By Reagan Priest | AZ Capitol Times
One Republican lawmaker wants to create a new department to manage a category of land that does not currently exist in Arizona in anticipation of potential policies from President Donald Trump.
Sen. Mark Finchem, R-Prescott, sponsored a bill to establish the Department of Natural Resources to oversee state lands that are not state trust land. The only problem is, all state land is state trust land.
Finchem said the idea is inspired by indications from the Trump administration that it will return swaths of public land managed by the federal government back to the states where the land is located.