I don't understand the hatred for public lands - state or federal - and desire to shut them down, sell them or whatever.

If they're sold they will not be public land anymore. They'll be developed, scoured, raped and privatized. Rivers access will be closed. Foreign owners likely would be in play.

And then all the bitching about not having anywhere to go, hunting-outdoors opportunities are "only for the rich!" and all the other idiotic bulldoodoo complaining that exists NOW from a lot of people would only get worse.