The Landscape

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How are the national parks holding up against DOGE and Trump’s attacks?
Kate and Aaron talk to Kurt Repanshek, founder and editor of National Parks Traveler, about President Donald Trumps proposed funding cuts to the National Park System as well as how staffing cuts impo
New nature doc frames the Colorado River as an opportunity, not a crisis
Kate and Aaron speak with Len Necefer, CEO & Founder of NativesOutdoors, a native owned outdoor media, apparel and consulting company. You may also know him as the man behind the Sonoran Avalanche Cen
How the White House is making federal permitting less efficient
Kate and Aaron nerd out with John Ruple, public lands professor at the University of Utah and a former member of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) about recent changes to how the
Unpacking Trump’s mining and timber EOs
Kate and Aaron talk to two experts about recent executive orders that negatively affect public lands. Mitch Friedman, founder and executive director of Conservation Northwest, talks about how Trumps
How Elon Musk is trying to dismantle the Interior department
Kate and Aaron are joined by Jimmy Tobias, a public lands reporter and contributor to the Public Domain substack, and Jacob Malcom, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Environmental Manag
How nature makes us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to humanity
This week, we take a break from bad news to talk about what nature does to your brain. Kate and Aaron speak to author Florence Williams about her book, The Nature Fix, which came out in 2017 but is ju
Western voters reject Trump agenda on public lands
Aaron and Kate break down the results of Colorado Colleges 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
Layoffs at Interior are causing chaos and heartbreak
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
Can President Trump even do that? Public lands edition
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 Presi
Trump’s Day One attack on public lands
Kate and Aaron talk through the effects of President Donald Trumps first executive orders on public lands with Drew McConville, a senior fellow on the Conservation Policy team at the Center for Ameri