In this week’s show, we look at a nonprofit organization whose sole existence is to acquire, from willing sellers, private lands surrounded by official, or proposed, wilderness in national parks, national forests, and other publicly owned lands. Once those lands are acquired and transferred to the federal land managers, The Wilderness Land Trust will put itself out of business. But that’s not going to happen overnight, as the Trust’s executive director, Brad Borst, explains during our conversation.
Back in 2018 this organization, working with the National Park Trust and the Rocky Mountain Conservation, was able to acquire a 33-acre inholding at Rocky Mountain National Park and see the land transferred to the National Park Service. But first it had to dismantle a house on the property.
