Jaime Loucky, CEO of Washington Trails Association since 2022, traces the organization’s six-decade history from Louise Marshall’s 1966 kitchen-table newsletter, Signpost, to a nonprofit generating 160,000 volunteer trail hours a year. He explains...
A once-in-a-generation chance to reimagine public lands protection from the ground up The federal lands fight has shifted since Tracy Stone-Manning last sat down with Bill and Anders in June 2025. The workforce cuts she warned about have arrived; the Roadless Rule is...
The hollowing out of agencies is not something that can be reversed quickly. John Leshy is an Emeritus Professor at UC Law San Francisco, former Solicitor of the Interior Department under President Clinton, and the author of Our Common Ground: A History of America’s...
Gregg Treinish, who founded Adventure Scientists in 2011 after a 7,800-mile trek along the spine of the Andes, and Lara Birkes, the organization’s executive director as of 2026, discuss how the group trains outdoor athletes to collect scientific data on issues...
A wide-ranging conversation about one of the most contested and celebrated landscapes in the American West In this episode, Bill and Anders are joined by Autumn Gillard, coordinator for the Grand Staircase Intertribal Coalition, and Steve Bloch, legal director for the...
Organizing, advocacy, and the kind of power that’s still available to regular people when they decide to use it. Dalton George is the mayor of Boone, North Carolina and the national organizing director for the Endangered Species Coalition. He came up through...
