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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 184: Save the Cutoff with Texans Bud Morton and Dustin Baker

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

The bitter tide of privatizing public lands and waters is rising fast across America. Only the actions of quietly heroic citizens can stop it.

Nobody who hunted and fished the Cutoff wanted to tell the world about it. The Cutoff is also known as Creslenn Lake, a twelve-mile stretch of what used to be the Trinity River (it was “cut off” by a long-ago flood control project) between Navarro and Henderson Counties about an hour and half south of Dallas, Texas. The Cutoff has been a locals’ top destination for crappie fishing, duck hunting, jug lining and just enjoying this wild corner of Texas, through multiple generations (check out the Save the Cutoff Facebook page for the comments). Nobody dreamed that one day, a local landowner would simply declare the miles of public water his own fiefdom, hiring guards, closing roads, building illegal fences and excavating -- also illegally -- thousands of yards of dirt to block any hope of access. This is a David versus Goliath story, a battle fought on behalf of us all, by a very small band of hardworking rural Texans who simply will not lay down and take it.

Learn more:

https://www.backcountryhunters.org/local_outdoorsmen_rally_to_save_the_cutoff

https://www.facebook.com/p/Save-the-cut-off-100078227846990/

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/east-texas-cutoff-trinity-river-land-dispute/

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BHA. THE VOICE FOR OUR WILD PUBLIC LANDS, WATERS AND WILDLIFE.

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Transcript

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I mean the more we fight this battle it seems like maybe this guy was a mile ahead of us

0:07.0

before we ever hit the ground. Knowing that that is public property and spending the money to buy it and then blatantly trying to privatize

0:16.3

it. I mean that just blows my mind, you know?

0:20.1

It's definitely throwing down a gauntlet.

0:22.1

Yes, for sure.

0:23.6

When I seen that document, you know, a light bulb went off

0:27.6

in my head and I was like, yeah, you know,

0:29.0

this really got meaning.

0:30.4

You know, it's not just for me. It's for everybody.

0:33.0

That's right. I've got four kids, you know, and I think it's important for them to be able to see that in today's society that it is okay to have a voice that it is okay to stand up for what you believe in

0:46.4

no matter what the outcome is and that they need to know that if you're gonna do something by God do it. You don't do it half-ass, you do it.

0:55.4

Hey everybody, are you ready for getaway on the water

1:00.0

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1:03.4

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1:05.9

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1:10.0

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1:13.7

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1:18.9

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1:35.4

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1:39.8

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