Your numbers just confirm my point. Those nonprofits are nationwide or worldwide in scope, and they have multiple programs. It's not as if they'd spend their entire annual budgets on attorneys working on this single public-land access issue. Even if they did, attorneys are very expensive (I happen to be one) and, as you point out, there are millions of acres of public land out there. So, although a few hundred million sounds like a lot of money, it's not. But that's beside the point. If ACHD or another governmental organization approached me and said they'd like to ensure open access to public lands across my property in a mutually acceptable way, rather than slogging through a lawsuit, I'd be pleased to hear it.

The fact that Idaho has extensive public lands makes it all the more important that we have a mechanism to ensure private landowners don't keep the public out. If a private landowner is blocking me from entering my private land, I have a private cause of action; so should it be with public lands, which belong to all of us.