The Landscape

By Center for Western Priorities

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News, interviews, and history with newsmakers and environmental advocates, focused on parks and public lands across the American West. Produced by the Center for Western Priorities, formerly known as Go West, Young Podcast.

Episode Date
How a private billionaires’ club took over the Crazy Mountains
May 21, 2026
Jennifer Rokala on 11 years fighting for public lands at CWP
May 07, 2026
Borderlands part 2: The fight against a border wall at Big Bend
Apr 30, 2026
Borderlands part 1: The threats to public lands at the border
Apr 28, 2026
The dangerous rush to consolidate America’s wildfire response
Apr 17, 2026
What the off-road community stands to lose on public lands
Apr 02, 2026
America’s 250th anniversary and why history matters in our parks
Mar 19, 2026
Why America’s lesser known national parks matter now more than ever
Mar 12, 2026
2025 was awful for public lands. Is there hope?
Mar 03, 2026
Unpacking the 2026 Conservation in the West Poll
Feb 24, 2026
What gutting the Council on Environmental Quality means for public lands
Feb 13, 2026
Weaponizing the Congressional Review Act against America’s public lands
Feb 06, 2026
Why a New Mexico gun rights leader opposes Trump’s pick to lead the BLM
Jan 23, 2026
Will Maduro’s capture lead to an American oil rift?
Jan 09, 2026
Burnout and bravery: Fighting fire on America’s public lands
Dec 26, 2025
Common waters: Inside the fight for stream access in Colorado
Dec 18, 2025
The dirty truth about oil and gas drilling in New Mexico
Dec 05, 2025
Trump bonding rates could cost taxpayers billions
Nov 21, 2025
Uranium boom or bubble? Exploring the future of uranium mining in the West
Nov 06, 2025
What the shutdown means for public lands w/ Rep. Jared Huffman
Oct 16, 2025
How people across the West are fighting to protect public lands
Sep 25, 2025
Ryan Busse on how billionaires are locking up land in Montana
Sep 11, 2025
LIVE in Grand Junction: Public land advocates take Trump attacks personally
Aug 28, 2025
LIVE: Utah conservation all-stars on how to Keep Parks Public
Aug 22, 2025
LIVE: Colorado’s public lands are under attack. Keep Parks Public tour highlights threats and ways to fight back
Aug 14, 2025
What’s next for Utah after SCOTUS snub and Mike Lee flame out?
Aug 08, 2025
The strange and mysterious history of the Joshua tree
Jul 24, 2025
Former Forest Service leader on how Trump is hollowing out the agency
Jul 11, 2025
How do we protect BLM lands? We tell their stories
Jun 27, 2025
Mining companies are knocking at the doors of our national parks
Jun 18, 2025
The DOJ just told Trump he can eliminate monuments. Now what?
Jun 13, 2025
Tracy Stone-Manning on the biggest threats to public lands right now
May 22, 2025
How are the national parks holding up against DOGE and Trump’s attacks?
May 13, 2025
New nature doc frames the Colorado River as an opportunity, not a crisis
May 02, 2025
How the White House is making federal permitting less efficient
Apr 17, 2025
Unpacking Trump’s mining and timber EOs
Apr 03, 2025
How Elon Musk is trying to dismantle the Interior department
Mar 26, 2025
How nature makes us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to humanity
Mar 13, 2025
Western voters reject Trump agenda on public lands
Feb 27, 2025
Layoffs at Interior are causing chaos and heartbreak
Feb 20, 2025
Can President Trump even do that? Public lands edition
Jan 31, 2025
Trump’s Day One attack on public lands
Jan 21, 2025
Looking back on Biden’s conservation record
Jan 17, 2025
What Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda means for public lands
Jan 14, 2025
This company is trying to drain an aquifer in the Mojave Desert
Dec 23, 2024
Special episode: Inside the Dolores River Canyons
Dec 13, 2024
What the results of the election mean for public lands
Nov 25, 2024
Choo! Choo! NEPA heads to the Supreme Court disguised as an oil train
Nov 15, 2024
What Biden can do for America’s forests before he leaves office
Oct 31, 2024
How Utah’s land grab lawsuit could harm hunting in the West
Oct 24, 2024
How climate, crowds, and colonialism are complicating the concept of Wilderness
Oct 10, 2024
Meet the proposed Kw’tsán National Monument—a 390,000 acre landscape in the California desert
Sep 26, 2024
From villain to hero: the Devil’s Hole pupfish could save this desert community
Sep 13, 2024
How nuts is Utah’s land grab lawsuit? We ask law professor John Leshy
Aug 29, 2024
Episode 200! (Behind the scenes at CWP)
Aug 23, 2024
The future of Lake Powell with Zak Podmore
Jul 31, 2024
Hitting the trail with Disabled Hikers founder Syren Nagakyrie
Jul 17, 2024
How an Instagram ‘joke’ turned into an outdoor LGBTQ community
Jun 28, 2024
Reporter Murphy Woodhouse on the future of wildfire season
Jun 21, 2024
Protecting the Mimbres Peaks in Southern New Mexico
Jun 05, 2024
A huge step forward for public lands in Alaska
May 23, 2024
Behind the scenes of the Bears Ears draft management plan
May 10, 2024
Why April was a huge month for public lands
Apr 23, 2024
Swimming upstream with Trout Unlimited
Apr 12, 2024
Talking public lands extremism with Betsy Gaines Quammen
Mar 28, 2024
Will lithium mining dry up the West?
Mar 13, 2024
What Western voters want in 2024
Feb 28, 2024
More solar on public lands? Digging into BLM’s plan
Feb 22, 2024
Uranium mining returns to the Colorado Plateau
Feb 08, 2024
Inside the Foundation for America’s Public Lands
Jan 25, 2024
The private land piece of the 30×30 puzzle
Jan 12, 2024
The year in public lands
Dec 27, 2023
Behind the headlines: old growth logging ban
Dec 21, 2023
Sins of the shovel: How archaeology evolved from pot hunting to science
Dec 06, 2023
How a Wyoming land use plan ended up in a misinformation war
Nov 17, 2023
Balancing trails, wilderness, and ATV’s in Moab’s backcountry
Nov 02, 2023
Opening up the Conservation Toolbox to protect public lands
Oct 25, 2023
Protecting the wild, vast Owyhee Canyonlands
Oct 11, 2023
The problem with Wall Street getting into public lands drilling
Sep 26, 2023
Author Ben Goldfarb on the power—and peril—of roads
Sep 12, 2023
Digging into our 2023 Winning the West poll results
Aug 28, 2023
How urban parks improve public health
Aug 22, 2023
Inside the effort to protect the greater Grand Canyon region
Aug 04, 2023
New oil and gas rule just dropped. What’s in it?
Jul 28, 2023
How the Farm Bill promotes private land conservation
Jul 13, 2023
What’s going on with old growth forests?
Jun 30, 2023
A BLM veteran weighs in on the agency’s proposed conservation leasing rule
Jun 13, 2023
Stewart Udall and the politics of beauty
Jun 07, 2023
Can renewable energy and conservation coexist?
May 24, 2023
Why you should care about the Rio Grande River
May 11, 2023
A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mining bill
May 02, 2023
What’s really holding up renewable energy transmission construction
Apr 19, 2023
Making conservation more inclusive
Apr 06, 2023
Biden designates two new national monuments
Mar 21, 2023
The tangled fates of Arizona and Arabia
Mar 16, 2023
What Western voters think about conservation
Mar 02, 2023
What’s going on with the Colorado River?
Feb 17, 2023
Why we need mining reform on public lands
Feb 10, 2023
Are we about to see a mining boom for EV minerals in the West?
Jan 26, 2023
Fighting a plan to mine oil in Utah using billions of gallons of Colorado River water
Jan 05, 2023