One more thing about my experience with the National Parks (I was at Yellowstone and Grand Teton with my family last week).
I was privileged to attend an advance screening of Ken Burns's upcoming PBS documentary on the National Parks ("America's Best Idea") in Jackson, WY. Many of the interview subjects and quoted historical figures, including Teddy Roosevelt, kept coming back to the notion that setting aside these great lands to be owned by the People of America played to our most noble impulses as a democracy. How democratic to have all citizens own the land, and give them equal access to it, rich and poor alike.
Wait a minute… the people owning something, and the government administering it for their benefit… that's not "democratic" anymore… now it's some kind of commie, fascist, Hitler-face scheme.
Teddy's already got the mustache.. we just have to shave off part of it…