I think the motivation for agencies assisting non-profits like Audubon to buy up land is to provide habitat areas that won't end up like Capitol Forest.

Filled with trash, poached clean, and crawling with squatting tweekers.

I used to camp in some 'all access' WDFW lands and after a few short years the places were mudpits from 4x4'ers and ATV'ers, the signs were swiss-cheesed with bullet holes, and what trees weren't hacked down for firewood looked like the day after Halloween on a college campus with all the poopy toilet paper and Busch Light cans strewn around them.

Those places are all now gated.