Idaho governor: Collaboration is key to solving problems

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A collaborative process that gives everyone a say is key to solving many federal public lands issues in the West, Idaho Gov. Brad Little said yesterday."Good resource management in the West requires that people are not disenfranchised because they don't have a voice in how they manage the federal lands," the Republican said in a keynote speech to the Western Governors' Association's Working Lands Roundtable.The association represents 22 Western states and Pacific territories. Many states in the West contain huge swaths of federal public land, most of it administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service. In Idaho, those two agencies oversee just over 60% of the state's land area.