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And now, your host, Mark Kenyon.

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

This week on the show, I'm joined by Land Tawny, the co-chair of American hunters and anglers,

to discuss the recent battle over public lands and what we should be looking forward to

and expecting in the coming weeks and months when it comes to public lands and what we should be looking forward to and expecting in the coming weeks and

months when it comes to public lands and future threats.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Light and their

Camo for Conservation Initiative. And today we're talking public lands. And we are talking about a

recent controversy that's been brewing the last few months that hopefully you're aware of. Hopefully

you've seen this either here on my social media or on the Wiredunt podcast or the meat eater

podcast or KALS podcast or across many other platforms that have been talking about what's happening.

But in short, we have been experiencing a series of different proposals to sell off public lands.

And these proposals were part of the one big beautiful bill that's been debated in the House and

Senate and recently signed into law

by President Trump. And these proposals were talking about doing everything from selling off

hundreds of thousands of acres of our federal public lands up to maybe as much as three

million acres of public lands. And as again, I hope you are aware, there was this massive

opposition to that, this massive pushback from hunters and anglers and outdoor folks of all

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