Public lands belong to us all. State and Federal agencies' management of our natural heritage is under constant pressure to provide for exploitative industries use of them for profit. This frequently undermines the good-faith efforts of agency folk whose expertise gets rail-roaded by political interests.


I hope that this forum will provide a thought-provoking space to discuss these issues and help to find solutions which can aid in re-establishing the primacy of the public interest with regard to public lands management.