PHOTOS: FETCHER RANCH

This is an automatically generated transcript. Please excuse spelling and grammar errors. Aaron: This is The Landscape, your show about America’s parks, public lands and politics today. I’m Aaron Weiss with the Center For Western Priorities, thawing out a little bit finally in Denver after a frigid cold weekend. Kate: And I’m Kate Groetzinger in […]

Aaron and Kate are joined by Davina Smith, who represents the Navajo Nation on the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, and Lauren Henson, who is the Collaborative Management and Tribal Support Specialist for the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, to talk about the Bears Ears draft monument management plan, which came out in March. We talk about […]

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 […]

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is trying as hard as he can to defend the indefensible‚Ää—‚Ääthe largest-ever reduction of public lands protections in American history. In the days after President Trump signed a proclamation that attempted to remove more than two million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase‚ÄìEscalante National Monuments, Secretary Zinke has used a […]

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is on years-long crusade to sell off Oklahoma’s state parks. It’s a habit that should raise immediate red flags if she takes the helm at Interior, a position which would put her in charge of America’s crown jewels — our national park system.