From Meat Eater's World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cal's Week in Review with Ryan Calahan.

Here's Cal.

Hey, what's happening there every Cal's Week in Review listener?

This week, you got a very special podcast,

falling up, as per usual with other things

that we've talked about on the pod.

Namely, this week we are talking about this

unfortunately recurring situation of a bunch of knuckleheads wanting to take our publicly accessible federally managed lands for reasons unknown, but if we had to put a guess on it it'd probably be for short-term profit.

Failure to look further than the end of your nose from a land management perspective and value perspective.

Last week or the week before I had talked probably a little too long for you about the amazing opportunity that we have to look at what's

happening in the state of Florida with their state-managed lands, state-owned and managed lands,

where there's a current petition

where Ron DeSantis and his cabinet

are just getting their teeth kicked in because they obviously don't spend any time outside with the people and the people are saying this proposal to maximize state profits on state-owned recreation land through the building of hotels, pickleball courts, golf courses, fall courses in areas where the average Joe public can still access pristine beach, sea,

endangered and threatened wildlife.

That stuff's just not going to fly, Ron. and threatened wildlife.

That stuff's just not gonna fly Ron.

And it's perfect because that's our major fear when people bring up this idea of a land transfer or sale or management trade of federally managed and maintained lands to the state government.

The states are typically mandated to maximize profits on those state-run lands.

And this example in Florida could be the example in Utah. I say Utah because right now Utah has a

lawsuit against the federal government to try to take 18 and a half million

acres of federally managed lands for the state of Utah. That's a little rough shot explanation, but just as, you know, in the, because I'm self-aware believe it or not I have a special guest

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