The Landscape
News, interviews, and history with newsmakers and environmental advocates, focused on parks and public lands across the American West. Produced by the Center for Western Priorities, formerly known as Go West, Young Podcast.
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LIVE from Tucson: Arizona’s Public Lands and the Border Wall (opens the original)
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Recorded live at Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre in Tucson as part of CWP’s Keep Parks Public campaign, Aaron interviews four experts about the current state of Arizona’s public lands: Matthew Nelson with the Arizona Trail Association, Russ McSpadden with the Center for Biological Diversity, Emily Burns with Sky Island Alliance, and Amy Juan from the Tohono O’odham Nation. We discuss the impacts of border wall construction on wildlife corridors and Indigenous sites, along with staffing and funding c
Introducing: On Common Ground, a new podcast about the fight to maintain our public lands (opens the original)
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Kate and Aaron run through the weekly news, including the Trump administration’s plans to repeal the Roadless Rule and upend the Forest Service’s travel management planning process. Then, we play the first episode of On Common Ground: An American Inheritance, a new podcast from Eleven Dollar Bill studios, for you. In this first episode, host Bill Hedden traces how the fight we were allowed to win concealed the one we lost. Bill has spent half a century defending the public lands in southeastern
Are America’s public lands entering a new Gilded Age? (opens the original)
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Kate and Aaron are joined by Professor John Leshy, one of the nation’s top scholars of public lands law, to discuss a new essay of his that argues America’s public lands are entering a new Gilded Age, complete with robber barons, corruption, and deregulation. We also talk about a new exposé revealing Doug Burgum to be a really bad boss who’s breaking the law, and about Border Patrol breaking ground inside Big Bend National Park. News Inside Doug Burgum’s rocky tenure at Interior – POLITICO “Warf
LIVE from Santa Fe: Defending New Mexico’s public lands (opens the original)
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Recorded live at Nuckolls Brewing in Santa Fe as part of CWP’s Keep Parks Public campaign , Kate interviews four experts about the current stakes for New Mexico’s public lands. Charlotte Overby (Conservation Lands Foundation), Keegan King (Native Land Institute), Andrew Black (National Wildlife Federation/Earthkeepers 360), and Elaine Leslie (Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks) discuss the importance of defending New Mexico’s land, water, and wildlife from the current threats coming o
Wild women with author Heather Hansman (opens the original)
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Kate and Aaron talk to Heather Hansman about her new book, Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America’s Love for the Wild . Plus, mining companies are staking an unprecedented number of claims in New Mexico. And we’re going on tour ! Come see us in Santa Fe and Tucson. News By the #s: More mining claims filed in New Mexico in last 4 years than previous century – Source NM Resources Keep Parks Public Tour — RSVP to Santa Fe and Tucson! Buy Fierce Country W atch this episo
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