Match My Mountains
In Match My Mountains, Luke Nathan Phillips follows current controversies in public lands politics, advocates for policy protecting and stewarding those lands, and explores the history of conservation and deeper political history beyond it.
Featuring journalists, activists, historians, former rangers, and colorful adventurers who know their stuff, the show will paint the American wilderness and American history in all their splendid colors, and show just why our forests and battlefields and mountains matter, and deserve to be protected—they literally forge our soul.
Episodes
6 episodes
The Public Lands Radical
There's a very simple, straightforward idea of the public land system everyone who thinks of themselves as a conservationist should hold themselves too: keep it staffed, funded, protected, managed, and whole. Unfortunately, my fellow Republican...
The Oikophilic Eco-Right with Andrew Sandstrom
When two or three conservatives are gathered together, there too is a conversation about philosophy with them. Andrew Sandstrom and I are no different. Beyond philosophical bases for conservation, we talk about the pendulum of national politics...
Ranger Walt Wants YOU for the NPS
Former Chief Ranger of the National Park Service Walt Dabney spent a long career pulling climbers off of Mount Rainier, counting alligators around the Everglades, keeping the gates open in Southern Utah, and otherwise having great adventures in...
America is a National Forest
Here is a long and winding and obscure extended metaphor of the American identity as being, more than anything else, the the collaboration and compromise of multiple many things for the common good in the long term-- just like our wonderful Nat...
How to call BS with Wes Siler
National Parks and public lands are an issue everybody cares about, after they care about everything else— and most people don’t really understand the dynamics of public land policy. This means it’s quite common for very well-intentioned suppor...
Match My Mountains Episode 1: An Annoyingly Brief History of Conservation in America
Everybody knows about the two great American traditions of cOnSeRvATiOn aNd PrEsErVaTiOn (and if you don't, we're exploring it here!) Not many people look backward beyond John Muir and Gifford Pinchot. We all assume American conservation starte...