Allow private stewardship

Sat., Feb. 25, 2017

Rich Landers pretends to address the issue of public lands, but one entity he ignores is ownership by people. Why not give Joe Sixpack a shot at the 60 percent of Idaho currently monopolized by federal bureaucrats? Personally, I prefer the little guy, the father who takes his gun and goes afield with this kid burns sweet incense to the country I love.

People in the East own the lands in their states, but the federal bureaucracy owns the West. They keep people out because people means votes and votes mean political power. Easterners just love to “protect Western wilderness,” keep the West empty and politically weak. Me, I think the guy sitting on the next barstool is a better steward of America than big government or big labor or big business or big media.

Harold Hochstatter

Moses Lake

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