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Risk, you really should purchase Carry-okie's book, and another on is "Undue Influence" by Ron Arnold....Ron also has several others and I am trying to get them....one thing I don't think you understand about me, farmfriend and carry_okie, as well as all the other posters to these threads, are that we all love the land and consider ourselfs to be conservationists......I do at any rate, and as such, I feel that I am the best steward of my land!

Again, please get the books, this will help you to see both sides of this coin!!! If you will look at my bookmarks, you will also understand that I stand to lose my home, my way of life, my heritage all because of a "view-shed" that is not even a "view-shed" yet, but will be if the NPS has it's way and gets a scenic parkway built along the New River from I-64 to Hinton, WV!

I do at any rate, and as such, I feel that I am the best steward of my land!

It's good to know you guys are conservationists. I also agree that you should have the right to choose how to conserve your own resources as long as you don't impact people downstream or cause mudslides, etc...

But the land Teddy Roosevelt saved is not your private land, and I don't have to trust you personally to do what's best for it. I'd prefer to keep it that way, and if there are issues with habitat damage caused by poorly managed agencies, then we need to solve that problem directly, not with privatization.

As soon as you privatize, the resources will go to the highest bidder, and we know who that is.