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Sep 14, 2026
JasonHOST
Yeah.
JasonHOST
Yeah, it's interesting, right? 'Cause I mean, there's people like me who, like any time, you know, either you are coming out with something or it could be High Country News, WyoFile, which I think, you know, maybe you folks are collaborating with them at, at the water desk.
JasonHOST
Um, these are all things I'm always kind of reading, in particular reading because I'm interested in this, just water, water out West.
JasonHOST
Um-
Tristan AhtoneGUEST
Basically, they're pulling land from what is labeled the public domain outside of state borders and then selling it.
Brian MackeyHOST
I first encountered your work in High Country News.
Brian MackeyHOST
I don't know if that was your first reporting on this.
Brian MackeyHOST
I think back in 2020, there was a really cool graphic.
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Tristan AhtoneGUEST
But there's only so much you can do in sort of like data scraping.
Tristan AhtoneGUEST
Almost the rest of this, you know, around 5 million acres of land that we identified had to be input into the system like spreadsheets by hand by a team.
Tristan AhtoneGUEST
So it was a really long time period of being able to not only So work with Dr. Lee, bring this idea into High Country News, start putting together the story.
Tristan AhtoneGUEST
But then it was the actual sort of like legwork of researching and essentially inputting this data, which is why we have such a rich database to do this.
Aline BrownGUEST
The Propagandist is an original Drilled miniseries.
Aline BrownGUEST
It was reported, written, and hosted by Aline Brown, and produced in collaboration with High Country News.
Aline BrownGUEST
Our editor is Audrey Quinn.
Aline BrownGUEST
Senior producer and sound designer is Martin Zaltz Austwick.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
It's also happening on places where you can shoot guns and bring your dogs.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
High Country News and Public Domain are reporting that the Trump administration is fast-tracking drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve by allowing new winter exploratory drilling to move forward without any kind of environmental review indefinitely.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
The Department of the Interior is expected to issue a categorical exclusion to the National Environmental Policy Act.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
The agency is pointing toward past environmental reviews, which they say show that winter exploration in the region poses no significant impact to the environment.
Scott KestersonHOST
And the photos are powerful.
Scott KestersonHOST
There was, this was, I believe PBS did a show on it and High Country News also did some photos on it.
Scott KestersonHOST
It's a really interesting story.
Scott KestersonHOST
Obviously, it's got a very romantic twist to it.
Josh RoseHOST
Well, I should say journalist plus, but we'll start with that because that's how she came on my radar.
Josh RoseHOST
Her work has appeared in Mother Jones, High Country News, The Nation, Indian Country Today.
Josh RoseHOST
And for her journalistic work, she's won... a Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, numerous grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Josh RoseHOST
But she's much more than a journalist, as you'll find out from our conversation.
Andy EngelsonGUEST
I love to hike and and it's just going to make it harder and harder to get up there and to get to those beautiful places.
Jane C. HuHOST
Yeah, last year, I actually edited a piece for High Country News, which talked about the impacts on the enchantments from those U.S. Forest Service layoffs.
Jane C. HuHOST
And at that time, Trump had also gutted the equine stock program, which I think is one of those really niche things a lot of people don't think about, right? But Essentially, this means that there were no more mules that could carry supplies into the backcountry to do trail work that people needed to do to maintain those trails.
Jane C. HuHOST
And the writer of this piece, Shian Kim, who's a wonderful journalist, wrote that the business of trail work is like dominoes.
Aline BrownHOST
The Propagandist is an original Drilled miniseries.
Aline BrownHOST
It was reported, written, and hosted by Aline Brown and produced in collaboration with High Country News.
Aline BrownHOST
Special thanks there to Kate Shiml and Sunny Klawtrztiliggi.
Aline BrownHOST
Our editor is Audrey Quinn.