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 Trump’s executive order aimed at increasing logging in national forests squares with existing law and forest management plans, while Rachael Hamby, policy director at the Center for Western Priorities, covers Trump’s recent order seeking to ramp up mining on public lands.

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• Republicans weigh sales of public land in reconciliation – E&E News
  
• Anti-public lands bills take hits in Legislature – Missoula Current
  

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Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

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