Over the past couple of months a good friend (Bobby) and I have been talking off and on about the impressive public lands push spearheaded by a number of advocacy and affinity groups. Here’s a great example – TU is now fully on the public lands bandwagon, as they damned well should be, and have recently posted a new page called We Are Public Lands.
Those of us from Montana, one of the public land loving states of the Northern Rockies, territory my friend and I both claim as home even as work occasionally takes us to different locales around the country, have been fighting public land access battles for years. We’ve been writing about it frequently here since early 2011, to the point of annoying some readers along the way.
It seems hardly a day passes that the topic doesn’t come up in one form or another, though much more so during this election season.
Bobby has shared some of the most insightful commentary on public lands that I’ve heard (or read) anywhere. He’s articulates the nuances of the public lands debate more insightfully than the marketing oriented pitches you’re reading in advocacy group emails, and he speaks from a rare position of authority as a 5th generation Montana rancher with business interests, land related business interests, in a number of states around the country.
I’ve done a bit of arm twisting and asked Bobby to share some of these thoughts with us here on CW over the next few weeks. If you give a damn about public lands, you’ll appreciate what he has to say.
More to come.
