Wildfires, houses, and climate change

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed an emergency order blocking conservation groups from participating in state oil and gas auctions. The order came at the request of oil and gas companies that were upset after the Wyoming Outdoor Council (WOC) tried to buy a lease on a parcel in the “path of the pronghorn” migration corridor last year. Under […]

As wildfires in California become larger and hotter due to climate change, the U.S. Forest Service is making plans to aggressively thin forests in order to protect giant sequoia trees. The trees are the world’s tallest organism and are found nowhere but California. One-fifth of all giant sequoias have been destroyed over the past two years, according to the Forest Service.  […]

The acquisition of more than 35,000 acres of formerly private land in Wyoming shows how the Land and Water Conservation Fund is key to the success of the Biden administration’s 30×30 initiative. The Bureau of Land Management last week completed its purchase of Marton Ranch, which runs along 8.8 miles of the North Platte River. […]

President Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that will lay the groundwork for protecting some of America’s biggest and oldest trees.  Biden’s order will direct the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to inventory mature forests nationwide, and require the agencies to identify threats to old-growth trees (generally, those over 80 years old) and use that […]

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“