park designation. A national park has full authority to impose land management plans over property within the park. However a National Historic Trail designation is an instant National Park.
Before these bills die in committee the committee members should ask why seven counties in SE Colorado passed resolutions against the proposed Canyons and Plains NHA. They should ask why US Rep. Tracey Mann, Senator Roger Marshall and former NE Gov. Pete Ricketts opposed the Kansas Nebraska NHA.
The answer is that property owners do not want to be subject to land management plans written, implemented and enforced by unaccountable bureaucrats.
"Stakeholders" is a term invented to create an interest in something without having any actual risk. It is interesting that landowners oppose these designations and stakeholders are all in. Embracing our history at the cost of our future cannot be justified by those with no skin in the game.
Watch a detailed discussion of this land grab as it is being implemented across the country.
