The story of Valle de Oro, the Southwest’s first urban wildlife refuge

After his attempts to sell off national public lands failed earlier this year, U.S. Senator Mike Lee of Utah is trying a new approach—leveraging concerns over illegal immigration to disintegrate national public lands. As journalist Wes Siler writes in his newsletter, Lee continues to look for any excuse to push the federal government to get rid […]

“President Biden has secured his legacy as one of America’s great conservation presidents.”

This is an automatically generated transcript. Please excuse spelling and grammar errors.  Aaron: Welcome to The Landscape. This is your show about America’s Parks and Public Lands. I’m Erin Weiss with the Center For Western Priorities in Denver. Kate: And I’m Kate Gretzinger in Salt Lake City. Today, we’re talking to Zac Podmore about his […]

How we can conserve wildlife corridors to safeguard the West’s wildlif The West has long been lionized for its wide open spaces, vast rangelands, and rugged forests. But growing development is threatening that iconic Western vision. We lose a football field of natural land every two and half minutes to highways, subdivisions, and oil and gas well […]

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“