About this episode

The episode discusses changes in public lands stewardship under recent U.S. administrations and features guests from a nonprofit focused on future stewardship.

Public lands stewardship has most definitely changed under the second presidential administration of Donald Trump. Land-management agencies such as the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management have lost thousands of employees, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is on a mission to turn the country's public lands into a cash cow of sorts. As the political tenure in Washington D.C., swings wildly back and forth like a massive pendulum when it comes to our public lands, there is an effort under way to provide a roadmap for public lands stewardship in the United States that stretches far into the future. Ground Shift is a new nonprofit organization working to, as they put it, "develop creative, durable, and transformative ideas to shape the next century of public land and water stewardship in the United States." To better understand this organization and its goals, our guests today are Lynn Scarlett, who was a deputy Interior secretary during the administration of President George Bush, and Tracy Stone-Manning, who directed the Bureau of Land Management under President Joe Biden.

People in this episode

Host: Kurt Repanshek

Guests: Lynn Scarlett, Tracy Stone-Manning

Topics covered

• public lands stewardship
• politics
• environment
• nonprofit organizations
• land management
• government policy

Keywords

• public lands
• stewardship
• Ground Shift
• land management
• political changes
• environmental policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ground Shift, National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management

Places: United States, Washington D.C.

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