Ep. 141 - Nate Schweber - Public Lands Journalist
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Zack Williams
4.6 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 113 minutes
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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 141: Public Lands Journalist Nate Schweber
A flamboyant Western politician, yelling hatred for the federal government, accusing anyone who questioned him of being a “communist,” secretly planning a takeover and selloff of 230 million acres of public land to his cronies. Sounds like today, yes? Well, it was 1947, and it almost worked. Montana-born, New York City-seasoned reporter and writer Nate Schweber uncovers the whole sordid, instructive history in his wild ride of a book, This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild, a chronicle of the life of one man, DeVoto, the greatest Western historian who ever lived, and his wife, Avis, genius editor, publisher, devoted friend and promoter of the chef Julia Child, who stood up against some of the most powerful and corrupt forces of their time. And, with the help of the American people, they won.
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| 0:00.0 | This book then to me feels a gap that for a long, long time I was confused about it. |
| 0:10.0 | It was amazing investigative journalism. He got his scoop, he got his secret document, |
| 0:14.8 | and it did everything he expected to. He put that article in Harper's magazine, |
| 0:18.4 | The West Against Itself, and yeah, he stopped what would have been the sell off of possibly 230 million acres in American public lands. |
| 0:27.0 | As you're pointing out, this has a bigger audience. |
| 0:31.0 | People can be history, infers in history, and learn about conservation, and therefore they might actually go, |
| 0:36.0 | I need to pay more attention to conservation because historically, the changes that we've seen in the West are connected to politics and the resource. |
| 0:45.1 | You cannot separate them and this book clearly shows that how integral and how tightly woven those things were and still are. |
| 0:52.5 | Hey everybody, Hal hearing, backcountry hunters and anglers |
| 0:58.1 | podcast and blasts. |
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