All good, but we still have to come up with a system of equitable land distribution, which was the original situation with federal ownership of that land, which was intended to be temporary.

In Oregon, we have a few major timber companies locking up vast tracts of land that they got for virtually nothing, but in the age old game of getting there first, they have locked up ownership of the land and are the crony power structure in a lot of, if not most, of the rural counties.

their main "opposition" is environmentalist groups which in reality, are hired by rival timber outfits to make trouble for those they don't like or to gain market advantages, for example, a lot of people are not fully aware of how much Canadian corporations who are in the timber and lumber business have contributed to the anti-logging activists in high profit lumber markets, like California.

It would not surprise me at all if we found major donors to politicians trying to shut down western US State cattle and food production to be Latin American cattle interests who currently export meat to major grocery chains in the US, and feel their distribution system is sufficient to put America on the food dependence program without people fully realizing it until it is too late because they can keep the grocery shelves full from thousands of miles away, until they decide otherwise...