• horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Population densities are a factor as well. The state Wyoming has fewer people than New York City and it’s by a lot.

    Wyoming is mostly land, there’s plenty there to be profitable with. This is mostly ranchers trying to use cheap land and suburban developers trying to increase profits. Both are paying politicians to sign off on it.

    It’s the very thing Teddy Roosevelt fought to start the National Parks Department and that in turn empowered Truman to create the Bureau of Land Management. These two departments preserve and manage almost 10% of this country so that it remains accessible to the world. We should not as a nation allow it to be eroded.