The Landscape

Feb 27 2025 100 ep. 37 mins 55
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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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Western voters reject Trump agenda on public lands

Feb 27 2025 38 mins  
Aaron and Kate break down the results of Colorado College’s annual State of the Rockies Conservation in the West poll with pollsters Lori Weigell and Dave Metz. The poll found that voters in the West support preserving and protecting public lands more than ever before in the poll’s 15-year history. That’s right—just as President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are

Layoffs at Interior are causing chaos and heartbreak

Feb 20 2025 30 mins  
Kate and Aaron are joined by Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and Mitch Flanigan, a former ranger at Denali National Park, to talk about recent firings across Interior department agencies, including the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Managment, as well as at the U.S. Forest Service. Prior to joining PEER, Tim was

Can President Trump even do that? Public lands edition

Jan 30 2025 45 mins  
Aaron and Kate are joined by Mark Squillace, natural resources law professor at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Squillace provided legal counsel to the Interior Department under President Bill Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, and he’s a two-time veteran of this podcast. Today, we discuss the legality of President Trump’s executive orders on

Trump’s Day One attack on public lands

Jan 21 2025 23 mins  
Kate and Aaron talk through the effects of President Donald Trump’s first executive orders on public lands with Drew McConville, a senior fellow on the Conservation Policy team at the Center for American Progress. His research is focused on energy, public lands, and Alaska. News * Trump Signs Orders to Promote Fossil Fuels and End Climate Policies – New York Times * EPA ta

Looking back on Biden’s conservation record

Jan 17 2025 37 mins  
Kate and Aaron talk to CWP colleagues Lauren Bogard and Sterling Homard about our recent report on President Joe Biden’s final year on public lands, which looks at the president’s conservation achievements over the past year in the context of his full presidential term. They also recap Trump Interior Secretary Nominee Doug Burgum’s Senate confirmation hearing and discuss

What Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda means for public lands

Jan 13 2025 35 mins  
Kate and Aaron are joined by Alan Zibel, a research director at Public Citizen who focuses on energy and environmental issues. He breaks down what Donald Trump and the incoming Congress’s so-called “energy dominance” agenda could mean for public lands—given that the U.S. is already the world’s top exporter of natural gas (otherwise known as methane). News *

This company is trying to drain an aquifer in the Mojave Desert

Dec 23 2024 32 mins  
Kate and Aaron talk to Chris Clarke, host of the 90 Miles from Needles podcast, about the Cadiz pipeline project, a water mining project that poses a huge threat to the Mojave Desert. This project has been around in some form or another for over four decades and the latest iteration is especially insidious. News * Stopping Cadiz is good for people, the environment and our water fu

Special episode: Inside the Dolores River Canyons

Dec 13 2024 24 mins  
In this special episode of The Landscape, Kate visits the Dolores River Canyon Country in southwest Colorado, along with CWP’s Lauren Bogard and Sterling Homard, to meet with folks who support protecting this special region. The Dolores River’s riparian zone contains the largest and most biodiverse stretch of unprotected public lands in Colorado. Advocates are currently

What the results of the election mean for public lands

Nov 25 2024 34 mins  
Kate and Aaron are joined by CWP Executive Director, Jennifer Rokala, and Curtis Hubbard, a political consultant based in Colorado, to break down the what the results of the 2024 election mean for public lands. News * With Ready Orders and an Energy Czar, Trump Plots Pivot to Fossil Fuels – New York Times * Trump gave Interior nominee one directive for a half-billion acres o

Choo! Choo! NEPA heads to the Supreme Court disguised as an oil train

Nov 14 2024 36 mins  
Kate and Aaron talk to Sanjay Narayan, managing attorney of the Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program, about a lawsuit over the proposed Uinta Basin oil train that could have some major implications for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The case is set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in December. News * With Ready Orders and an Energy Czar, Trump Plots Pivot