Today is Public Lands Day!

Both in Wyoming, and nationally.

At least in Wyoming, this is a big deal.  The State's residents put down, over a two year effort, a misguided effort to try to force the Federal Government to transfer lands to the State which was widely, and I'd submit correctly, presumed to have been what would amount to an pretty steady transfer of those loss of those lands from the public ownership.  Wyomingites were not having it, defeated  the proposals, and secured the passage of a state Public Lands Day.

It's also National Public Lands Day as well.

The large holdings of public commons to be used and enjoyed by all is one of the real blessings of living in North America and should be celebrated by all.

And like all freedoms, it's one that needs to be continued to be protected.  Those in Wyoming who were recently defeated surely haven't fully given up, and in this state some effort like this seems to reoccur every fifteen to twenty years. Even now, while the Administration is headed by a President who is strongly in favor of public lands (as is his son, who may well have influenced him in that fashion), the current head of the BLM has a track history of being hostile to the Federal government owning public land.  So the celebration should not only, frankly, be celebratory, but it ought to also remind people that this question really should be settled.