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That seems short sighted. I live in Denver, CO. I consider it pointless to fund roads on the east coast. I'm never going to drive on them.

That's silly. Goods arriving at East coast ports travel via systems I have no clue about.

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The sense of pointlessness in this case isn't "I'll never take advantage of those roads", it's "this feels more like someone wanting to cosplay Jurassic Park than it does a serious effort to do something useful for biodiversity".

Cloned wooly mammoths aren't a public good like roads

Was landing on the Moon a public good?

Science often brings unexpected fruit. Cloning woolly mammoths may as well.

And so does blowing wind. You never know. Where do you put the limit? Pouring a trillion dollars into war sure has more benefits, like local hiring, finding out about microwaves, cheaper petrol, etc. But is pouring a trillion dollars into that, a good thing?

The moon landing was a propaganda stunt against the USSR. We have no need to revive literal mammoths.

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