Well, Mr. Palmer, if federal lands in the American West are really "all yours" and off-limits to everyone else, let's see you pay some property taxes on that acreage.  :D

You make some good points and some rather specious ones.  :-/  Indeed we here in the West are lucky to have some wide-open spaces still left to enjoy for recreational purposes, but I think that the notion of play-time as the be-all and end-all is flawed.  The multiple use philosophy, judiciously applied, still functions best.  Chasing all the loggers and the ranchers away and shutting down the rural economies of the Western states evidently has a strong appeal to a certain sort of urban naïf, but we will have lost something critical in society if we continue to allow the Greens to criminalize the non-urban blue-collar worker.