Ep. 339: The Greatest Conservation Win in Decades? with Land Tawney

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show I'm joined by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers CEO Land Tawney to discuss one of the most significant conservation and public land victories in decades - the Great American Outdoors Act - and what all this momentum means for the future of hunting, fishing, and public lands.

Topics discussed:

What is the Great American Outdoors Act
How significant is this?
The importance of the Land and Water Conservation Fund for hunters/anglers/outdoors people
The importance of funding public land maintenance
Is this a political gambit? And does it matter if it is?
How to make sure this becomes a reality
What's the MAPland Act?
What are hunters/anglers doing well that has led to this kind of conservation win?
What do we need to do a better job of?
Are our public lands still suffering a "death by a thousand cuts?"
What do we need to turn our attention to next?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast.
0:05.9	Your home for dear hunting news stories and strategies.
0:10.1	And now your host, Mark Kenyon.
0:13.4	Alright, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast brought to you by Onyx.
0:18.5	Today we are celebrating.
0:20.5	My friends we are celebrating some very good news when it comes to public land and wildlife
0:25.7	conservation and hunting and hiking and fishing and just about anything else related to access
0:31.2	to the outdoors in America because a new bill was introduced this week with bipartisan
0:36.8	support called the Great American Outdoors Act.
0:40.0	And it is accomplishing several very important things that hunters and anglers and other
0:45.1	conservationists have been working on for a long time.
0:48.1	And it seems knock on wood, barring some kind of disaster that there is support to pass
0:52.6	this thing into law.
0:54.2	And this is all happening.
0:55.2	It's all happening as far as I can tell at least because you guys and a whole lot of
0:58.8	other folks across the country have rallied around these causes of public lands and conservation
1:03.9	and wild places and made it just plain required, made it necessary for politicians to start
1:10.1	paying attention and to start supporting this stuff.
1:13.4	You know I wrote in my book That Wild Country right towards the end.
1:16.8	I wrote about the fact that you know while there are myriad challenges to conservation
1:21.2	and public lands, while these challenges and these attacks are going to keep coming,
1:24.7	forever and ever and ever, history has also shown that when Americans come together, regardless
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