The Navajo Nation’s post-coal future

National Park Service (NPS) employees were instructed late last week to submit their resumes as the Interior department prepares to make more staff reductions. This comes on the heels of an order signed by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum giving Tyler Hassen, Elon Musk’s DOGE operative, complete control of the department’s organization and staffing. Hassen does not need to report […]

The Sierra Club is suing a powerful California water agency over a deal designed to help save the Colorado River—because the agreement will increase the drying of the Salton Sea, which is itself a growing environmental disaster. Under the water conservation agreement, the Imperial Irrigation District, which holds some of the most senior water rights […]

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 […]

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“

A headline in the Salt Lake Tribune caught our eye this morning: “Interior, tribal meeting sparks fear of new Utah monument designation.” That raises the question: Who’s actually “afraid” of new national monuments? The answer, according to the Tribune, is Utah State Representative Ken Ivory, who’s also the CEO of the American Lands Council, a […]