How about a Republican idea: We privatize the collection of fees for the BLM

[Sunlei]

10. writing a check 1.35 X AU (animal unit)X months is the easy part. The BLM is tasked to manage

our public lands. They go out and check the grasses to make sure the livestock is not stripping the grass to bare sand.They maintain the roads, fences, cattle guards, BLM corrals, re-grade trampled natural water and keep an eye on our native wildlife that has to share our public land with a lot of livestock.

They also have a lot of ancient Indian sites out there that they are supposed to check as recently people have stolen a lot of those items. Someone last year even took a rock saw and several ancient rock art went missing.

The fees collected have not been raised in decades. The fees do not even come close to the federal funds we spend to maintain our, public land. Would be even worse if some private business was raking in a huge cut for profit. BLM has plenty of desk clerks who can accept a check and log a payment in.