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The issue comes back to the hodge podge of laws that govern the 
management of public lands. While the land is "public" it has to be 
managed in concert with the laws that govern it, clean water act, 
endangered species act, etc. There are opposing special interest (from 
mining it and leaving the mess to many environments that would just as 
soon man not ever be allowed in) that have pushed their agenda, many 
times pushed it into law. The problem of dealing with the special 
interest falls right in the lap of the land managers who spend a lot of 
their money anymore in litigation.

So while it is public land - it belongs to the public in the aggregate 
through the Government and is managed in accordance with public law. 
Like many things - it gets back to politics.

Barbara McCrary wrote:
> Furthermore, every time I see a sign that says BLM or Forest Service 
> with "This is YOUR land", I think, "Yes, but it is controlled by YOU 
> (the government agencies)" and it is beyond the public's reach for any 
> kind of decisions. I've attended many meetings that give lip service 
> to public input, and in the end, the controlling government agency 
> calls the shots. I've seen firsthand, government agencies set fires, 
> supposedly cleansing; remove roads, one of which was a remote 
> community's secondary escape route in case of wildfire and to which 
> they had a deeded right of way; and close off land that the agency 
> felt people should not have access to. One good thing that BLM allows 
> is controlled grazing, because such use keeps invasive brush and weeds 
> to a minimum.


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monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also 
into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil


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