I think there's plenty of room for both. It's good to have areas kept as natural environments, with a minimum of development (trails, things like that). It's also good to have forests that are properly managed for lumber but also serve as habitat for animals and recreation areas.

The Tragedy of the Commons can come in any time there's "public" land that is used for industry. A man doesn't fish with dynamite unless it's somebody else's lake.

We have a long history of abuse in this area. Resources leased for far less than true market prices (I'm talking orders of magnitude). Political pull short-circuiting protective measures.

I wouldn't mind seeing a lot of current Federal land being either privatized for real market prices to the industries that want to use them, or being set aside completely as wild or recreation land.

The government owns way too much real estate. There's a lot of money tied up there that might be useful about now.