The Landscape

The Landscape


Latest Episodes

Balancing trails, wilderness, and ATV’s in Moab’s backcountry
November 02, 2023

Aaron and Kate are joined by Laura Peterson, staff attorney with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, to talk about the Bureau of Land Managements recently finalized Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges T

Opening up the Conservation Toolbox to protect public lands
October 25, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by three other members of the Center for Western Priorities for this episode focused on a new report from CWP. The Conservation Toolbox report is a directory of the major lan

Protecting the wild, vast Owyhee Canyonlands
October 11, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by Tim Davis, founder and executive director of Friends of the Owyhee, and Karly Foster, campaign manager at the Oregon Natural Desert Association, to talk about how we can b

The problem with Wall Street getting into public lands drilling
September 26, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by Alan Zibel with Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group focused on the influence of big business in government, and Nichole Heil with the Private Equity Stakeholder Proj

Author Ben Goldfarb on the power—and peril—of roads
September 12, 2023

Aaron and Kate are joined by Ben Goldfarb, an award-winning environmental journalist and author who covers wildlife conservation, marine science, and public lands management, to talk about his new boo

Digging into our 2023 Winning the West poll results
August 28, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by pollster Lindsay Vermeyen, senior vice president at Benenson Strategy Group, and Center for Western Priorities Executive Director Jennifer Rokala to dig into the results o

How urban parks improve public health
August 22, 2023

Aaron and Kate are joined by I Ling Thompson, vice president of strategy and engagement at the Trust for Public Land, to discuss a new report from the Trust called the Power of Parks to Promote Health

Inside the effort to protect the greater Grand Canyon region
August 04, 2023

In a special Road to 30: Postcards episode, Aaron and Kate talk to two members of the Havasupai Tribe about the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo Itah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument. The proposed monumen

New oil and gas rule just dropped. What’s in it?
July 28, 2023

The Bureau of Land Management just proposed a rule that would essentially codify the oil and gas reforms in the Inflation Reduction Act as well as make a few other important changes to the federal lea

How the Farm Bill promotes private land conservation
July 13, 2023

Kate and Aaron are joined by Lori Faeth, senior director of government relations at the Land Trust Alliance, to discuss the Farm Bill and private land conservation. The Farm Bill conservation programs