The goal wasn’t to encourage extraction, it was to prevent over-extraction.

I live in a National Forest that hasn’t had any large-scale commercial logging conducted in it for many decades. It has multiple designated Wilderness areas, and is primarily used for recreation. The major distinction between it and a National Park is that you’re permitted to drive motorized vehicles on the existing logging roads, and collect firewood with a permit.

my neighbor has mistakenly made his yard too uncomfortable for my dog to shit in

Is that a mistake?

their land could be turned over from agriculture to pleasure.

But the lawn wasn’t unproductive, originally. It was being grazed by sheep and horses, which were higher value agricultural products.

Just look at how many people think Star Trek is conservative

I mean, TOS has Captain Church galavanting around the galaxy with his mixed-race manservant, inserting himself in other races’ business so he can sex up all the foreign women.

Voyager has a woman captain that’s so incompetent she strands her crew on the opposite side of the galaxy.

DS9 and STD have black main characters that are canonically violent criminals.

There is a race of Jewish rat people…