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🗓️ 17 September 2019
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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a new, state-specific Roadless Rule that would impact 4 million acres of National Forest lands in Utah. Does anybody in Utah want to protect roadless lands, which offer some of the world’s best backcountry hunting, hiking, fishing, skiing; some of the world’s most scenic places; and some of our most valuable fish and wildlife habitat? Yes, they do. Two of them are Utah BHA board member Andrew Wike, a hunter, climber and ski mountaineer based in Salt Lake City, and Andrew Rasmussen, field coordinator with Trout Unlimited, who lives in Logan. Surprises abound in this podcast, as well as a window into Utah’s rather unique politics.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody I'm I'm going to remind you that September is Public Lands Month and it's a month to celebrate Public Lands obviously wildlife clean water opportunities that we have in this country today. |
0:14.0 | I know public lands are probably important to everybody who's listening to this. |
0:18.0 | So if you are not a member of Backcountry Hundreds and Anglers, check it out and sign up if you can. |
0:25.4 | BHA's been working, probably leading the charge on public land stuff, access, clean water, |
0:31.2 | you name it. It's a huge movement and it couldn't come at a better time |
0:37.1 | and it needs your support. |
0:39.6 | And it's a great thing to be a part of at this time in our history. I think we all have an opportunity to step up and be counted and speak out and make real change for the for the good. |
0:51.0 | Memberships are 25 bucks. |
0:53.0 | If you act right now, you'll get a free public landowner t-shirt with your membership. |
0:57.4 | You can sign up, backcountryhunters.org. |
1:01.3 | Go into backcountry hunters. org check out the group talk to people and |
1:07.1 | join us if you can thank y'all |
1:11.6 | so it seems as though this is already something that the Forest Service is looking at |
1:16.6 | they're aware of and we're just consistently seeing politics at the national level going away from |
1:23.6 | funding the Forest Service to the extent that it should be and you know we've |
1:26.8 | seen this with the Land and Water Conservation Fund right? |
1:29.2 | We'll pass the law but we won't allocate the money. Well what that means is the office holders in Utah of partisan races are beholden to an |
1:40.5 | accountable to, and it's a better way to put it, accountable accountable to literally only a handful of people, |
1:46.0 | a few dozen in the case of legislators |
1:47.8 | and a few hundred in a case of congressmen. |
1:50.0 | When you go out, you know, like I go hike up this mountain that we can see out the window here, right? |
1:56.0 | And you know, a big chunk of that mountain is Forest Service land. |
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