Is that how you see it, Andrew, as a bad idea? What makes you say that?

As in, what makes you believe that considering original owners would be considered a bad idea and therefore likely to be delivered sarcastically?

The original owners don't exist anymore. We probably don't even know who they were. Control of land in America was never an unbroken line of custody by a single tribe. You could consider the most recent non-white owners, but that's a pointless distinction.

Aside from patrick451's comment, what makes you think the original owners can make effective decisions for environmental sustainability today? Their descendants probably can't.