So you admit attempting to lump in Texas with states east of the Mississippi River.
So, you want to continue to make trivial objections, hum?
Why does that matter? Public state lands serve the same purpose -- lands held in the public trust for recreation, hunting, camping, hiking, wildlife conservation. Most of the publicly accessible lands within 20 miles of me are state parks, state beaches, municipal parks, national forests.
It matters. Much of the West is held as federal land. It pays no property taxes, it has little value since it sits fallow most or all of the time. Those areas used for things like recreation, hunting (usually banned these days), camping, etc., take up a tiny fraction of the whole. Wildlife conservation is often better done by private parties than the government.
For example, on BLM land leased to ranchers--where if the ranchers owned that land they'd pay property taxes--they, the ranchers, put in things like salt licks, watering holes and ponds, an try to make the land more usable for range cattle, etc. This benefits wildlife as they use these things too. The government isn't doing any of that.
You must sit inside your air conditioned apartment all day.
Not true. I own a rather large house and spend much of my time working on the project car, out on side jobs, or doing other stuff. Don't dump your worthless lifestyle on me.
Other people are interested in publicly accessible lands for outdoor recreation, fishing, hunting, hiking, camping, bird watching, boating, wildlife conservation.
And for those using it for all but environmentalist purposes, that would continue. Environmentalists have proven terrible stewards of public lands, like when they out bid ranchers for BLM land leases and then let the land go fallow followed by a collapse of wildlife because things like I mentioned earlier fall into ruin.
It is noteworthy that Texas is notorious for setting aside such little amount of land for the public interest.
Why is it "notorious" and who is claiming that?
Isn't this thread about picking places to live based on quality of life?
Depends on your definition of what a quality life consists of, doesn't it?
