Sometime we win...National Forests and Wildlife Refuge

vjstangelo wrote:
National Forests are resources that are used for betterment of the country. That means multiple uses: grazing, homes, camping, agricultural (including managed logging). That is why the National Forests are managed by the Department of Agriculture.

National Parks are meant to preserve pristine/historical resources hence they are pretty much off limits to most of the above. They are managed by the Department of the Interior.

Agree, but in the light of global oversupply of lumber and oil, why give away these resources to corporate interests?

I recall sometime that the original intent of these national forests are as strategic resources in times of shortage -- like what happened in the postwar housing boom for our returning foreign deployed servicemen that allowed these forests to be harvested to alleviate the severe lumber shortage from commercial sources.