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Latest Episodes

What Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda means for public lands
January 13, 2025

Kate and Aaron are joined by Alan Zibel, a research director at Public Citizen who focuses on energy and environmental issues. He breaks down what Donald Trump and the incoming Congresss so-called e

This company is trying to drain an aquifer in the Mojave Desert
December 23, 2024

Kate and Aaron talk to Chris Clarke, host of the 90 Miles from Needles podcast, about the Cadiz pipeline project, a water mining project that poses a huge threat to the Mojave Desert. This project has

Special episode: Inside the Dolores River Canyons
December 13, 2024

In this special episode of The Landscape, Kate visits the Dolores River Canyon Country in southwest Colorado, along with CWPs Lauren Bogard and Sterling Homard, to meet with folks who support protect

What the results of the election mean for public lands
November 25, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by CWP Executive Director, Jennifer Rokala, and Curtis Hubbard, a political consultant based in Colorado, to break down the what the results of the 2024 election mean for pub

Choo! Choo! NEPA heads to the Supreme Court disguised as an oil train
November 14, 2024

Kate and Aaron talk to Sanjay Narayan, managing attorney of the Sierra Clubs Environmental Law Program, about a lawsuit over the proposed Uinta Basin oil train that could have some major implications

What Biden can do for America’s forests before he leaves office
October 31, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by Dr. Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage, a project of the Earth Island Institute. Dr. DellaSala came on The Landscape twice last year to talk about the Bi

How Utah’s land grab lawsuit could harm hunting in the West
October 24, 2024

Kate and Aaron are joined by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers CEO Patrick Berry to talk about why Utahs lawsuit seeking control of over 18 million acres of national public land in the state would be ter

How climate, crowds, and colonialism are complicating the concept of Wilderness
October 10, 2024

Kate and guest host Sterling are joined by journalist and producer Marissa Ortega-Welch to talk about her new podcast series, How Wild, which was recently released by KALW and distributed by NPR. The

Meet the proposed Kw’tsán National Monument—a 390,000 acre landscape in the California desert
September 26, 2024

Aaron and Kate are joined by members of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe to talk about the proposed Kwtsn National Monument in southern California. This is part of our Road to 30 postcards series,

From villain to hero: the Devil’s Hole pupfish could save this desert community
September 13, 2024

Kate and Aaron talk to Inside Climate News reporter Wyatt Myskow about an incredible story he wrote about whats unfolding in Nevadas Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, where the endangered Devil