BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 72: Celebrating Expanded Public Access to State Trust Lands in Colorado

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Colorado’s state trust lands have been held in an iron fist by some of the most anti-public access policies and regulations found anywhere in the Western states. The battle has been simmering for decades: Clearly, Coloradoans were demanding change. Since 2012, BHA’s Colorado chapter has been leading the battle for increased access … and Colorado Parks and Wildlife responded, announcing last summer the opening of 500,000 acres of state trust lands for fishing and hunting over the next three years. Hal travels to Denver for a deep dive into these issues and questions with BHA State Policy Director (and obsessive waterfowler) Tim Brass and Liz Rose, a hunter, scholar and researcher who has helped BHA uncover the paths that can lead us to a better future for all outdoors people across the nation.

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0:00.0	Who here is actually a hundred state trust land thinking there might be a few people
0:06.7	because it is kind of this specific type of state land and a bunch of hands went up.
0:12.0	And people were all, I was like thrilled that so many people are not only
0:16.5	interested in expanding public access in theory but they're actually going out
0:21.2	You know a lot of people kind of say like why state trust lands? Yeah. And I think there's I think there's a lot more that can be done. That's kind of that low hanging fruit in terms of the amount of staff and money it's going to take the agency to kind of open these
0:38.4	new lands up.
0:39.4	I think I was in Colorado at that time, not Texas, but I remember people saying, well, it's the land that no one wants that they're transferring.
0:46.5	And I'm like, that's the land where we used to go camp and ride dirt bikes and shoot guns.
0:50.0	And that's like, that's really important.
0:52.0	Right.
0:53.0	What kind of society is it going to be?
0:54.0	Yeah, right.
0:55.0	Yeah, right.
0:56.0	You need that land too.
0:58.0	We'd like to thank Sitka Gear,
1:01.0	maker of the most effective hunting and outdoor apparel in the world for their
1:06.0	sponsorship of this podcast. We wouldn't be here without them and I really
1:10.8	appreciate it. Thank you.
1:13.0	Hello everybody and welcome back.
1:14.7	This is Backcountry Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blast.
1:17.6	I'm Hal Herring and I am in Longmont, Colorado.
1:21.8	That's right.
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