I tend to agree. Granted most land in the US should be in private hands but the states and Feds did a service by preserving some really great places. I’d really hate to see our state and national parks turned into tourist traps with flashy signs and all the trappings.
That said, the feds these days seem to be interested in making access ever more restricted. I suspect there are many like Al Gore who would happily restrict all access to wilderness to authorized biologists and VIPs like themselves.
Go to the Smoky Mountains National Park. Great place.
Throughout the park are empty houses from the people who used to live there but were forced off by our Federal Govt.
In many cases it was done with very little compensation.