Energy exploration on wilderness: ' privatization' and public lands management.

Reviews three perspectives relevant to the balance of private and public interests in land resources. The first concerns the technical feasibility of private exploitation of publicly held lands - in this case the geological problems of finding oil and gas on wilderness. The second involves economic efficiency: the numerous costs and benefits, public and private, of such changes in property rights. The final perspective concerns valuative questions of social welfare. After a brief discussion of each, a conclusion proposes some general guidelines for future policy.-from Author