Trump’s take on public land bucks Western trend

Donald Trump in Trump Tower, 2015. Photo: Michael Vadon
Alaska issues don’t come up much in presidential debates, but Donald Trump did face a public lands question, and his answer struck a nerve among Western conservatives.
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A reporter for the magazine Field & Stream did an interview with Trump in late January in Las Vegas.
“Seventy percent of hunters in the West hunt on public lands managed by the federal government. Right now there’s a lot dis