The Landscape

The Landscape


Latest Episodes

How are the national parks holding up against DOGE and Trump’s attacks?
May 13, 2025

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
May 02, 2025

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
April 17, 2025

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
April 03, 2025

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
March 26, 2025

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
March 13, 2025

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
February 27, 2025

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
February 20, 2025

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
January 30, 2025

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
January 21, 2025

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