The Landscape

The Landscape


Latest Episodes

Ryan Busse on how billionaires are locking up land in Montana
September 11, 2025

Kate and Aaron talk to former Montana gubernatorial candidate, public lands hunter, and Substack author Ryan Busse about how billionaires are cutting off access to the outdoors in Montana and a whole

LIVE in Grand Junction: Public land advocates take Trump attacks personally
August 28, 2025

Kate hosts a live episode in Grand Junction on CWPs Keep Parks Public tour! Guests discuss the importance of keeping our parks and monuments staffed and funded. Guests: Ken Mabery, former superintend

LIVE: Utah conservation all-stars on how to Keep Parks Public
August 22, 2025

Kate hosts a live episode in Salt Lake City on CWPs Keep Parks Public tour! Guests: Erika Pollard, National Parks Conservation Association; Davina Smith, Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and Grand S

LIVE: Colorado’s public lands are under attack. Keep Parks Public tour highlights threats and ways to fight back
August 14, 2025

Aaron hosts a live episode in Denver, kicking off CWPs Keep Parks Public tour. Scott Fitzwilliams, former supervisor of the White River National Forest in Colorado, Kelly Nordini, CEO of Conservation

What’s next for Utah after SCOTUS snub and Mike Lee flame out?
August 08, 2025

What the heck is Utah up to now that its land grab lawsuit has been snubbed by the Supreme Court and Senator Mike Lee has made public land sell-off untouchable in Congress? Kate and Aaron put that qu

The strange and mysterious history of the Joshua tree
July 24, 2025

Kate and Aaron interview author Barret Baumgart about his new book Yuck: The Birth and Death of the Weird and Wondrous Joshua Tree. Baumgart became obsessed with Joshua trees during the pandemic and e

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