Changes are afoot

Every day, it seems, there’s another threat to public land.

Real or imagined, changes are afoot.

The Secretary of the Interior, who claimed to be cut from the same cloth as Teddy Roosevelt, has instead proven to be a pawn of the oil and gas industry. Conservation and preservation have taken a backseat to development.

But this is a good thing.

We needed a wakeup call.

We’d become complacent, content with what we had, never expecting it to end.

The only folks talking about selling our public lands were some nut jobs in Utah and Nevada, and a couple of tightly-wound legislators in Montana.

Now, h...