Problems Resulting from Federal Land Acquisition
20 September 2013
Robert J. ("RJ") Smith, Distinguished Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, discusses how the federal government's continuous acquisition of land across America undermines conscientious private stewardship of land, waters, and other resources and contributes to forests becoming overgrown and filled with trees, resulting in catastrophic wildfires.
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