Hey folks, Randy Noberg here with the Hunt Talk podcast, Hunt Talk Radio, as some of you know it as Randy Noberg unfiltered.

I'm in Bozeman, Montana today with my buddy Dan Doty, who is, as you've come to learn, the producer of this operation he works for 0.0.

And we were going through all the questions that you have been sending us out on the Hunt Talk forum.

And it's not new to those of us out on the Hunt Talk or those of us in the West, but a lot of these questions focus around public lands.

And to get even deeper into what the crux of it is across the West, there's a resurgence of this idea that is an old idea.

But what it is is that somehow if the state trust departments of the West took over these lands from the BLM and from the Forest Service, somehow it would save all that ails us and Dan though they're nodding his head like really?

So anyhow, we've looked at a lot of these questions you guys gave us and Dan and I are going to kind of have our own little back and forth Q&A session.

And the reason we're doing a full podcast and who knows it might grow into a second podcast on this topic is in the summer of 2015 as I'm sitting here right now.

There is no issue more important to hunters, whether you live in the West and Hunt the West or you live somewhere else in Hunt the West, there is no issue more important than that preserving access to these public lands.

So I'm going to give you the history.

I'm going to kind of use Dan as my student here to ask questions and not let me skip over the details because one thing that's been pointed out to me Dan is rainy.

Rainy, you go too fast sometimes you're you're taking advantage or you're assuming.

Yeah, I'll keep you keep you on point and make sure answering all the questions and this I mean it's legit too as being a student here.

I've been learning about the stuff from Randy over the past year or so maybe a little longer and yeah, it's a very complex and fascinating subject and important.

So it's pretty legit.

Yeah, curiosity in the fact that it's so complicated is what gives the other side the easy two second sound bite.

You think about it. It's usually pitched as all those damn feds they can't manage their land.

Well, really who are the feds? The feds is Congress.

So if we got problems with how our state land or our federal lands are managed, it's Congress's problem.

They're the ones who say, oh, we can't charge the going rate for oil and gas royalties.

We can't charge the going rate for grazing leases. We're not going to charge the going rate for coal leases.

But then they'll same guys in Congress who want to snivel about how public lands on the federal level are managed when you pass a bill to say, hey, let's manage these a little bit more like the states do and increase these fees and make sure we're getting fair market value.

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