The federal government owns about one-third of America.

Since we’re on a path to bankruptcy, it would be smart to sell some unused property.

President Donald Trump’s interior secretary says it may be worth as much as $200 trillion. Selling just a fraction of it would reduce our enormous debt.

Not just that: Since government doesn’t manage things well, selling or leasing some would leave it in better condition.

Federal bureaucrats have been slow to do controlled burns and remove deadwood that becomes fuel for wildfires.

“Fires on federal lands accounted for more than half of the acres burned,” says the Congressional Budget Office.

But whenever a politician suggests selling any land, environmental activists freak out.

Jennifer Mamola of the John Muir Project says the government must hold on to every bit of land it owns “to solve our biodiversity crisis.”

“What is a biodiversity crisis?” I ask her in my new video.

“Human fingerprints are on the scale, and we are out tipping it!”

Like many activists, she’s........

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