UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF STEWARDSHIP

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“I was born in Idaho and grew up in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Public land was my family's access to the outdoors. It was the cheap way to experience camping, hiking, hunting, and fishing. And during that process, I got to become a junior ranger at a state park in Colorado at the age of 11. Now, fast forward 21 years later, I now work for the U.S. Forest Service, protecting our federal lands and our public lands and ensuring that the wild spaces remain wild for future generations to use.

If our public lands are sold off, there will be no one else to experience these wild places from a young age, that will then go forward to steward the land.”

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