re: #200 albusteve

Managing resources usually means putting a for sale sign on the property and selling to the person who’ll pay the most money. Then let them manage it, develop it, trash it, exploit it, whatever. The BLM leases land to all kinds of ventures, and a lot of Real American™ ranchers bank on grazing their livestock on it. (A less welfare-y name for welfare, they can live with.)

People whine about rural areas and farmland turning into housing developments. Well, it isn’t as if the land was confiscated (usually!). Somebody - some Real American™ - sold it to the highest bidder, and whoever bought it decided its fate.