Going back to the Clinton administration, Democrats have sought to bolster their environmental credentials by creating large national monuments in the West. This is great. The problem though is that.
This kind of thing has flown completely under the radar in our broader discussions because basically the political class doesn't care about public lands and neither does anyone who lives.
When we look at what has happened to our nation, we are not spending enough time on how so much of this has originated in the rural West. I'm looking.
For the latest LGM podcast, I spoke with Adam Sowards of the University of Idaho about his new book, Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal.
This should have happened on January 21, but I am glad it is happening anyway. Biden is restoring the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah,.
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of our public lands, to the point that the most popular, especially the national parks, are totally overwhelmed. It's becoming.
I was so excited yesterday. I always wanted a post that so few LGM readers cared about that it would get 0 comments and the podcast on the public lands.
I was very happy to speak to Adam Sowards, historian of the public lands at the University of Idaho, about the state of public lands in 2021. We talked about.
