[American Constitutionalist]

Got to protect the wildlife there in Africa.... got to take huge swaths of land and turn it into animal refuge, like the Federal government is doing here in the USA.

[Verginius Rufus]

At least in Africa when they set aside land for wildlife refuges, it brings in foreign tourists to see the wildlife. Whether the country in question comes out ahead economically, I'm not sure.

We may see something similar in Nevada after the BLM drives Bundy off his ranch: the Desert Tortoise National Park. Hordes of tourists, probably thousands every year, will flock to the site to see the tortoises in their natural habitat. Schoolchildren will be taught to venerate the name of Harry Reid as a great conservationist, up there with John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gifford Pinchot.