I live on a piece of property in an unincorporated rural area surrounded by Federal government property on two sides. They have 100 and 500 year plans already in place for the foreseeable future. None of us have these life spans--so its very difficult to get these plans changed. Someone in Washington, D.C., with no idea of how people live, work and play in a rural area, decides how the government is going to use its land (someone who grew up surrounded by concrete and brick, still surrounded by concrete and brick and wants to tell me who has lived close to the land my whole life how to live and use the land)--which affects those of us living next to them. Whenever these plans are changed...

I live on a piece of property in an unincorporated rural area surrounded by Federal government property on two sides. They have 100 and 500 year plans already in place for the foreseeable future. None of us have these life spans--so its very difficult to get these plans changed. Someone in Washington, D.C., with no idea of how people live, work and play in a rural area, decides how the government is going to use its land (someone who grew up surrounded by concrete and brick, still surrounded by concrete and brick and wants to tell me who has lived close to the land my whole life how to live and use the land)--which affects those of us living next to them. Whenever these plans are changed, they have a "public hearing" over 4 hours, they encourage the people to come in one at a time if there are objections and they want to suggest changes, but the result is that the Feds plan is accepted without any changes--Divide and conquer! If one asks about it, they cite statistics that there were no numerically significant objections to the changes. We have better luck, going to our congressmen and senators getting changes to their plans--its useless to object to the Federal employees or to waste paper by putting it in writing--it will not be a statistically significant objection. So, all the Federal government has to do is wait for the objectors to die and they go merrily along the way the plan states.