The podcast where land stories are the lead stories. Hosted by Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds, The Wild Line is a quick
Friday digest of the week’s top conservation and public lands policy news in plain language so our community stays informed, engaged and ready to act.
The Votes Are In, But What Do They Mean for Lands, Water, and Wildlife?
Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's midterms, and we ask the Southern Environmental Law Center's Nat Mund what that could mean for public lands, the Roadless Rule repeal, and data centers. We also break down conservation ballot measures in Colorado, Massachusetts, and California, and the Trust for Public Land's estimate of $19.4 billion in voter-backed conservation funding.
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30 Oct 2026
Last Call on the Ambler Mining Road, Second Cook Inlet Lease Sale Planned, Bear Baiting Returns to Alaska Preserves
The public comment period on the first mine proposed in Alaska's Ambler Mining District closes Monday, and we walk through what's at stake along the proposed 211-mile Ambler Road, plus a new film that follows its route on foot. We also cover reporting on Russian financing behind an Alaska LNG startup, a second Cook Inlet lease sale, data center power lines headed through West Virginia, proposed methane rollbacks, USDA letters asking states to reconsider wolf protections, and the Forest Service early exit deadline.
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23 Oct 2026
Chiricahua Named Newest National Park, BLM Hopes to Drill Utah Refuge, Private Equity Eyes Yellowstone
Chiricahua National Monument is now Chiricahua National Park, and the Bureau of Land Management wants to open roughly 5,200 acres of minerals beneath Utah's Ouray National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development. This week we also cover Blackstone-controlled Tallgrass Energy's $105 million gift to Yellowstone Forever, a Montana "super range" announced without a location, a proposed Forest Service travel management change, a Senate permitting deal Defenders of Wildlife says would cripple the Endangered Species Act, and the Justice Department's Supreme Court push to resume border construction in Big Bend.
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