Steven Rinella
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What's the big festival in California?
The Burning Man?
The Burning Man.
The Burning Man is on BLM land.
So BLM land is like... Is it really?
It's on public land.
I didn't know that.
The Burning Man festival is on BLM land.
The BLM makes money by permitting the Burning Man to occur on their BLM property.
All kinds of shit is happening on...
this land, cattle grazing, right?
It's a multi-use landscape.
But what doesn't happen is it doesn't get permanently developed.
So in states, Utah is a hotbed of anti-public land sentiment in the political delegation there.
A lot of it comes from Nevada, where they want more land to develop.
And this public land system, this federal land system, stands in their way of having more areas to develop and more areas
produce revenue from, produce opportunities for friends and developers.
And therein lies the rub.
There's some states where, like, I happen to live in Montana.