I’m not sure what you mean by can’t be developed, especially with the machinery dirt can be moved and cement poured to create houses or mining operations.

It's interesting that the conservative party is pushing for change.
The selling off of public lands. I consider myself conservative, but my party left me along time ago.
We have a great treasure in our public lands and when there gone there's no getting them back. Anyone can use them. Sell them of to pay of debt? That is just a band-aid to a problem that has been created by waste and greed.
Agree to let our government sell land to corporations to pay of debt that our Government has created.
Has any one heard of fascism, politicians and corporations working together to pad there pockets.
Not a solution to pay of debt.

WY is a special place. Most of the west is already ruined so far as public land. I am 50/50 either way.

the federal government owns approximately 28 percent of the land mass of the United States of America.

No

Have you ever heard of communism?

Communism and Property Ownership
Under communism, the concept of property ownership is fundamentally different from that in capitalist societies. In a communist system, all property is theoretically owned collectively by the people, administered by a centralized government to create an equitable society.

You just described the US in a nutshell. If you look at the fact that the titled land that we own is still taxed.
In a perfect world no one would own land. Try and not pay your taxes and se haw long you own land or try and stop from losing is thought eniment domain.