There's plenty of space in the middle of Kansas. Aside from the environmental issues, and the fact that not too many people would be crazy about living there -

There's plenty of space in the middle of Kansas. Aside from the environmental issues, and the fact that not too many people would be crazy about living there -- what about the generations-old farm families who just... don't want to sell? At any price? Which is what I meant about there being few places of significant scale (aside from protected wilderness areas that ought to remain as such) that are genuinely "empty."