Welcome to Match My Mountains, my podcast on conservation and history. Join me to explore the history of conservation in America– in both our natural heritage and the public lands, and our historic heritage preservation system– and the great American stories told through that great legacy. I’m trying to do what I can to help my fellow Republicans, environmentally-inclined and otherwise, wake up to the ridiculous plunder our party has been inflicting on the American natural heritage in our long time.
And moreover, I’m trying to help everyone think through conservation for the 21st Century– preserving all the best of the 20th Century’s, and thinking anew in the American spirit, and in the broadest sense, of America as an experience on the land and a land with a great experience. In the stewardship of living memory lies the bare minimum of any real conservation.
We’ll be joined by guests from a wide array of backgrounds, ideologically and professionally and politically, and because the ethos of conservation and stewardship stretches far beyond the public lands down into the lives of everyone who has a stake in them (that is, all Americans) we’ll have a lot of adventure, lifestyle, cultural, and policy themed episodes as well. Stay tuned.
The name comes from a poem I’ve loved for quite some time– “The Coming American,” by Sam Walter Foss. If you want the full version, please feel free and at liberty to PM me! But for now, here’s the opening lines:
“Bring Me Men to Match My Mountains
Bring Me Men to Match My Plains
Men With Empires in Their Purpose
And New Eras in Their Brains”
That’s the American continent calling the American people to greatness, to match the mountains of the land with the mountains in their souls. That’s the heritage American conservation ought always to preserve, and in some small way I hope to do it on air here. May you never run out of mountains…
Episode 1: An Annoyingly Brief History of American Conservation
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