Wild Stories for Public Lands Day

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 […]

On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding the approval of the Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada. Tribes and conservation groups have been challenging the approval for the past two years. A number of Tribes hold the area as sacred; in addition to being currently used for ceremonies and for plant-gathering, Thacker Pass […]

At the 2023 Conservation in Action Summit yesterday, President Joe Biden used his power under the Antiquities Act to designate Avi Kwa Ame and Castner Range national monuments, protecting more than 500,000 acres of U.S. land and honoring the requests of Tribal Nations, including the Fort Mojave Tribe, one of the leaders of the campaign to protect the area surrounding […]

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“