Andy Bjerk interviews Taylor Hawes, Director of The Nature Conservancy's Colorado River Program. The Colorado River is the life giving central artery for the desert Southwest of the USA and Northwest of Mexico, and it is being impacted by drought, climate change, and pressures of development throughout this special watershed.

Dominic Binggeli interviews Ileene Anderson, Public Lands Deserts Director and Senior Scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity in Los Angeles. Binggeli and Anderson discuss the Trump Administrations’ plans to allow fracking in California despite that State’s opposition to that method for extracting oil and natural gas.

Taylor Leapaldt interviews Tim Woody, the Regional Communications Manager for the Alaska office of the Wilderness Society. Taylor and Tim talk about the past, present, and future of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.

Dmytro Hutsal interviews Kerry Morrison of the Ecomedia Compass about environmental threats to the Salton Sea and surrounding region.

Hadley Nellis talks to Tim Rogers, Trails Program Manager at the Santa Fe Conservation Trust. This is the 3rd and final episode in Hadley's series on trail conservation and access.

This week Hadley interviews Ken Ilgunas, author of "This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back."

Hadley Nellis visits the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin and talks to Eric Sherman of the Ice Age Trail Alliance.

Rachel Presley discusses the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance movement, with special attention to the soundscape at Stand Rock during the coalitions' actions to oppose construction of the pipeline.

A conversation with the distinguished ethnomusicologist, Jeff Todd Titon, who discusses his conception of the "sound commons." Titon explains how the various ways we listen to, think about, and manage our soundscapes impact the lives of all living creatures, including humans.

Kicking off a new year with a preview of the upcoming guest reports and a report on controversial moves by William Perry Pendley, Nominee for Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to fulfill his dream of dismantling the BLM and privatize federally managed public lands. Shelley Silbert, Executive Director of Great Old Broads for Wilderness, explains why her group and 91 others signed a letter calling for Congress to reject Perry's nomination and the impending move of the BLM from Washington D.C. to Grand Junction, CO.