Michael Finkel and the North Pond Hermit

The big budget bill offers up hundreds of millions of acres of public land for drilling, logging, and mining and strips funding from the National Park Service and BLM The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is anything but beautiful for public lands. Lawmakers in Congress hid incredibly destructive and unpopular favors to the coal, oil and […]

This is an automatically generated transcript. Please excuse spelling and grammar errors.  Aaron: Welcome to The Landscape. This is your show about America’s Parks and Public Lands. I’m Erin Weiss with the Center For Western Priorities in Denver. Kate: And I’m Kate Gretzinger in Salt Lake City. Today, we’re talking to Zac Podmore about his […]

This is an automatically generated transcript. Please excuse spelling and grammatical errors.  Aaron: Welcome to The Landscape, your show about America’s parks and public lands. I’m Aaron Weiss with the Center For Western Priorities, just outside of a beautiful and still quite warm Denver, Colorado this week. Kate: And I’m Kate Gretzinger in Salt Lake […]

After President Biden’s trip to designate Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado, momentum is building for more land and cultural protections across the country. President Biden on Tuesday signed a bill creating a national historic site at the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas. The site was a segregated school for children of Mexican descent from 1906 to 1965, when schools were […]

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“