Hello everybody and welcome back this is Hal Herring backcountry hunters and

anglers podcast and blast hey I'm recorded introduction to this this episode

today it's it may feel as if it dropped a little out of Clear Blue Sky,

down in the Bearsiers National Monument of San Juan County, Utah.

And in a way, perhaps it did.

For last couple years, I've been working on a movie about American Public Lands

mostly in the West. That movie's called Public Trust. It was released in

Missoula on February 17th of 2020 and during the course of helping with that movie,

I was an interviewer and kind of a talking head

and I met some extraordinary people in some extraordinary places from the Arctic through to New Mexico

up into San Juan County, Utah, all through Montana, Idaho.

It's just, it was an epic sort of adventure and amongst those folks that I met was

Angela Baca. His father was a Hopi. His mother is a Navajo. They both speak Navajo.

Angelo is kind of an extraordinary, I don't know how you'd say it. He's a filmmaker.

He's a writer, he's working on his PhD at New York University right now, but he's very much from the

Blanding, Utah country where his people have been for thousands and

thousands of years and he was instrumental in working on the the coalition of five

tribes Hopi Zuni, Navajo, Pueblo, and Mountain Ute, which came together to advocate for and to help

draw a management plan for the Bearsier's National Monument which President

Obama established of course and and which of course President Trump has

rescinded from 1.3 million acres I believe, 1.35 million

acres, a reduction of about 85 percent. Really it was just an attack on the monument and the whole idea of the Antiquities Act of 1906 which under which the monument was designated.

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