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.
Match My Mountains
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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 supporters to completely lose their minds over comparatively unimportant things— most recently, the bad-but-not-existential restructuring of the U.S. Forest Service. But how can your average bear tell the difference between a nothingburger and a giant whirling black hole of doom? Certified veteran take-no-prisoners wilderness warrior Wes Siler joins us to suss out some helpful hints and rules of thumb. And with the big budget bills coming up this summer and all the Wile E. Coyote land grab tricks the rustlers are sure to sneak into them, it’s important the public lands movement direct the massive public freakouts to the things that matter most. We could’ve saved the Boundary Waters…
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