okay. let’s take a step back then away from the books. go have a conversation with an indigenous person about how land-management was done prior to colonization. you might learn some things about how european property rights are a uniquely insidious thing that make up the current hegemonic understanding of how the world works.

then, when you’re ready, go read a history book about the violence that was enacted in order to establish the manors, baronies, and lordships that came to underlie Europe’s mercantile and then later capitalist systems of oppression. much of what you are taking as an obvious given about how land management works and should work is extremely recent, and much to the detriment of the local ecologies and ecosystems you think will be better protected as private land.

the reason people are consistently pointing you to somewhere you can learn something is because you are perpetuating wrong and harmful mistruths about the world, how it works, and how it should work.