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As for mining, aside from closely monitored oil or gas removal, I'd be very skeptical.

Knowing the gubmint they will permit wholesale clear cutting of forests.

I would tend to agree with your worries. Yeah, I'm one of those enviromental wack jobs. I became one after witnessing the wholesale rape of the North Maine Woods by the timber companies.

Knowing the government, since they have been thoroughly corrupted by UN Agenda 21 and sustainable development, they probably will sue themselves to stop all beneficial use of public lands (which is directly the opposite of the purpose of founding the national forests)

Here is an example of a totally corrupted government agency, the Army Corps of Engineers

http://www.cecer.army.mil/SustDesign/info.cfm

What Is Sustainable Design & Development? Sustainable Design & Development

Meets the needs of the present without compromising the quality of life of future generations.

Maintains economic growth while producing an absolute minimum of pollution, repairing environmental damages of the past, producing less waste, and extending opportunities to life in a pleasant and healthy environment.

Meets human needs by maintaining a balance between development, social equality, ecology, and economics

Demands systematic considerations of environmental impact, energy use, natural resources, economy, and quality of life.

Has optimal benefit only when addressed at the inception of a project, and throughout the entire life cycle of a project -- from concept to planning, to programming, design, construction, and ownership.

*** balances development and social equality? What in the name of freedom does that mean?

Meets the needs of the present? How can the needs of the present be met when they are not allowed to use their private property and their granted land, water and mineral rights for economic gain?

the wholesale rape of the North Maine Woods by the timber companies

I don't know what you imagine raping a Woods is, but the Nature Conservancy recently took possession of a huge swath of those rape victims, donated by those eeeevil timber companies.

Pictures I saw looked pretty much like "the forest primeval."

I was for uncontrolled access, mining and logging until I
bought 20 acres in Bonner Co ID and saw up close
what this means.

Strange colored water in the vicinity of where I drink,
destroyed forest land with slash so thick it cannot be
traversed by animals or people, terrain destroyed by
yahoos on ATVs...

The local jurisictions should have a say (provided for in the new rules) but this land is our legacy. If the Feds
don't preserve it, it will be raped.