Ep 1: The Bundy verdict & how to win the west

Kate and Aaron talk to Chris Clarke, host of the 90 Miles from Needles podcast, about the Cadiz pipeline project, a water mining project that poses a huge threat to the Mojave Desert. This project has been around in some form or another for over four decades and the latest iteration is especially insidious. News […]

Acting Interior Secretary orders money meant for deferred maintenance projects and visitor services to be spent hauling trash and cleaning bathrooms As the government shutdown drags into a third week, many national parks are straining under the impacts of the Trump administration’s decision to leave them open, but understaffed. Around the country, parks are facingmounting piles […]

A conversation with Luis Benitez, director of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office. Links mentioned in the show: Headwaters Economics, Federal Lands in the West: Liability or Asset? The history of “This Land is Your Land“

By Brian Gottlieb “The beautiful mountains.” “Access to the outdoors.” “The opportunities to go out onto the public land.” Those are just a few of the answers we heard when we asked over 1,000 likely Colorado voters what they like about living in their state. If you’re familiar with Colorado, the Rocky Mountain West and […]

On the third week of the armed standoff at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Westerners gathered outside state capitol buildings and in city and town centers to express their support for our national public lands and the public employees that care for them. Ammon Bundy and the group of armed, anti-government extremists that seized Malheur […]