The federal government owns and manages more than a quarter of the roughly 2 billion acres of land in the US. https://usafacts.org/reports/2021/government-10-k/part-i/item-2-properties/
The Govt doesn't need any land in New Mexico for fish & wildlife. They have ulterior motives for seizing the land in Roswell New Mexico and I can't imagine what it might involve.
The federal government owns and manages more than a quarter of the roughly 2 billion acres of land in the US. https://usafacts.org/reports/2021/government-10-k/part-i/item-2-properties/ The Govt doesn't need any land in New Mexico for fish & wildlife. They have ulterior motives for seizing the land in Roswell New Mexico and I can't imagine what it might involve.
President Trump has said that there is so much land owned by the government that a portion should be released to be available.
Resources, namely oil and natural gas. Big deposits in that part of state. Also, nuclear waste storage site relatively close. Follow the money.