The Landscape

The Landscape


Latest Episodes

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 CWP’s Keep Parks Public tour. Scott Fitzwilliams, former supervisor of the White River National Forest in Colorado, Kelly Nordini, CEO of Conservation Colorado, and Kara Matsumoto, public lands direc

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 question to John Ruple, a Professor of Law and Stegner Ce

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

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