Sen. Jon Tester on mining at the gates of Yellowstone

Go West, Young Podcast stops in Tucson, Arizona for a conversation with House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva, Sonoran Institue CEO Stephanie Sklar, and NativesOutdoors founder Len Necefer.

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“

The Western Energy Alliance (WEA) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) have released a faulty analysis of the proposed Department of the Interior (DOI) hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rule that overestimates the annual cost of the rule by 90 percent, or over $310 million.[1] The economic analysis, which was completed by the private firm […]

DENVER — The Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from Trevor Kincaid after Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Director Matt Lepore made inaccurate statements about fracking opponents. Lepore stated that those concerned were wealthy individuals who weren’t concerned about home energy costs. Lepore’s statement illustrates the COGCC’s misunderstanding of local concerns over […]