E58 Wade Crowfoot – Water, Wildfire & the Future of Conservation in California

Hello, and welcome to this edition of Naturally Scott.

I am your host, Scott Harris, and today's guest is a fascinating man, Wade Crowfoot, who is the secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency.

So he runs a small little staff of 26,000 people.

And he's been a part of Governor Newsom's cabinet in California since 2019, which is where the California Natural Resources Agency is based, obviously.

They've got 26 departments, commissions, and conservancies, and their mandate is to protect, manage, and restore the state's environment and its vast natural, cultural, and historical resources, which is a tremendous job.

One of the things that I found most interesting is that, uh, Secretary Crowfoot is in charge of Cal Fire and the state park system in California, which I was a huge fan of in all the years that I lived out there.

We're gonna talk about a lot, lot of stuff.

We're gonna talk about wild land and the environment, we're gonna talk about some critters, and we're gonna talk a lot about water and fire, which are two massive issues in the state of California, and both which fall under his purview.

So take a listen, um, uh, to what, uh, Wade Crowfoot has to say, and I hope you enjoy this, and I will look forward to getting some feedback from you guys after you've watched it.

Thanks, take care, have a great day, and stay curious.