Backpackinglight -The ANWR, Public Lands, and the Trump Administration

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Jimmy Carter created the

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in 1980, and it’s been a contentious subject virtually ever since. A bonanza of biodiversity, it also potentially sits atop one of America’s last untapped oil reserves. In this episode, Andrew talks to

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, a journalist covering the recent push by the Trump administration to lease oil and gas rights in the refuge. Adam is a reporting fellow with

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, where he’s spent the last few years covering energy, public land, and the Trump administration’s environmental policies. 

His recent piece “

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” caught our eye when it ran in Politico in July of 2019. We immediately reached out to Adam for a chat about

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as well as a larger conversation about public land policy in the United States.  

You can read the final Environmental Impact Statement

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 and make sure and check out the show notes (below) for more resources. 

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