ms. hansen. guest: you bring up a great point. like i mentioned, i get to spend a lot of time on federal land and i am very grateful for that. i have also noticed these problems, we have a lot of buildup of flammable materials, which creates concerns about wildfires. a big problem, and something that i found is that it tends to be more politically popular to designate new land and to acquire new land rather than to spend resources taking care of the land that we already have. we have a huge maintenance backlog. byot could be improved really focusing more on maintaining the land that we do have and making sure we preserve it for future generations rather than continuing to acquire more. host: wyoming, mike joins us. hello, good morning. caller: good morning. the biggest problem i can see and a lot of western states is that there is a lot of it. the question is? caller: i want to know how long they are landlocked and the people that they landlocked them, they will not let you into public land that our tax dollars pay for, yet they c