The American outdoorsman — whether an angler floating through a canyon while fishing for brown trout or a hunter looking for the rubs, fresh scat, and tracks where their game of choice is feeding — is often depicted by legacy media as a disparate collection of people spread all across the country.
Their preference to spend their vacation time in a bear camp, gathered around a campfire, or standing in ice-cold rushing streams is perplexing to the media’s more refined tastes.
It doesn’t get the complex rush of adrenaline and observation, or why it is fulfilling to embrace both simultaneously.
Because of that disconnect, the media underestimated what happens when the powerful attempt to take away the cherished freedom to use America’s beloved and expansive public lands. This was exactly what Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee attempted when he proposed the sale of millions of acres of federal lands in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The reaction to Lee’s proposal was deafening if you were paying attention.
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