Courtney Lyons-Garcia, Executive Director of the Public Lands Foundation, discusses the work of the PLF and their ongoing efforts to steward and advocate for Bureau of land Management lands, waterways, and communities. Credit and thanks to Justin Meissen for the use of photo, copyright: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Public Lands Podcast

Episode 109: August 9: Keeping Public Lands in Public Hands, the Public Lands Foundation

A conversation with Clement Loo, Host of the Just Sustainability Podcast, concerning public land policies and changing cultural perspectives on land.

Episode 112: October 1: A Conversation with Clement Loo

Environmental Journalist Heather Hansman discusses the reclamation of mines and other lands for the creation of parks and trails as well as the work and life of an environmental journalist.

Episode 111: September 22: Environmental Journalist Heather Hansman

An interview with Stephen Capra, Executive Director of Footloose Montana. Capra discusses conservation issues surrounding the trapping of wildlife in Montana as well as the increasing numbers of wolves hunted each year in the state. Photo taken by Gary Kramer and used under Creative Commons license.

Episode 110: August 31: Trapping Wildlife, Hunting Wolves on Montana's Public Lands

A discussion with Trish Riley, Founding Director of the Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival in Gainesville, Florida. Trish explains the important and growing roles of film, festivals, and the arts in environmental stewardship.

Episode 108: July 30: Cinema Verde Film Festival

Today we talk with Abby Wines, Spokesperson for Death Valley National Park, about the recent heat waves and what can be learned from Death Valley when facing a future of increasingly extreme weather. 

Episode 107: July 23, 2001: Death Valley Nation Park and Climate Extremes

An interview with Chris Havel, Associate Director of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. After Portland hit 116 degrees on Monday, June 28, and a “heat dome” hovered over the Pacific Northwest, what did this weather event portend for Oregon's state parks and what does it portend for the future?

Episode 106: July 6: The Pacific Northwest "Heat Dome" Impacts Oregon State Parks

Patrick Kelly explores the Newton Horace Winchell Trail along the Mississippi River Gorge

Episode 105: May 2, 2021: Newton Horace Winchell Trail in the Mississippi River Gorge

Sean Quartz interviews Blair Libby. Libby has helped facilitate collaboration between Forest Managers belonging to the National Forest Service, Salish, Kootanai, and Pend d’Oreille tribes.

Episode 104: April 22, 2021: Indigenous Knowledge and Public Lands

Nicole Binder covers the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood of Raingardens project in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and interviews the Executive Director of Metro Blooms, Becky Rice

Episode 103: March 21, 2021: A Neighborhood of Raingardens

Dalicia Davis speaks to environmental justice organizer and teacher, Louis Alemayehu. Alemayehu teaches environmental sustainability at the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs in Minneapolis Minnesota and is a community organizer with Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota (EJAM).

Episode 102: March 14, 2021: Environmental Justice: Organizing and Public Pedagogy

This week we visit Milltown State Park and the Four Dances Recreation Area in Montana as well as the Lower Paddock Trail in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It is a hopeful story of confluence, conservation, and restoration told at and across each of these beautiful parks and preserves. Photography and original sound produced on site. Additional sound files provided by the following Freesound contributors: sandyrb, ryanconway, AlanCat, Andune, fabianofa, waxsocks, InspectorJ Bansemer, Nivatius, and bevibeldesign.

Episode 101: March 7, 2021: Confluence and Restoration at Three Parks in Big Sky Country of Montana and North Dakota

An interview with Tim Morton about his book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, hosted by the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Minnesota.

Episode 100: February 26, 2021: An Interview with Tim Morton

Grace Augustin interviews wildlife photographer, Ben Olson.

Episode 99: February 21, 2021: Wildlife Photography

Carynn Jo Randolph explores discrimination against LGBTQ communities, equity, access, and inclusion in outdoor recreation

February 14: LGBTQ Equity and Inclusion in Outdoor Recreation

A weekly podcast about public lands and waterways, mainly in the United States and North America, covering current developments and featuring the insights of rangers, scientists, and others working at our public land sites.

Episode 109: August 9: Keeping Public Lands in Public Hands,...