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Latest Episodes

What’s really holding up renewable energy transmission construction
April 19, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by clean energy consultant Rob Gramlich, founder and president of Grid Strategies LLC, to talk about the need to ramp up renewable transmission capacity in the U.S. Gramlich

Making conservation more inclusive
April 06, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by the co-chairs of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition, a new group that came together to ensure conservation benefits marginalized and overly burdened communities.

Biden designates two new national monuments
March 21, 2023

The announcement of two new national monuments formed the centerpiece of the White House Conservation in Action Summit on March 21, 2023. Biden designated Avi Kwa Ame and Castner Range national monume

The tangled fates of Arizona and Arabia
March 16, 2023

Aaron and Kate are joined by author and professor Natalie Koch, whose new bookArid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabiaexplores the ways in which Arizona and Saudi Arabia have worked to

What Western voters think about conservation
March 02, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by pollsters Lori Weigel and Dave Metz to talk about the most interesting and important statistics from the recently released 2023 Colorado College State of the Rockies Conse

What’s going on with the Colorado River?
February 17, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by water scientist Brad Udall to talk about the current state of the Colorado River. Water levels are dropping and something has to give or the rivers main reservoirsLake P

Why we need mining reform on public lands
February 10, 2023

Aaron and Kate are joined by two mining reform experts to talk about the need to update our century-old mining laws and regulations in order to protect vulnerable communities and public lands as inter

Are we about to see a mining boom for EV minerals in the West?
January 26, 2023

Mining expert Ian Lange joins Kate and Aaron to talk about critical minerals and mining in the West. Lange directs the mineral and energy economics program at the Colorado School of Mines and is an ex

Fighting a plan to mine oil in Utah using billions of gallons of Colorado River water
January 05, 2023

On this episode of The Landscape, Kate and Aaron are joined by Grand Canyon Trust staff attorney Michael Toll to discuss a plan to mine hundreds of thousands of barrels of waxy crude oil in Utah near

The past year in public lands
December 22, 2022

On this episode of The Landscape, Center for Western Priorities Executive Director Jennifer Rokala and CWP Director of Campaigns and Special Projects Lauren Bogard join Aaron and Kate to go over the p