Why it is difficult to implement resource management strategies in the Great Plains?

Question

Why it is difficult to implement resource management strategies in the Great Plains?

Answer 1

One person's idea of appropriate resource management can be completely at odds with another person's idea.  It is extremely difficult to get a large number of people to agree on anything, let alone a complex concept such as resource management.  Most of the privately owned land in the Great Plains is owned by farmers, who, as a group, are notorious for their independence.  Corporate landownners are even worse.  Government owned lands often have different interests vieing for use of the land, i.e. lumbering, mining, grazing, and habitat preserves.