LIVE: Utah conservation all-stars on how to Keep Parks Public

On July 1, President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will visit Medora, North Dakota for the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, a privately funded $450 million museum built on 93 acres near the entrance to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Trump is the most anti-conservation president in history, and his administration is attempting to hide that fact by […]

Leaders from Utah conservation groups and the Center for Western Priorities called on the Trump administration, Congress, and Utah politicians to stop the attacks and attempts to defund and privatize America’s parks and public lands. At a live taping of The Landscape podcast, the Keep Parks Public tour highlighted the ongoing threats to Utah’s public lands. In Utah, federal staffing and […]

Aaron hosts a live episode in Denver, kicking off CWP’s Keep Parks Public tour. Scott Fitzwilliams, former supervisor of the White River National Forest in Colorado, Kelly Nordini, CEO of Conservation Colorado, and Kara Matsumoto, public lands director at the Conservation Lands Foundation, join us to discuss threats to Colorado’s public lands posed by the […]

New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard signed an executive order last week to prohibit new oil and natural gas leasing for the next 20 years on state land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a World Heritage Site that is sacred to Native Americans. Garcia Richard’s latest order extends a temporary moratorium that she signed when she took office […]

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“