Taegan Goddard’s Political Dictionary tells us that logrolling isn’t just the exciting lumberjack athletic contest that looks like a ballet for tough guys, but also refers to an “informal agreement between legislators to vote for each others’ priorities.” Political logs roll when lawmakers push through a bill that benefits their constituencies but is financed by all taxpayers — it’s a game of “you vote for my dams and bridges, and I’ll vote for your housing projects and hospitals.”

For Big Green, the archetypal “omnibus public lands bill” has been the ideal vehicle — a game that savvy Democrats play with freshman Republicans to “vote for dozens of my no-oil-or-gas wilderness bills and I’ll vote for two of your ‘name a mountain after some obscure native son’ bills.” Even better for Big Green, an omnibus bill is so long and complicated that key staffers are known to have never read the whole thing.