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The Landscape Center for Western Priorities
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News, interviews, and history with newsmakers and environmental advocates, focused on parks and public lands across the American West. Formerly known as Go West, Young Podcast.
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The problem with Wall Street getting into public lands drilling
Kate and Aaron are joined by Alan Zibel with Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group focused on the influence of big business in government, and Nichole Heil with the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a watchdog group focused on bringing transparency and accountability to the private equity sector, to talk about a report they co-authored. The report, Private Profits, Public Risks, looks into how Wall Street—or private equity—firms are funding new drilling on public land and threatening to leave taxpayers with a massive clean up bill.
News
* What a Federal Government Shutdown Means for National Parks – National Parks Conservation Association
* Barrasso wants Haaland to keep parks open during shutdown – E&E News
* As government shutdown looms, Cox says state plans to keep national parks open – KUTV
* Gov. Katie Hobbs says Grand Canyon to remain open if federal government shuts down – Arizona Republic
* Monument protection sought for Owyhee Canyonlands – East Oregonian
* Joshua Tree National Park expansion gains momentum with Chuckwalla National Monument plan – Desert Sun
* Analysis: Public comments overwhelmingly support BLM Oil and Gas Rule – Center for Western Priorities
* Taking stock of the Biden administration’s oil and gas reforms – Westwise
Credits
Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss
Feedback: podcast@westernpriorities.org
Music: Purple Planet
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Author Ben Goldfarb on the power—and peril—of roads
Aaron and Kate are joined by Ben Goldfarb, an award-winning environmental journalist and author who covers wildlife conservation, marine science, and public lands management, to talk about his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, which is out now from Norton. In Crossings, Goldfarb explores how roads have made our planet perilous to animals, as well as how we can make roads safer for both wildlife and people. Goldfarb’s first book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, won the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and was listed on the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction.
News
* BLM has a plan to tackle booming recreation — at least in theory – High Country News
* Biden Administration to Bar Drilling on Millions of Acres in Alaska – New York Times
* Cottonwood Wash, Bears Ears and the character of canyons – Durango Herald
Credits
Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss
Feedback: podcast@westernpriorities.org
Music: Purple Planet
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Digging into our 2023 Winning the West poll results
Kate and Aaron are joined by pollster Lindsay Vermeyen, senior vice president at Benenson Strategy Group, and Center for Western Priorities Executive Director Jennifer Rokala to dig into the results of our 2023 Winning the West poll. Spoiler alert: Western voters really love public lands, and they want to see them protected. Kate and Aaron also recap some of the great public lands and conservation news that came out in August.
News
* Winning the West 2023 poll results – Center for Western Priorities
* Biden proposes vast new marine sanctuary in partnership with California tribe – NPR
* Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary film – Center for Western Priorities
* August was a great month for public lands – Westwise
Credits
Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss
Feedback: podcast@westernpriorities.org
Music: Purple Planet
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How urban parks improve public health
Aaron and Kate are joined by I Ling Thompson, vice president of strategy and engagement at the Trust for Public Land, to discuss a new report from the Trust called the Power of Parks to Promote Health. The report looks at the myriad ways urban parks improve human and environmental health, as well as how cities and park managers can ensure parks are used to their full potential. Thompson also touches on how new parks are funded and how the construction of new parks can benefit low income communities without displacing them.
News
* I Ling Thompson Selected As Inaugural CEO Of The Foundation For America’s Public Lands – Foundation For America’s Public Lands
* Federal appeals court derails Uinta Basin Railway plan to send billions more gallons of Utah crude through Colorado – Colorado Sun
* Power of Parks to Promote Health – Trust for Public Land
* ParkScore – Trust for Public Land
* Court dismisses challenge to Biden’s restoration of Utah monuments shrunk by Trump – Associated Press
* The Antiquities Act and America’s national monuments: Frequently Asked Questions – Aaron Weiss
Credits
Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss
Feedback: podcast@westernpriorities.org
Music: Purple Planet
Featured image: Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, Utah; Geoff Alexander, Flickr
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Inside the effort to protect the greater Grand Canyon region
In a special Road to 30: Postcards episode, Aaron and Kate talk to two members of the Havasupai Tribe about the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument. The proposed monument would partially surround and help protect the Grand Canyon National Park, as well as the communities that live in and near the canyon, from uranium mining. The monument is being proposed by a large group of tribes called the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition, which includes members of the Havasupai, Hopi, and Hualapai Tribes, as well as the Kaibab Paiute Tribe, the Las Vegas Band of Paiute, the Moapa Band of Paiutes, the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, the Navajo Nation, the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, the Yavapai-Apache Nation, the Pueblo of Zuni, and the Colorado River Indian Tribes. Carletta Tilousi, a former tribal councilwoman who has helped lead the effort to establish the monument, and Stuart Chavez, a former tribal councilman who serves on the Havasupai Anti-Uranium Subcommittee, talk about their involvement in the fight for the monument and how it would help protect their homeland.
News
* White House to agencies: Tally projects’ financial damage to ecosystems – E&E News
* Alexander Skarsgård Explains the Answer to Everything. (It Involves Doing Some Math.) – New York Times
* Map of proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument – Grand Canyon Trust
* Biden expected to create Grand Canyon national monument to block new mining, sources say – Washington Post
* Road to 30: Postcards – Stories from America’s Lands and Water – Center for Western Priorities
Credits
Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss
Feedback: podcast@westernpriorities.org
Music: Purple Planet
Featured image: Grand Canyon National Park, viewed from the South Rim; HarshLight/Flickr
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New oil and gas rule just dropped. What’s in it?
The Bureau of Land Management just proposed a rule that would essentially codify the oil and gas reforms in the Inflation Reduction Act as well as make a few other important changes to the federal leasing program. The proposed rule would fundamentally change the way oil and gas leasing occurs on public lands, putting the federal government in the driver’s seat instead of the oil and gas companies that have driven the process for far too long. Kate and Aaron are joined by Taxpayers for Common Sense Vice President Autumn Hanna and Center for Western Priorities Policy Director Rachael Hamby to talk about it.
News
* Interior Department Takes Steps to Modernize Oil and Gas Leasing on Public Lands, Ensure Fair Return to Taxpayers – Interior Department
* Taking stock of the Biden administration’s oil and gas reforms – Westwise
* Zero Bids in Latest Oil & Gas Lease Sale of 2023 – Taxpayers for Common Sense
* President Biden Designates Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument – White House
Credits
Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss
Feedback: podcast@westernpriorities.org
Music: Purple Planet
Featured image: BLM California/Flickr
Customer Reviews
Informative, aware conservation podcast
The Landscape is an intelligent, to-the-point source for staying abreast of conservation issues and environmental threats in the American West. Aaron and Kate do an excellent job bringing attention to the most critical topics, and distilling complex legal and regulatory issues into understandable concepts.
The best Podcast on contemporary public lands issues.
This Podcast is great for anyone wanting to follow and learn about contemporary public lands issues - about conservation, policy, management, and politics. The interviewers know their stuff and the guests are generally first rate experts. Give it a try - you’ll wind up listening every week. Keep up the great work! HG
Really great show.
I just listened to the interview with John Leshy and felt compelled to leave a rating. This is the intelligent, insightful, and fun content that really helps us move forward. Thanks for all your work.