Heather Hansman’s 700-mile solo float on the Green River

The U.S. has moved its national wildfire preparedness to its highest level as destructive fires continue to burn across the West. Severe fires burned in Utah and Colorado earlier this month, and large fires are currently burning elsewhere including in Oregon, Idaho, and Arizona. Last week, a firefighter died from injuries sustained a month earlier while fighting a fire […]

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 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 […]

This year, Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project celebrated the tenth anniversary of its Conservation in the West Poll, which has become a benchmark for assessing Western attitudes towards conservation and public lands throughout the past decade. The poll shows clearly that voters in the West care deeply about clean air and water, wildlife, […]

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“