Emma Marris on the Klamath drought and ‘Wild Souls’

The report raises the possibility of wire fraud, foreign solicitation, and Hatch Act violations.

In this episode, Kate and Aaron discuss how Congress is using the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn public land management plans, creating chaos and uncertainty for federal lands. Steve Bloch from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance explains that the CRA, originally designed to review agency rules, is now being weaponized to repeal resource management […]

Kate and Aaron are joined by three members of the reporting team behind, Lithium Liabilities, a groundbreaking investigation into how lithium mining could affect the West’s water supply. Emma Peterson, Morgan Casey, and Lauren Mucciolo are part of a large team of editors, photographers, and reporters who worked on the investigation at the Howard Center […]

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“