What Defines Wise Use Of Public Land?
“Uncle Sam oversees more than 500 million acres of land around the United States, most of it here in the West. In some Western states, the federal government either the Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior controls more than half the land within state borders.This means that not only the nation’s “crown jewels” parks such as Yellowstone and Glacier but timber-rich forests and rangeland for cattle grazing belong just as much to New Jersey urbanites as they do to Montana ranchers and Oregon loggers.