Ep. 6: State legislatures in 2017

This year, Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project celebrated the tenth anniversary of its Conservation in the West Poll, which has become a benchmark for assessing Western attitudes towards conservation and public lands throughout the past decade. The poll shows clearly that voters in the West care deeply about clean air and water, wildlife, […]

Jesse Prentice-Dunn and Sara Rose Tannenbaum walk us through the Center for Western Priorities’ new state conservation scorecard.

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“

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJANUARY 3, 2017 DENVER—The U.S. House of Representatives is voting on a “rules package” for the 115th Congress. In an unprecedented maneuver, the bill includes an amendment that paves the way for Congress to give away or sell off American public land and energy resources. The amendment in question, which was written by […]

Opportunity for candidates to win support with pro-outdoors positions on public lands “Winning the West” effort geared towards highlighting importance of outdoor issues for campaigns looking to gain votes in Montana and Mountain West swing states The Center for Western Priorities released its 2016 Montana Winning the West poll—conducted for the first time in the […]