Connecting Americans and Public Lands

We’re excited to welcome journalist Nate Schweber to the show! Today our conversation delves into how journalism has told the story of our public lands across the years, and Nate shares more about his recent book This America of Ours and other crucial writings about our public spaces.

Books, resources, and other notes from today’s episode:

• The West Against Itself by Bernard DeVoto
• This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild by Nate Schweber
• The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology edited by William Kitteredge Annick Smith
• Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome by Joseph Kinsey Howard
• Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle
• Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post)
• High County News
• Yale e360
• Hal Herring
• Ed Roberson
• Betsy Gaines Quamman
• Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

Nate Schweber is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, ProPublica, The Guardian, and elsewhere. His 2022 book “This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild” won High Plains Book Award and a first place award from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Born and raised in Missoula, Montana, he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Find Nate at his website and on social media: Instagram, Bluesky, Facebook, and X.

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