The Landscape

The Landscape


Latest Episodes

Former Forest Service leader on how Trump is hollowing out the agency
July 11, 2025

Kate and Aaron talk to Steve Ellis, a 38-year veteran of both the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and current chair of the National Association of Forest Service Retirees, about what

How do we protect BLM lands? We tell their stories
June 27, 2025

Kate and Aaron talk to writer, photographer, and adventurer Josh Jackson about his new book, The Enduring Wild, which beautifully captures the variety and vastness of Californias public landswith a

Mining companies are knocking at the doors of our national parks
June 18, 2025

Kate and Aaron talk to experts at the National Parks Conservation Association about illegal mining inside of Mojave National Preserve and a recent uptick in mining claims on public lands, including th

The DOJ just told Trump he can eliminate monuments. Now what?
June 13, 2025

Trumps Department of Justice just released an opinion stating that the Antiquities Act gives presidents the power to shrink or eliminate national monuments at will.But what does that mean, for examp

Tracy Stone-Manning on the biggest threats to public lands right now
May 22, 2025

Kate and Aaron talk to Tracy Stone-Manning, former director of the Bureau of Land Management and current president of the Wilderness Society. Tracy tells us what it was like to inherit an agency that

How are the national parks holding up against DOGE and Trump’s attacks?
May 13, 2025

Kate and Aaron talk to Kurt Repanshek, founder and editor of National Parks Traveler, about President Donald Trumps proposed funding cuts to the National Park System as well as how staffing cuts impo

New nature doc frames the Colorado River as an opportunity, not a crisis
May 02, 2025

Kate and Aaron speak with Len Necefer, CEO & Founder of NativesOutdoors, a native owned outdoor media, apparel and consulting company. You may also know him as the man behind the Sonoran Avalanche Cen

How the White House is making federal permitting less efficient
April 17, 2025

Kate and Aaron nerd out with John Ruple, public lands professor at the University of Utah and a former member of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) about recent changes to how the

Unpacking Trump’s mining and timber EOs
April 03, 2025

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 Trumps

How Elon Musk is trying to dismantle the Interior department
March 26, 2025

Kate and Aaron are joined by Jimmy Tobias, a public lands reporter and contributor to the Public Domain substack, and Jacob Malcom, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Environmental Manag