There's an old saying about when you are up to your knees in alligators, it is sometimes hard to remember the original object was to drain the swamp. There are people in Northern Minnesota who can legitimately use the saying in regard to tens of thousands of acres of land which have been a political football for almost a century, ever since settlers tried to drain it. But as Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Robertson reports from Bemidji, it seems there could be a resolution in sight of the future of the so-called consolidated conservation lands.