Public lands stewardship has most definitely changed under the second presidential administration of Donald Trump. Land-management agencies such as the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management have lost thousands of employees, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is on a mission to turn the country’s public lands into a cash cow of sorts.
As the political tenure in Washington D.C., swings wildly back and forth like a massive pendulum when it comes to our public lands, there is an effort under way to provide a roadmap for public lands stewardship in the United States that stretches far into the future.
Ground Shift is a new nonprofit organization working to, as they put it, “develop creative, durable, and transformative ideas to shape the next century of public land and water stewardship in the United States.”
To better understand this organization and its goals, our guests today are Lynn Scarlett, who was a deputy Interior secretary during the administration of President George Bush, and Tracy Stone-Manning, who directed the Bureau of Land Management under President Joe Biden.
0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
1:06 Wabanaki - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:31 Grand Canyon Conservancy
1:53 Washington National Park Foundation
2:21 Episode 375 - Rethinking Public Lands Stewardship
22:32 Caribbean Song - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of the Everglades
22:57 Friends Alliance
23:22 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
23:43 Friends of Acadia
24:08 NPT Promo
24:23 Episode 375 Continues
45:51 Otter Point - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
46:40 Episode Closing
47:04 Orange Tree Productions
47:37 Splitbeard Productions
47:48 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Jess Repanshek - May 24th, 2026 5:00am
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