The Trump administration’s energy and public lands priorities are unpopular in the West

A group of conservation and historical organizations is suing the Trump administration over Interior department policies that erase history and science from America’s national parks. The lawsuit filed yesterday lists Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and acting National Park Service Director Jessica Bowron as defendants. It asks the court to declare that Burgum’s order calling for the review or removal of information […]

This is an automatically generated transcript. Please excuse spelling and grammar 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 in Denver. Kate: And I’m Kate Groetzinger in Salt Lake City. Today on the pod, we’re taking a break from Trump […]

Department of the Interior officials attended a community meeting Friday to gather feedback on the proposal to designate Chuckwalla National Monument, signaling that the administration is interested in moving forward with a monument designation. Attendees included BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning and Acting Deputy Interior Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis. An estimated 700 people attended the meeting, and […]

The Biden administration on Monday unveiled a $7.3 trillion Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal to fund the federal government. While the proposal is not expected to be enacted as written, it highlights the Biden administration’s policy priorities for the final year of his first term. In particular, the spending proposal requests a boost in funding for the […]

Kate and Aaron are joined by pollsters Lori Weigel and Dave Metz to discuss the 14th Annual Colorado College State of the Rockies Project Conservation in the West poll. The poll surveys voters in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Colorado on their environmental views. This year, it found support for conservation […]