Despite my issues with how the Bureau of Land Management manages our public lands, and there are countless things I find wrong with its implementations, the land that part of the federal government manages is still at least our land. It hasn't been sold off, leased out, or otherwise walled away from those who rightfully own it.
Limitations are being put on those lands, sure, and those limitations aren't always for the benefit of the American public. But it's still ours and, with collective force, we can push back on idiotic policies drummed up by those far away in Washington and without a connection to the land we all love to use. We can still protect closings of OHV trails, cry foul when recreational shooting is banned, or when hunting access becomes limited. There's still someone we can complain to and, due to those lands still being public, have our voices heard and potentially affect change.
That wouldn't be the case with Utah's, my home state, idiotic lawsuit against the Bureau to seize 18 million acres of public land. Why? While the campaign to control those lands pretends to put the American people first, maintaining those lands for all, Utah doesn't have the funds to do so, nor has any inclination to, as it just wants to sell it off to property developers, as well as to extractive industries, like oil, gas and mineral mining.
