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Intriguing idea. Let's talk logistics. Almost 46% of the land area of the state of California is owned by the US Federal Government through some agency (BLM, N
by niftich 10y ago
Intriguing idea. Let's talk logistics.
Almost 46% of the land area of the state of California is owned by the US Federal Government through some agency (BLM, National Park Service, DoD, etc) [1], including several key military bases, like Naval Base San Diego, home of the US Pacific Fleet. Furthermore, federally recognized Indian Tribes are domestic dependent nations of the United States and as such tribal authority on Indian land isn't granted by the states in which they appear to be in [2]. The US Government also owns the territorial sea of California further out than 3 nautical miles from the baseline on the shore [3].
These, among others, are issues that would have to be settled.
[1] http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf
[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=IHKXAAAAMAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=IHKXAAAAMAAJ
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_Lands_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_Lands_Act