MILLIONS of Acres Will be LOST FOREVER | Fresh Tracks Weekly EP.86
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- In this episode of Fresh Tracks Weekly, Marcus and Randy break down the harsh reality of federal land transfers and what they mean for recreational shooters. If federal lands are handed over to state land boards, millions of acres currently open to target shooting could be lost forever. They discuss real-world examples, the differences in land management policies, and why public land advocates should be paying attention. Don’t take access for granted-tune in to find out what’s at stake.
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I’m extremely anxious at the notion that public lands are transferred to the states! I’m a lifelong resident of Colorado and the Western United States. I couldn’t even imagine my kids not being able to camp, fish, hike, hunt, and explore with their kids! These lands have meant so much to my life, and I’m hoping there are enough people with like minds to stop land transfers from ever occurring!
wait they have just started , with the excecutive orders , to cut all your benifits and right . see what happens up to the 199 days of felons term . and musk running your country
Yes I agree! Even if you are a lifelong republican, it would be worth it to vote Dem in the midterms so the Trump admin cant dismantle our public lands
@@sheep55 Meanwhile the blue states gut and continue to wipe their ass with the second amendment?
Blue States ZERO CREDIBILITY!!!!
I'm a WA resident. Things here have gotten much worse year by year. I'm happy you guys are taking about this stuff. We need all hands on deck no doubt about it.
I keep raising alarm about Washington, for many reasons. One of which is that what happens in Washington soon happens in other states. I was just in WA earlier this month, meeting with some of your groups fighting this craziness.
Please reach out to your legislators and respectfully tell them how these bills affect you and why they are a bad idea or unconstitutional. These things won’t change unless we fight back!
Amen!!
In California, you can’t even walk on State lands with a firearm (even unloaded)or stranded bow.
That means if you have a compound bow, you have to take the string off to walk on State lands.
It’s horrible.
Fishing game will do sponsored hunts and then you’re allowed to have a firearm but other than that, it’s off-limits.
Correct. So imagine if the 45 million acres of Federal lands within CA borders were transferred to the same state agency that restricts recreational shooting in the way you describe. Not good.
Thanks for mentioning that shooters need to clean up after themselves when they are on state land. I belong to the same fantastic gun club that you do. Just south of it is a piece of state land that was open for recreational shooting. Over the years, shooters started messing it up more and more - leaving 1,000s of spent cases, broken(shot) bottles, and trash on the ground. My friends and I would pick up buckets full of this crap before we started shooting. Ultimately, we couldn't keep up. It got out of hand. Now, this area has been shut down to shooting by the state. The knucklehead slobs hurt the rest of us ... again!
Keep up the fight, Randy! Wish I could join you in Helena. Hope your 2min opens the eyes of the blind!
I’ve commented on a few comments but will do so here also; this is concerning because as a Colorado native I wasn’t even aware of these issues. This is something that would directly affect me in multiple ways and I do want to know how to get involved. Who can we call? Who can we vote out of office? I’ve kept my head down long enough quietly taking the changes Colorado makes without comment. Enough is enough. They started bugging me with magazine capacity bans then it was 3 day “cooling off periods” before taking possession of purchased firearms. It’s like these folks don’t even know who they are pissing off, the ones with the guns!
If they have a D next to their name vote them out!!!!!
You should ask your State Land Board commissioners. You should ask your State Representative and State Senator. My home state of Montana had identical rules to your Colorado rules until we got it changed in the state legislature. We now pay a small fee that goes to the Schools and we get access to 5.2 million acres of state land; win-win. You could do the same in Colorado if hunters, hikers, campers, shooters, and anglers got united and pushed for it.
Hey Randy. Met you in Seattle/Puyallup, WA in 2023 and enjoyed 20 min convo and then sat in on your presentation. I've fished and hunted WA state for 30 years as a Florida transplant. Yep. Ken and Karen are always coming up with something to have to push back on. Enjoyed this episode and all your Fresh Tracks shows. Be great to spend time in the field with you as most all of my hunt camp has passed on...but I don't quit. Welp... Keep finding out what you can't find in! Appreciate you.
Randy, if you ever run for office, I'll vote for you!
Washington’s HB1504 that would require $25000 insurance or bond per gun has been declared dead for this session. The politicians discovered this bill is too hot a potato to touch.
I didn’t watch the whole video, so I apologize if it was covered. Project 2025 calls for the elimination of the Conservation Reserve Program. That may not be a big deal in the West, but in the Midwest where there is very little public land to begin with, it will have impacts. Losing valuable wildlife habitat and the walk in programs that are created for it. Hunting is about to get a lot harder for those without deep pockets.
Hello Good Folks.
Here's some recent information on Bears Ears National Monument:
1) The "Approved Resource Management Plan" was issued in January 2025.
2) A free digital version (pdf) can be downloaded from the Monument's webpage.
3) Because of input from recreational shooters the proposed shooting ban was changed; the ban now only applies in campgrounds, around pictographs & petroglyphs and developed areas, etc.
Hope this update is of interest.
Best to All...
Randy, thank you for sharing more, just sent an email to Russ Fulcher my Idaho state rep, sending it to my senators next
Stay informed, stay involved.
If not involved, get involved!
Agree!
@@Fresh_TracksWhat are the most effective ways to get involved? I am a lifelong Coloradoan and I’ve almost never agreed with the politics here but I love the geography. Born and raised in northern Colorado, we use Pawnee National Grasslands to shoot maybe one or two weekends out of every month. This worries me and I don’t know how to get involved effectively.
Our hound hunting has been in the crosshairs for while and its getting worse
You can thanks southern dog hunters for that
Great info! 👍🏻 😊
State lands are not public lands, utah and the blm just swapped 200,000 acres in the Emrey County Land swap. Local rumor is the state might sell/lease most of what they got in the trade to mining companies.
Yup. It will be interesting to see what Utah SITLA does with those lands.
Well, what do people think will happen when the billionaire's choice gets elected? Up next: the guy who says he takes guns without due process confiscates guns without due process.
Agreed!
There’s a bunch of state land trust in California that’s prone hunting and we’re not allowed to do squat with it.
Howdy Randy,
I know that you hunt a number of our provinces so why is it that you rarely talk about Canadian legislation and regulations that negatively impact hunting, fishing and crown (public) land access? We face many of the the same or similar challenges in our various provinces/territories just as you do across the various states.
I can’t influence anything in Canada as non-resident alien, so I focus on where our platforms might make a difference. I wish you weren’t dealing with some of those problems in Canada. I hope some of your hunters and gun owners start getting mobilized.
Notice a correlation between the hatred and disdain for all things firearm related and blue states?? duh. A firearm owner voting "blue" is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
Correct. That is a good outcome. Hopefully shooters don't continue shooting artifacts and petroglyphs as they have in some instances that brings forth the calls to restrict recreational shooting. And hopefully we can get Congress to approve more funding for public ranges on public lands.
True leaders are few and far between, it seems like most people nowadays that are in a leadership position are followers, not leaders. Our country is full of bobbleheads and chickenshits that are afraid of confrontation.
I wish it was different, but I agree with your assessment.
They just want the money Randy !
who am i voting outta office sincserly a wyomingight
Not sure. Sometimes it's better/easier to try change their minds by communicating with them.
OK, you are getting my blood boiling now Randy. I hope you realize the hippacracy of what you are professing about the guns and second amendment!! I agree with your assertion that we should have the right to have our guns, But the leaders that wrote the second amendment could not foresee AR 15/10 platform assault weapons, handguns that held 30 rounds and could disperse them in a few seconds, and the wide availability to the general public of such weapons. It is your attitude about supporting that --- that is feeding the ammunition (no pun intended) to the groups opposed to guns! Also, the groups like the NRA and others are major contributors to the Republican party, the party that wants to privatize all public land and supports locking people out of the public land they own in things like "corner crossing" lawsuits, because "property rights" trump (also no pun intended) the public rights, that also fuels the bad blood from the public! I learned as an Army officer, that you don't concede the best positions in a battle field, and you don't hand the enemy ammunition. We have a shared goal, but I have a whole different evaluation of our situation than you seem to express.
"And where are you people ---- sitting on your asses doing nothing" ------ well Randy, the vast majority are in the party that controls the situations you are railing against! Most are not independent thinkers like you, and do not see the larger picture.
Its amazing how badly the media has messed up some peoples heads with division. Randy mentions the second amendment and you go on a anti-republican rant where you are practically foaming at the mouth and reaching as far as you can. People might take you and those like you more seriously if it wasn't so apparent that your every thought and effort was a product of your irrational hatred of republicans.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" so because our forefathers didn’t foresee it, we should be limited? I don’t understand. Our forefathers didn’t foresee a lot of things the amount of taxes we have at the government state and county level. Many other things as well such as: Airplanes
Electricity running water basic plumbing in houses
Cars
Insurance
Smart phones
FaceTime
Refrigerators
Endlessly amounts of thangs that the founding fathers did not foresee like fentanyl.
Just because they didn’t foresee it doesn’t mean there’s not wisdom in it. One could also argue the governments at that time didn’t have fighter jets, or nukes, just because we’ve gotten good at war doesn’t mean a free people should be relegated to old technology.
I'm sorry but to say that the founding fathers were to limited in their imagination to see development in firearm technology is completely absurd.
What they couldn't look back at what army's we using back in the 1st and 2nd century's and see a progression of swords and bows to the early hand Cannon and wheel locks?
Even people were trying to invent helicopter's and airplane's as far back as Leanard'o Davinci
Or just look at H. G. Wells writings from 2000 leagues under the sea to war of the worlds. I think some people are just trying to push their ideas about how they feel by trying to make others that were in fact more intelligent then they are by saying stupid crap that doesn't hold up to common sense.
Randy you keep that fire and brimstone talk up you just might stroke out.
Just remember it's politics. Deep breath.
Marcus reminds me of that. Public access to public lands is a "Cold Dead Hands" issue for me.
We've got groups in Oregon doing this kind of stuff with the rivers.