Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized—or at least, radically reconfigured in some way. I

"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American comm

Throughout American history, “public lands” have been the subject of controversy, from homesteaders settling the American west to ranchers who use the open