If you've been paying attention to RideApart over the last year, you'll already know that I'm a big proponent of public lands. As conservationist Randy Newberg loves to say, "They're the greatest form of distributed wealth in history" and I wholeheartedly agree.
But not everyone believes what Randy, myself, Doug Duren, and countless others who use public lands to recreate, fish, and hunt do. Not everyone believes that public lands should stay public. Not everyone believes public lands are good for the public or how they help maintain countless species and both clean water and air. There are those who'd rather sell them off, deny you access, and ruin pristine ecosystems just so they could make a buck.
