https://www.outdoorlife.com/federal-land-transfer-beware-politicians-bearing-maps/
Have you ever seen the map I liked above? Nearly the entire western half of the US is federally owned land.
I live in the west, I grew up in the west, I cherish the fact that most of the land is public, and I can go almost anywhere. Almost everyone that lives out here that uses the outdoors will agree that it is a good thing they are public lands. By comparison, go to Northern New York, I lived there a few years ago, almost everything is fenced off, there is no where you can go.