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The Bureau of Land Management controls all the land that hadn't been claimed by homesteaders by 1976. Lincoln wanted this land to go to the American people to populate the west. Congress arbitrarily ended the homestead act so the government could keep the land.
This is not National Parks, National Forests, or Military Bases.
This is one example of many of the government preventing citizens from building something for themselves. It also infringes on western states' sovereignty disproportionately.