Kate and Aaron are joined by James Kenna, a 40-year Interior Department veteran who wore a number of hats over his decades of public service, including a stint as the California state director at Bureau of Land Management. That gave him a front row seat to land management decisions that would shape America’s energy future. Now he’s weighing in on one of the most important proposals to come from the Biden administration: the public lands rule that would put conservation on equal footing with mining, drilling, grazing, and other uses of federal lands.

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• Protest at Chaco Canyon deters event to celebrate new federal oil and gas leasing ban – Source NM
  
  
• All Pueblo Council of Governors statement on events at Chaco – All Pueblo Council of Governors
  
  
• Legislative Hearing on H.R. 3397 – House Natural Resources Committee
  
  
• Approval for Idaho phosphate mine reversed after judge rules US didn’t assess prairie bird impact – Associated Press
  

Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

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Music: Purple Planet

Featured image: Pecos River drainage, Bureau of Land Management/Flickr

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