I'm not sure but I think it's probably the typical hair-on-fire histrionics promoted across the leftist media and the environmental community. In many ways I'm connected to that community and am concerned that the proposed bill could be used inappropriately to offer public lands that should be protected for the public. But the bill cover only 3 million acres, and so much .gov land shouldn't be locked up and unproductive for society. Take for instance the huge tracts of BLM land on the west slope, much of it barren, some of it viable farmland, that can't be used productively. Three million acres is a drop in the bucket of the federal lands. Much reform needs to happen with these lands.