John Leshy on the history and future of public lands

Companies in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming spilled over 7 million gallons of contaminated liquids and crude oil and wasted billions of cubic feet of methane DENVER—Each year, the Center for Western Priorities analyzes oil and gas spills data collected by Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming—the West’s top oil and gas-producing states. This year’s report found […]

A group of Tribal leaders and California lawmakers are jointly calling on President Joe Biden to create three new national monuments in California. The proposed Sáttítla, Chuckwalla, and Kw’tsán national monuments would protect more than 1 million acres of sacred Tribal lands. The Chuckwalla National Monument would preserve over 620,000 acres of public lands in Riverside and Imperial counties, just south of Joshua Tree […]

The Biden administration announced it will protect 28 million acres in Alaska from mining and oil and gas development. The move reverses a decision made in the waning days of the Trump administration to open millions of acres to extractive activities with the potential to harm the environment as well as cultural and subsistence resources for Alaska Native […]

In this episode of Go West, Young Podcast, a conversation with scientist Michelle Elise Spicer, who studies the effects of deer overpopulation and logging on forest biodiversity. Spicer works out of Dr. Walter Carson’s lab at the University of Pittsburgh. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Also mentioned in this episode: The Zinke Doctrine

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“