Ep. 133 - BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

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

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 133: BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning

For Americans who live or venture west of the Mississippi River or north to Alaska, no public lands are more important, more abundant or more accessible than those managed by the Bureau of Land Management. We are talking about 247.3 million acres of public land (70 million of them in Alaska). In the Lower 48, this means elk hunting in the Missouri Breaks of Montana, Wyoming’s best pronghorn and mule deer country, quail hunting in the borderlands of New Mexico, and black bear or even bison hunting in the high desert mountains of Utah. The BLM manages the National Conservation Lands system, which includes millions of acres of America’s finest hiking, camping, wandering, canyoneering, rafting and access to rivers. The agency administers 18,000 grazing permits and is responsible for 700 million subsurface acres of publicly owned minerals. If it seems like an impossible task…well, sometimes it is. Today on the podcast we talk with BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning about the present and future of these lands – and how we can create a future in which politics is no longer the major obstacle to keeping these irreplaceable lands in public hands.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Welcome to Back Country Hunters and Anglers Podcasts and Blast. As always, thanks for being here.
0:08.0	You've never been here before. Thanks for coming. If you've been here a lot, thanks for coming back.
0:13.0	This is an introduction I want to do to this podcast
0:16.0	with the person I've known for a long time
0:18.0	and who is serving honorably
0:21.0	as the director of the Bureau of Land Management.
0:27.2	She's a Montana outdoors person
0:30.2	of longstanding conservation
0:32.1	and a pragmatic natural resources
0:35.2	expert and manager with a huge amount of experience both in conservation and in
0:41.0	working in government and natural resources.
0:45.0	That's Tracy Stone Manning.
0:47.0	She's from Northern Bitterroot there,
0:51.0	south of Missoula, and she's with us today. I just wanted to do a little background.
0:56.7	Tracy doesn't need much introduction. You can find that
1:08.0	on the Bureau of Land Management itself, what is at stake here that
1:16.0	Director Stone Manning is operating here is the some people call it the nation's largest landlord. It's 247 million acres surface. These are lands that went unclaimed after the various homestead acts or they were claimed
1:29.2	and abandoned during the attempts at homesteading the arid west, almost all BLM land is west of the Mississippi,
1:38.8	as far as I know all of it is.
1:41.8	And it is of critical interest to conservationists to hunters and
1:48.6	fishermen to grazers, miners, some log in, most of it is prairie or desert or rock.
2:01.6	People often say in Nevada's 73% public land and most of it managed by the BLM other than the
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