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 administration. Chris talks about how an influx of federal funding for ecosystem restoration is supercharging the group’s work reconnecting streams and rivers, as well as how his group is engaging in legislative mining reform.

• Biden administration bars drilling in Colorado’s Thompson Divide landscape – The Hill
  
• Feds announce final renewable energy rule for public lands – NM Political Report
  
• Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on federal lands under new Biden administration rule – Associated Press
  
• U.S. clamps down on oil and gas firms releasing potent greenhouse gas – Washington Post
  

Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

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Music: Purple Planet

Featured image: Salmon using a fish ladder; Wikimedia Commons

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