The sign was painted, said ‘Private Property’
But on the backside, it didn’t say nothing
This land was made for you and me.
-- Woody Guthrie
Journey across the B.L.M. and Forest Service domain today and you’ll find no shortage of uses that look more like abuses. Oil and gas fields blight the deserts and steppe. Coal, copper, silver and gold mines stab into cliffs and mountains. Forests are felled for timber interests, grasslands are overgrazed for the benefit of cattlemen. The result is ecological impoverishment, biotic simplification and a widespread collapse of biodiversity.
-- Christopher Ketcham
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