Jessica Loya and the Hispanic Access Foundation

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, used a machine learning model to predict which surface waters and wetlands were federally regulated in order to help answer a long-standing question: What does the Clean Water Act actually protect? The original 1972 Clean Water Act forbids dredging, filling, or discharging pollutants into a wetland or stream without first receiving a […]

Scientists and leaders from over 190 countries are gathered in Montreal this week to discuss the biodiversity crisis at COP15, also known as the UN Biodiversity Conference. Possible outcomes of the conference might include agreements on global strategies to conserve biodiversity, linking climate change with the biodiversity crisis, and acknowledging the importance of Indigenous people in all conservation efforts. […]

On September 12, 1865, 31 Indigenous men, women, and children were massacred by government soldiers on Thacker Pass in Nevada. While there has been some debate about the exact location of the massacre, part of that history was recorded by the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) own historical records and was recently affirmed by a land survey this past July. Thacker […]

CWP’s Lucy Livesay talks about her new report on public lands visitation, 290 Million Reasons to Invest in America’s Public Lands.

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“