Original sentence: Reagan appointees slowed down or closed down wilderness designation legislation, and by Reagan's second term, the Sagebrush Rebellion was back to simmering on the back burner of federal land management agencies.This provided a huge morale boost to long-aggrieved public lands users other than conservationists, and started a two-year newspaper, radio and television fight for the legislation.Western land users regarded the act as a bureaucratic power grab at best, or the imposition of a totalitarian socialist regime at the radical worst
Edited sentence: By Reagan's second term, the Sagebrush Rebellion was back to simmering on the back burner of federal land management agencies.Conservative western land users regarded the act as a bureaucratic power grab at best, or the imposition of a totalitarian socialist regime at the radical worst; more moderate thinkers saw this as a necessary step in protecting public lands from what tends to be destructive patterns of use.Reagan appointees slowed down or closed down wilderness designation legislation, and tended to favor retrograde environmental thinking over science-based land use policies.This provided a huge morale boost to economic development-oriented public lands users, and started a two-year newspaper, radio and television fight for the legislation from conservative sources