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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. #189: Utah Wants Your Public Lands

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Utah files landmark lawsuit challenging federal control over most BLM land

Yes, it is to retch over. Once again, the Utah legislature is coming for America’s public lands, this time by way of a lawsuit filed against the US government to lay claim to 18.5 million acres of public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Utah has a new website called “Stand for Our Land” designed to support the lawsuit – it’s a slick campaign, maybe the slickest yet- and chock-full of the half-truths and outright falsehoods long devised and parroted by the generations of would-be landgrabbers before them.

Some say this is just more performance politics, another ploy to lock-in votes from a mouth-frothing base that demands raw meat, however illusory, to stay motivated.

It is not. Utah is a complicated place, and the motivations and legal mechanics of this lawsuit need to be understood by every American who loves our public lands and our freedom to experience them, and who believes that freedom should be safeguarded for the future. Know what is happening. Join Utah BHA leaders Caitlyn Curry and Perry Hall, and BHA CEO Patrick Berry, for the inside look at what is happening, what is at stake, and exactly what is coming down this road.

“Once more into the breach!” as Henry the Fifth commended his valiant soldiers, and so must we, defenders of public lands and our American birthright, go, yet again, and as many times as it take.

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Acceptance of those lands it forever disclaimed any right title to the unappropriate lands that we're talking about here.

0:14.4

What is important?

0:15.3

This isn't just Washington making decisions,

0:17.6

you know, moving the chess pieces from miles and miles away.

0:20.5

This is people on the ground helping to make you know conscious decisions that will

0:25.4

improve the experience for all users. I sit there and I'm like going dude it's like

0:32.0

you're burning down your house because you don't like

0:35.5

what didn't your relatives did with the bathroom in this particular case I think

0:41.7

we're all well aware the state, if they were to own these lands like the dog catching the car, not know what to do with it, they are going to have to either divest of a lot of them, or they're going to have to lease them to the highest bidder for private

0:54.0

interests and everybody is going to be shut out. And you can't go back once you've

1:00.0

really gone down that path. Hey everybody, Hal hearing,

1:05.0

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcasts and Blast.

1:08.0

Hey, I'm fired up this morning to announce that Savage Arms is going to be sponsoring this

1:14.2

podcast and it has a special significance to me because I'm sitting here

1:19.7

holding Savage Arms Stevens Model 9, Theories M, 20-Gage single barrel shotgun that I got for my ninth

1:30.4

birthday.

1:31.4

I have had that since 1973. It is polished off. It's silvered up. It's scratched. I passed it on to my son when he was 10, I think. That would have been in 2010 and all I've done in all those years is to change the replace the ejector.

2:05.0

That shotgun had change the So this whole thing is very important to me.

2:10.1

When people have come to me who are new hunters and they're asking me about a deer or elk rifle.

2:15.0

I always say first, I say the savage 110 and that,

2:20.0

so savage has been in business 125 years and the 110 is the longest continuously manufactured

2:28.4

bolt action rifle ever.

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