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Andy Mergen & Justin Pidot: How Do We Make Public Lands More Public?

Andy Mergen & Justin Pidot: How Do We Make Public Lands More Public?

Aug 4, 2026 | Indigenous Voices & Sovereignty, Land Use, Energy & Development, The Wild Idea, Wildlife & Biodiversity

Andrew Mergen, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and a 33-year veteran of public lands litigation at the Department of Justice, and Justin Pidot, a University of Arizona law professor and former general counsel...
Lynn Scarlett & Matt Lee-Ashley: Can We Rewrite the Rules of Public Lands Policy?

Lynn Scarlett & Matt Lee-Ashley: Can We Rewrite the Rules of Public Lands Policy?

Jul 28, 2026 | Community, Justice & Belonging, Indigenous Voices & Sovereignty, Land Use, Energy & Development, The Wild Idea

Lynn Scarlett, former Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of the Interior and now Managing Director for Public Policy at The Nature Conservancy, and Matt Lee-Ashley, Executive Director of Ground Shift, discuss the initiative, sponsored...
Brooks Lamb: Land, Legacy, and Who Comes Next

Brooks Lamb: Land, Legacy, and Who Comes Next

Jul 21, 2026 | Community, Justice & Belonging, Land Use, Energy & Development, Outdoor Culture & Adventure, The Wild Idea

Brooks Lamb, Special Advisor for Strategic Communications at American Farmland Trust and author of Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place, explains why more than 300 million acres of American farmland, roughly a third of the nation’s...
Heather Hansman: Fierce Women Who Ignited America’s Love for the Wild

Heather Hansman: Fierce Women Who Ignited America’s Love for the Wild

Jul 14, 2026 | Climate & Environmental Change, Community, Justice & Belonging, Outdoor Culture & Adventure, The Wild Idea

Journalist Heather Hansman, author of Downriver and Powder Days, discusses her new book Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America’s Love for the Wild, which profiles Grand Canyon river guide Georgie White, Adirondack wilderness...
Paul Hendricks, Jen McLaren & Dawn Mancini Moyer: Why Outdoor Brands Are Speaking Up for Public Lands

Paul Hendricks, Jen McLaren & Dawn Mancini Moyer: Why Outdoor Brands Are Speaking Up for Public Lands

Jul 7, 2026 | Community, Justice & Belonging, Land Use, Energy & Development, Outdoor Culture & Adventure, The Wild Idea

Paul Hendricks, executive director of The Conservation Alliance; Jen McLaren, global brand president of Altra; and Dawn Mancini Moyer, regional sustainability manager at Fjällräven, join Bill and Anders for a live panel recorded at Switchback Spring 2026, the outdoor...
Meryl Harrell & Lisa Ronald: The future of stewarding our shared wild places

Meryl Harrell & Lisa Ronald: The future of stewarding our shared wild places

Jun 30, 2026 | Community, Justice & Belonging, Land Use, Energy & Development, Outdoor Culture & Adventure, The Wild Idea

Meryl Harrell, former Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment at USDA and a leader at Friends of the Forest Service, and Lisa Ronald, Western Montana Associate Conservation Director at American Rivers and co-founder of the Wild and Scenic Rivers...
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