So only the bordering private landowners and rich people can helicopter in and use "lead shot, lead fishing tackle, litter, tree spikes, shooting lanes, moved firewood, wildfires, ATV damage, horse pathogens, sage grouse, prairie chickens, white nose syndrome, fossil hunters, rock collectors, fishing line, contaminated bait, etc etc etc."? That is how it sits currently, and I would suggest that there are a lot of laws broken on these lands (including the above mentioned) considering that ECO's can't effectivly monitor it to even know what is going on there. Unmanaged lands seem to be a major part of problem concerning California's wildfires.
It's a moot point to suggest that the public can't use their own land, I simply don't agree with the tree hugger excuse here, those same litterbugs, lead shot users etc are just going to drop the same garbage, and fishing line on other public land so it does nothing to address those actual problems. I simply see it as "public land" that is intentionally set aside for the public to use but the access has since been blocked. I am fortunate to own the land I have but not everyone owns their own land to use which is why we support public lands to begin with. I don't know much on the topic but as I understand it, Federal lands are set aside for just that reason, to preserve that land and keep it as naturally pristine as possible. If that is the intent, then call it preserve land and even the private land owners can't use it. Otherwise it is just an land extension of the bordering private lands that only they can use.
This isn't only out west, the article that got me started was in Michigan, there are other sections in this publishing for the South, and mid-Atlantic. onX claims that the Landlocked Public State land is just over 6 million acres, Federal landlocked lands are 9.5 million acres, thats over 15 million acres in the US that we average Joe's are supposed to be able to, but cannot access. I just touched on this last night and haven't really looked much into the facts yet, this could just be bait for people to download onX app so wanted others thoughts on the topic. It certainly was a shock to me to read this.