Sheldon Baker (“Public lands are perfectly constitutional,” Letters, Journal, Sept. 2) must not know that the government is the citizen or at least was. It used to be the taxpayers or citizens of the United States not the Forest Service. Public lands means you and I and each and every citizen of the United States, not the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service or any government employee. Both agencies were formed as caretakers not owners, even though they think that they own it.
I just hope if James Lambert is elected that he remembers who is the true owners are.
Steve Sharp
Cortez
