81.   But the resulting plan invites developers to propose the balance of public land and commercial activity.

82.   But some state legislators, who believe ranchers should be reimbursed for the forage taken by elk and other wildlife on public land, disagree.

83.   But the stealth bill has the potential to bomb a huge crater out of the notion of public lands.

84.   But the public lands do not belong to ranchers.

85.   But they had no appetite for rolling back laws protecting air, water and the public lands.

86.   But the lands she administers are by law public lands that belong to everyone, not just the locals.

87.   But, Babbitt reportedly added, the administration would lose the Mountain States, places where people strongly believe they have the right to unrestricted use of public lands.

88.   Carver claims the federal government has wrongly seized control of public lands that rightfully belong to states.

89.   Carver claims that Nevada owns all public land within its borders because it never ceded land to the federal government upon becoming a state.

90.   Citizens with different interests and needs are finding common ground when it comes to the public lands.