These people are vile.
My sense is they seize it with some future use in mind that they’re not willing to share. Or they seize it as a playground for city folks who want to go see nature. (We should declare the sewer rat, or the feces slug, endangered in NYC and shut the place down from use or development.)
Stopping this is the first avenue of approach.
In any case, any land should revert to the person or to the person’s heirs if ANY change, use, activity, etc. is ever associated with that former owner’s lands.
“My sense is they seize it with some future use in mind that they’re not willing to share.”
Judging from comments made a few years ago by friends who worked natural resources at a state level, and who had to deal with the feds, I suspect the only agenda is:
“All your land are belong to us!”
The guys I knew have switched jobs, but they described USFS & BLM employees talking about ‘touroids’ instead of tourists, and wanting to introduce grizzly bears into places near large cities, and laughing about how a few eaten touroids would keep the humans ‘out of our forests’.
It isn’t so much a specific agenda as a belief that public lands belong to the BLM & USFS & USPS employees, for the employees benefit. The public are interlopers & transgressors who invade the employees’ home. From their perspective, enlarging the area by dishonest use of wilderness areas or water acts or the endangered species act is just a way of making their ‘home’ bigger and better. Like any good liberal, they think they know best and the citizens of the US - the unwashed masses - are trying to ruin ‘their’ property. It is the government mentality - we exist for them, not they for us.