McFeely: Teddy Roosevelt would be ashamed of Doug Burgum. Modern Americans should be, too.
Doug Burgum’s stop at Olympic National Park didn’t go as planned. Confronted by protesters, the former North Dakota governor was called out for pushing policies that treat national parks as line items to be leased, drilled, or sold. His suggestion that public lands are “assets on a balance sheet” landed poorly—especially in the shadow of Theodore Roosevelt, whose conservation legacy Burgum claims to honor. The moment reveals a deeper national question: are our wild places for everyone, or just another commodity for the highest bidder? That’s the opinion of Mike McFeely in this InForum commentary linked below.
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