STATES’ POWER: Alaska Passes Bill Returning State Land from Federal Control

from 21st Century Wire:
All across the western states, a grass-roots movement has risen to reclaim states’ Constitutionally mandated public lands from federal government control.
Presently, resolutions and bills are in motion is Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and now Alaska.
For decades, significant clashes between the western states and the federal government over public land jurisdiction and ownership have led states to press the issue concerning some 700 million acres of federally controlled ‘public lands’ which including national parks, national forests, and national monuments, environmental zones and other ‘protected areas’. Millions of residents in the western states believe that this land belong to the states, and that Washington DC must observe its own legal and Constitutional limitations as stipulated in Article One, Section 8, of the United States Constitution. 
This battle is just beginning…