Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
If you’ve been out to almost any of our national parks, forests and BLM lands over the past year you’ll have a sense of the increasing pressures on the land from a wide range of users – tourists, remote employees, and people just needing an affordable place to call home. Greg Hanscom, High Country News' Publisher, interviews two of our veteran correspondents, Jonathan Thompson and Sarah Tory, about their recent stories on this phenomenon, accelerated by the pandemic, and how managers and communities are responding.
If you’ve been out to almost any of our national parks, forests and BLM lands over the past year you’ll have a sense of the increasing pressures on the land from a wide range of users – tourists, remote employees, and people just needing an affordable place to call home. Greg Hanscom, High Country News' Publisher, interviews two of our veteran correspondents, Jonathan Thompson and Sarah Tory, about their recent stories on this phenomenon, accelerated by the pandemic, and how managers and communities are responding.
