Everything Is For Sale: The Privatization Of Your Public Lands

[UngulateNerd92]

Just to clarify, this is Copy-Pasted from the article.

"I love maps. I can spend hours at a topo and studying its contours. Maps provide perspective: they show how everything fits together and help me find my place within the big picture.

I used to think that all the green-shaded areas of maps were protected. The green parts of a map are usually public lands—national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges—and I assumed that they were all basically managed the same.

I was completely wrong.

Most public lands—especially national forests—aren’t really protected at all: industrial logging, commercial clearcutting, mining, oil and gas drilling, private cattle grazing, and pipeline construction all occur on our public lands.

Everything Is For Sale: The Privatization of Your Public Lands

 

[UngulateNerd92]

@Pantheraman I am sure you'd have a lot to say about this article.

 

[Pantheraman]

You know at this point I'm not even surprised anymore. To protect these public areas, what we need is for these areas to become endangered species strongholds or rewilding areas which in turn might make it illegal to perform these activities on our public lands. I say might because politicians are the biggest criminals in the world period.

What's needed is an endangered species-related conservation program that works on these lands that'll work regardless of who's in the white house, like the duck stamp.