Rep. Raúl Grijalva on Trump and the power of protest

President Donald Trump is planning to put a longtime oil and gas advocate in charge of the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 245 million acres of national public land and a 700 million acre subsurface mineral estate. His pick, Kathleen Sgamma, is the head of the Western Energy Alliance, a trade association for oil and gas […]

Representative Deb Haaland and Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Lujan join us in this episode of CWP’s Go West, Young Podcast, recorded at the Wildlife Corridors Summit in Taos, New Mexico. News Sage-grouse populations continue to decline in Idaho and across the West Conservation groups warn new oil and gas leases will threaten the sage-grouse even […]

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“

This week Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and several senior Obama administration officials traveled to Bluff, Utah where they heard from thousands of people about the need to protect the Bears Ears region, a scenic area of southeastern Utah home to an estimated 100,000 archaeological sites that are threatened by looting and vandalism. A coalition of […]

Despite the high-profile protests of the Bundy family against the federal government, new public opinion research by the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project shows broad support for U.S. land managers as well as widespread opposition to attempts to turn over national public lands to state or private management. But what’s particularly compelling is […]