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It’s valuable property if you can place a luxury resort with all the amenities right next to a place of natural beauty so the vacationers can indulge while getting a little taste of ‘the wild’ for a day. But if it’s such a good and profitable business plan it damn well needs to include its own road.

Attractive lodgings NEAR national parks are a good thing, but shouldn’t assume they can automatically get a variance to extend ONTO the national park. If you can’t make it work without that, it’s not a good plan.

Give them a sliver of national lands, they’ll come back for more. WSJ framing of this theft is a veiled attempt to convince the reader it is not a bad thing for industries to steal our lands and resources.

Developer knew when land was purchased the negotiated price was in part determined by the accessibility issue. Had a similar issue locally where a property that was valued significantly less because of known zoning issues changed hands. New owner petitioned for a variance that was rightly denied.

Any private encroachment onto public space for personal enrichment without appropriate compensation to the country is a betrayal of its citizens.