[Carry_Okie]

Government causes net harm to the environment and so more of it just means more harm. We need to transfer federal lands to state management...and then into private hands.

There is a more direct route: Privatization by management contract.

[1010RD]

Yes, I know about that, but I just don’t like the Feds owning all this land. It becomes a hot potato for cronyism and corruption of the process. America is designed as a continent-wide free trade zone.

Have you read this guy ever?: http://www.coyoteblog.com/

He does just what you suggest, but left California. They killed his business.