BHA’s Podcast & Blast, Ep. 55: Randy Newberg and Land Tawney on the Crisis at the BLM

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Calling all American public land owners! The time for action is upon us. In wildland firefighting, a backburn is setting a fire to stop a fire … burning fuels ahead of a conflagration that must be stopped. This episode of BHA’s Podcast & Blast, featuring Hunt Talk’s Randy Newberg and BHA President and CEO Land Tawney along with host Hal Herring, is our version of a backburn. We are setting a fire in our country, raising a public land owner’s flag and marching on Washington, D.C. The administration’s appointment of William Perry Pendley, an outspoken proponent of selling off our American public lands, to head the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 248 million acres of our lands and waters, poses an unprecedented threat to our outdoor traditions and shared resources. We cannot allow it to proceed unchallenged.

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0:00.0	That's true of all kinds of things in environment, conservation, public lands.
0:06.3	There's always to be terrible ideas come up and it's our responsibility as
0:10.6	participants in a participatory Democratic Republic to participate.
0:15.0	There was Penn Show's sales pitch, the greatest good for the greatest number for the greatest period of time.
0:22.0	People need to start asking. greatest number for the greatest period of time.
0:23.0	People need to start asking their congressional delegates.
0:27.0	Why are we doing this?
0:28.0	I think we need to go farther than asking, right?
0:31.0	Like I think we need to be...
0:32.0	Demanding, There you go.
0:33.0	And I can't tell you who to vote for and who not to vote for.
0:35.0	What I can tell you is if you voted for a republic right now, you should be picking up the
0:38.2	damn phone and saying, hey, why is this going on?
0:41.0	What are you going to do about it?
0:42.4	Like one of you said earlier, there's going to be its challenges when you have that many different interests using a large landscape.
0:49.0	But it can be done, but it doesn't get done by bringing the enemy in or a vandal.
0:55.0	But he said the final jury in America, the final court is the court of the citizens.
1:02.0	And they are the ones who are going to decide.
1:06.1	He said and all the others want to work around the edge.
1:10.1	He said that court of the public, the citizen, their thought, happens in the daylight.
1:16.8	In the transparent bubble we call democracy.
1:21.1	He said, the fringe elements operate in the dark and they fear the transparency.
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