The Landscape

The Landscape


Latest Episodes

Why April was a huge month for public lands
April 23, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by the Wilderness Societys Michael Carroll and Justin Meuse to talk through a handful of federal regulations, or rules, that were finalized in late March and April. These ru

Swimming upstream with Trout Unlimited
April 12, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by Trout Unlimited CEO Chris Wood, who has been with TU for twenty years, following a career as chief policy director at the U.S. Forest Service during the Clinton administra

Talking public lands extremism with Betsy Gaines Quammen
March 28, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by author Betsy Gaines Quammen to talk about public lands and extremism. Betsy has written two books about extremism in the West. Her first, American Zion, looks at the conne

Will lithium mining dry up the West?
March 12, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by three members of the reporting team behind, Lithium Liabilities, a groundbreaking investigation into how lithium mining could affect the Wests water supply. Emma Peterson

What Western voters want in 2024
February 28, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by pollsters Lori Weigel and Dave Metz to discuss the 14th Annual Colorado College State of the Rockies Project Conservation in the West poll. The poll surveys voters in Wyom

More solar on public lands? Digging into BLM’s plan
February 22, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by Justin Meuse, Director of Government Relations for Climate and Energy at the Wilderness Society, to talk about a proposal from the Bureau of Land Management to prioritize

Uranium mining returns to the Colorado Plateau
February 08, 2024

Driven by high uranium prices, domestic uranium mining has resumed at three locations in the U.S. after an eight-year hiatus. Kate and Aaron are joined by Amber Reimondo, Energy Director at the Grand

Inside the Foundation for America’s Public Lands
January 25, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by I Ling Thompson, CEO of The Foundation for Americas Public Lands. The Foundation is the official charitable partner of the Bureau of Land Management. Its job is to engage

The private land piece of the 30×30 puzzle
January 12, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by Tony Caligiuri, president and CEO of Colorado Open Lands, a nonprofit land trust that exists to protect Colorados land and water resources. Colorado Open Lands works prim

The year in public lands
December 27, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by Center for Western Priorities Executive Director Jennifer Rokala for a year-end public lands news roundup and a look ahead at 2024. Overall, 2023 was a great year for publ