[HairOfTheDog]

Well, if we are to have ever increasing population, I for one am happy to set some places aside now. Unbridled sprawl is not the country I want to live in.

[B Knotts]

If you want to eliminate "sprawl" (whatever that is), there's a simple way to do it: limit immigration. Otherwise, people gotta live somewhere, and crowding people too close together results in a number of pathologies.

[Teacher317]

"some places set aside"? The federal government owns more than 80% of several western states, and about a third of the entire nation's lands. They can let go of an area the size of Alaska and still be able to provide ample wilderness, parkland, and natural resources. Instead, they are changing the rules to make it easier to go after even more. That's a red-flag as far as I'm concerned.