
Out West (Presented by the Western Governors’ Association)
by Western Governors’ Association
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The fast-approaching future of quantum computing with Colorado Governor Jared Polis
Mar 27, 2026
26m 46s
Cleaning Up Abandoned Hardrock Mines with Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper
Oct 16, 2025
37m 21s
Energy Superabundance: Unlocking Prosperity in the West with Utah Governor Spencer Cox
Oct 2, 2025
43m 11s
Leave it to Beaver: How Nature’s Engineers Help Mitigate Disasters
Mar 28, 2025
42m 48s
Exploring Community Navigator Programs with USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Meryl Harrell
Jan 17, 2025
39m 08s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/27/26 | ![]() The fast-approaching future of quantum computing with Colorado Governor Jared Polis✨ | quantum computingtechnology+1 | Jared PolisIvan Deutsch+3 | quantum computingWGA+4 | Colorado | quantum industrybreakthroughs+1 | — | 26m 46s | |
| 10/16/25 | ![]() Cleaning Up Abandoned Hardrock Mines with Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper✨ | abandoned minesGood Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act+1 | John Hickenlooper | Cleaning Up Abandoned Hardrock Mines | Colorado | miningenvironment+1 | — | 37m 21s | |
| 10/2/25 | ![]() Energy Superabundance: Unlocking Prosperity in the West with Utah Governor Spencer Cox✨ | Energy SuperabundanceProsperity+1 | Spencer Cox | WGAOut West+1 | Utah | UtahWGA+1 | — | 43m 11s | |
| 3/28/25 | ![]() Leave it to Beaver: How Nature’s Engineers Help Mitigate Disasters✨ | beaverswetland ecosystems+4 | Jonah SeiferZach Nowak | WGA | West | ecosystem restorationaquatic rodents+1 | — | 42m 48s | |
| 1/17/25 | ![]() Exploring Community Navigator Programs with USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Meryl Harrell✨ | community navigatorsUSDA+2 | Meryl Harrell | USDANatural Resources and Environment+3 | — | natural resourcesenvironment+1 | — | 39m 08s | |
| 1/16/25 | ![]() Decarbonizing the West with Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon✨ | decarbonizationinnovation+4 | Mark Gordon | Decarbonizing the West initiative reportWGA+2 | Wyoming | decarbonization strategiescarbon credit markets+2 | — | 44m 50s | |
| 11/27/24 | ![]() Fighting Invasive Mussels in Western States with Idaho Governor Brad Little✨ | invasive specieszebra mussels+3 | Brad LittleChanel Tewalt+4 | WGAState Department of Agriculture+5 | Idahothe Snake River+3 | Snake RiverColorado River+2 | — | 36m 48s | |
| 7/19/24 | ![]() Celebrating 40 Years of Bipartisanship at the Western Governors' Association✨ | bipartisanshipgovernance+2 | Steve BullockGary Herbert+5 | the Western Governors' AssociationWestern+3 | WyomingMontana+4 | anniversaryfireside chat+2 | — | 58m 17s | |
| 1/24/24 | ![]() A Conversation with WGA Chair, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon, and WGA Executive Director, Jack Waldorf✨ | bipartisan relationshipsWGA Chair Initiative+2 | Mark GordonJack Waldorf | WGAthe Western Governors' Association+2 | Wyoming | Western Governors' AssociationWGA+2 | — | 29m 34s | |
| 1/8/24 | ![]() Founding Celebrate the West with Christine Ogsbury✨ | Celebrate the Westinspiration+1 | Christine Ogsbury | Celebrate the WestOut West | — | — | — | 10m 56s | |
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| 10/4/23 | ![]() The Heat Beneath Our Feet: Exploring the Potential of Geothermal Energy with Colorado Governor Jared Polis | The potential of geothermal energy in the West is vast and offers significant advantages in the effort to expand renewable energy resources. Advances in technology and increased interest in developing domestic sources of low-cost, reliable, clean energy have brought greater attention to the energy potential of the heat beneath our feet. As Chair of the Western Governors’ Association in 2023, Colorado Governor Jared Polis launched The Heat Beneath Our Feet initiative to examine opportunities for and barriers to the accelerated development and deployment of geothermal energy technologies. Through a rigorous stakeholder process that included four workshops, six tours, a public survey, and a webinar series, the Heat Beneath Our Feet initiative generated recommendations for increasing the development and deployment of geothermal energy in the West. In this episode of Out West, Governor Polis shares some of his experiences from the initiative and discusses the policy recommendations outlined in the initiative report. You’ll also hear from Amanda Kolker, the laboratory program manager for geothermal at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Dr. Joseph Moore and Dr. John Mclennan, the Managing Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator at the Utah FORGE Laboratory; Nick Goodman, the CEO of Cyrq Energy, and Paul Thomsen, the Vice President of Business Development at Ormat Technologies Inc. | 51m 19s | ||||||
| 1/9/23 | ![]() Out West (#36): Meet the winners of the 2022 Celebrate the West regional art competition | Each year the Western Governors’ Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Western Governors' Association, hosts a competition that challenges high school students to create a piece of artwork that is inspired by their state. Now in its eighth year, Celebrate the West generates hundreds of amazing pieces created by budding western artists. The application window for this year’s competition opened on January 9th. The deadline for entries is April 30th. In today’s episode of Out West, Anna Thielen, the Western Governors’ Foundation Manager, speaks with last year’s winner, Michelle Lin, about what inspired her acrylic painting titled Unity. Anna also speaks with Sharron Rouse, one of the art experts on the Celebrate the West judging panel, about what made Michelle’s painting stand out. She also speaks with Thomas Wiberg, the third recipient of WGF’s Award for Outstanding High School Art Educator, about the importance of art education in the West. | 17m 36s | ||||||
| 12/1/22 | ![]() Out West (#35): The Well of the Future: Repurposing Oil and Gas Wells for Geothermal Energy Production | In the latest episode of WGA’s Out West podcast, The Well of the Future: Repurposing Oil and Gas Wells for Geothermal Energy Production, WGA Policy Advisor Steven Emmen sits down with Johanna Ostrum, the Chief Operating Officer of Transitional Energy; Will Pettitt, the Geothermal Discipline Lead at Baker Hughes; and Will Gosnold, a professor of geological engineering at the University of North Dakota. Together they delve into the potential for blending aspects of the oil and gas industry with geothermal energy production, and how doing so can help make both industries more efficient and sustainable. | 31m 33s | ||||||
| 9/15/22 | ![]() Out West (#34): The Next Generation of Western Leaders | The Next Generation of Western Leaders, the latest episode of WGA’s Out West podcast, highlights the inaugural class of delegates from the 2022 Western Governors’ Leadership Institute, a new programmatic offering from the Western Governors’ Foundation that is designed to promote and encourage the effective exercise of leadership in young adults throughout the West. Listen in as Aspen Lenning from Oklahoma, Gustaf Vanderdonck from Arizona, Samantha Mooney from Colorado, Gabriella Smith from Washington, Brandon Larranaga from New Mexico, Kaleb Dschaak from North Dakota, Jonathan Karlen from Montana, and Skyler Bollar from Idaho discuss their experiences at this year's Institute and how their interactions with the Governors, Cabinet Secretaries, and sponsors who attended the event, enhanced their perspective of effective leadership and bipartisan political action. | 27m 30s | ||||||
| 6/23/22 | ![]() Out West (#33): Supporting Coal Communities | The new episode of WGA’s Out West podcast, 'Supporting Coal Communities,' explores the economic trends impacting Utah’s coal communities in the face of changing energy markets and state efforts to bolster economic development opportunities in those areas. Listen in as WGA Senior Policy Advisor, Lauren DeNinno, speaks with Alyssa Kay, Director of Program Development for the Utah Office of Energy Development, and Geri Gamber, the Executive Director of the Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments. Together they discuss specific programs that the state has pursued to support rural economic development, like the San Rafael Energy Research Center, which works to diversify the state's energy portfolio and help employees in the coal industry transition their skills to new economic sectors. | 31m 41s | ||||||
| 5/17/22 | ![]() Out West (#32) Agricultural Workforce in the West | The new episode of WGA’s Out West podcast, Agricultural Workforce in the West, explores the challenges that communities face as more agricultural workers retire, the barriers that young people face when attempting to start a career in the industry and opportunities to address the issue by expanding apprenticeship programs on family farms and ranches. Listen in as WGA Policy Advisor, Kevin Moss, speaks with Kate Greenberg, the Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture, and Sarah Wenzel-Fisher, the Executive Director of the Quivira Coalition, a non-profit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico that is dedicated to building economic and ecological resilience on western working landscapes. Together they discuss effective workforce training programs and partnerships that can help young people develop the necessary tools for a successful career in agriculture. | 38m 47s | ||||||
| 4/21/22 | ![]() Out West (#31): Post-Fire Restoration Challenges | 'Post-Fire Restoration Challenges' explores the challenges that wildfire-affected communities face and the available resources to help them recover. Listen in as WGA Director of Federal Relations and Strategic Initiatives Troy Timmons speaks with the Founder and CEO of Coalitions & Collaboratives, Inc., Carol Ekarius, about improving community capacity to address restoration needs, federal programs that offer assistance and opportunities to enhance the implementation of both pre-fire mitigation and post-fire restoration work. | 37m 22s | ||||||
| 3/14/22 | ![]() Out West (#30): Fixing America’s Forest | The new episode of WGA’s Out West podcast, Fixing America’s Forests, delves into recent forest management projects that successfully protected western communities by slowing potentially catastrophic wildfires and insect infestations. The lessons extrapolated from these case studies can help communities coordinate forest health treatments – especially as resources become available as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the U.S. Forest Services’ 10-year fire strategy. Listen in as WGA Policy Advisor Jonah Seifer talks with Ben Wudtke, the Executive Director of the Intermountain Forest Association, about how collaborative, all-lands interventions can effectively save communities and ecosystems from uncharacteristic wildfire and insect epidemics, building long-term resilience in our forests. | 27m 57s | ||||||
| 2/14/22 | ![]() Out West (#29): Supporting Cross-Boundary Conservation | The latest episode of WGA’s ‘Out West’ podcast, Supporting Cross-Boundary Conservation, explores the importance of cross-boundary management for healthy and productive working lands, and how programs with the National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) can help unify various management activities across public and private lands. In this episode, WGA Policy Advisor Kevin Moss sits down with Emily Fife, the Utah State Conservationist for the NRCS, to discuss opportunities for landowners to leverage NRCS programs that support species conservation, how NRCS works with western communities on landscape planning, and why current drought and wildfire stressors require coordinated responses across ownership boundaries. | 21m 34s | ||||||
| 1/20/22 | ![]() Out West (#28): On the Mind: Youth Behavioral Health Care Access | This episode of ‘Out West’ delves into the region’s behavioral health care challenges that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic – including obstacles to accessing care and significant workforce shortages – and the strategies that western states have applied to overcome these issues. Listen in as WGA Policy Advisor Lauren Cloward speaks with Mary Beth Brown, the Behavioral Health Strategist at the Washington State Department of Health, and Megan Selheim, the Youth and Young Adult Program Manager at the Wyoming Department of Health, about the efforts of western states to integrate behavioral health into primary care practices and improve youth behavioral health care access in resource-constrained areas. | 33m 33s | ||||||
| 12/21/21 | ![]() Out West (#27) Strengthening the State-Federal Relationship | The new episode of WGA’s Out West podcast, Federalism, the Genius of American Democracy, explores the work that Western states and organizations are undertaking to strengthen and rebalance the states’ relationship with the federal government. Listen in as WGA Senior Policy Advisor Kevin Doran speaks with Matt Morrison, CEO of the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation, Edgar Ruiz, Director of the Council of State Governments West, Jonathan Shuffield, Associate Legislative Director for Public Lands and Liaison to the Western Interstate Region for the National Association of Counties, and WGA Executive Director Jim Ogsbury about their collective work to protect and promote state authority. | 32m 22s | ||||||
| 11/22/21 | ![]() Out West (#26) Moss Balls and Emergency Invasive Species Responses | The new episode of WGA’s Out West podcast, Moss Balls and Emergency Invasive Species Responses, explores the collaborative efforts of western states and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to address the recent discovery that Marimo moss balls, which are often used in aquariums and sold in pets stores nationwide, harbored invasive zebra mussels. Listen in as WGA policy advisor Laura Cutlip speaks with Brian Nesvik, the Director of Wyoming Game and Fish, Joshua Leonard, the Statewide Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator for Wyoming Game and Fish, and Eric Anderson, an officer with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, about the strategies they developed to meet this surprising threat and the importance of effective state-federal partnerships in the rapid response to invasive species management. | 36m 01s | ||||||
| 10/19/21 | ![]() Out West (#25): Diversifying the Cybersecurity Workforce | In honor of Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week and National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the new episode of WGA’s Out West podcast, Diversifying the Cybersecurity Workforce, explores the efforts to address workforce shortages in the cybersecurity field by expanding the talent pipeline and actively training un- and underemployed populations, including those with disabilities. Listen in on the conversation between, WGA Policy Advisor Lauren Cloward, Jeff Rangel, the Senior Director of Global Corporate Responsibility at Palo Alto Networks, and Patrick Romzek, the CEO and Founder of Bridge to Opportunity. | 28m 39s | ||||||
| 9/14/21 | ![]() Out West (#24): The Western Governors’ Association 2021 Annual Report | The Western Governors’ Association recently released its 2021 Annual Report, which highlights the Western Governors’ past year’s policy work and paths to continue that work. The conversation in this episode includes topics such as broadband connectivity, workforce development, COVID-19 response and recovery, cybersecurity, wildfires and species management. Listen in to the conversation between WGA Executive Director Jim Ogsbury, WGA Senior Policy Advisor Lauren DeNinno, and Director of Federal Relations and Strategic Initiatives Troy Timmons. | 14m 04s | ||||||
| 8/25/21 | ![]() Out West (#23): Meet the winners of the 2021 Celebrate the West regional art competition | The Western Governors’ Foundation recently announced the winners in the sixth annual Celebrate the West regional art competition, which challenged high school students to create two-dimensional artwork inspired by their state. This year nearly 400 works of art were entered. Listen in as Foundation Advisor Anna Thielen talks with First Place winner Isabella Tarantino from New Mexico, Shaw Y. Hu of Arizona (Second Place), and Alain Soltys-Gray of Alaska (Third Place) about their inspiration and artwork. | 16m 46s | ||||||
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