This is a terrible idea. Why is making public land into private land a benefit to the nation when it can be used and enjoyed by the entire public, preserve wild

This is a terrible idea. Why is making public land into private land a benefit to the nation when it can be used and enjoyed by the entire public, preserve wildlife, and be sustainably managed? Why would auctioning it off be good, getting far below it's worth for a single one time gain, and then stopping all of us from benefiting from recreational opportunities and further degrading the small amounts of relatively pristine land.