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Bureaucratic Unintended Consequences - A Case In Point
Anyone in Group back when MG Emerson was CG, USAJFKCENMA and ever deployed under SPARTAN* will recognize this scenario. As an SF Medic in the 7th SFG at the time, I worked with the Havasupai and the Lumbee tribes.
In 1966, Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner Robert L. Bennett outlawed development on 1.6 million acres of desert in northeastern Arizona that was claimed by both the Navajo nation and the Hopi tribe. When the freeze ended, many residents didn't know where to begin.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...0471.htmlstory
And so it goes...
Richard 
* Under SPARTAN (Special Proficiency at Rugged Training and Nation-building) we worked with Indian tribes in Florida, Arizona and Montana to build roads and medical facilities, and provided free medical treatment and engineering support to impoverished citizens of rural communities in NC and the Appalachians.
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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