[Dudoight]

I simply cannot understand how this happens. I just don't get it.

[marktwain]

Under Clinton, the policy became one of gradually running people with private property out in areas where they were surrounded by federal land. They just ignored the law and packed the agencies such as BLM and the National Forest Service with Deep Ecology fanatics that think that there should be no trace of man on federal land.

It appears that Norton may be trying to change this, and enforce property rights, but it is very hard for an agency to back off once it has committed to an action.

[Iconoclast2]

It's simple. Law is dead in cases involving the Government. Science is dead in cases involving the Government. Virtually all constraints against the ever-growing power of the Federal Government (except concerning PC personal rights involving race and gender) are gone. Fact and law only constrain men committed to a higher duty than themselves, and such men are virtually absent from the bench. I have litigated against the government on issues such as this for a dozen years, and it is heartbreaking to learn the ugly truth.