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Originally Posted by John Mercier
The government has the ability to acquire it, but has to pay the value of the property.
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True. My point, though is that we seem to be moving away from the government buying land to preserve it and instead is moving toward managing public land to extract value from it. As an example far from us, the acting director of the BLM wants to privatize 400,000 acres of BLM land as a first step toward changing how public land is managed.