I don't like this at all. We need a gov that proactively protects these things we'll only have once. We cannot suffer the changing opinions of even supreme court justices. Whether I believe in the legitimacy of this decision or not, we will only have these lands once. We cannot invest in the time scale to create them from scratch. It just won't happen with the lack of unity governing a country of this size, especially when some over-represented minorities want to actively harm our natural resources. We keep destroying entire ecosystems. We'll never fully appreciate what John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt did for national parks, for example.

I fear these lands will just become bargain chips, held hostage, to push through terrible interests elsewhere.