Federal Land
James Douglas Buthman
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I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. Theodore Roosevelt, speech, 1900; attributed to: http://www.wilderness.org/Library/Documents/Conservation_Quotes.cfm
Today one of the major news pundits made a statement about Nevada telling the public about how some giant percentage of the land in that state was owned by the federal government. This is exactly what I mean when I talk about reality versus rhetoric. There is a large percentage of land managed by the feds, but it is public land, you and I and everyone else in this nation owns that land collectively. It is not Communist or Socialist or inadvisable, but a protection of the present and future heritage of the United States. More later.
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