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Hosted by Nick Mackenzie · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 7 episodes
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The United States owns roughly a third of its own landmass, and on 240 million acres of it, private cattle, sheep, and goats graze the public's grass for $1.69 an animal a month while the public keeps the bill for the damage. The Long Run tests that bargain against the promise the U.S. Forest Service was founded on: Gifford Pinchot's creed that public resources should serve "the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run." Guided by a veteran of the Forest Service who watched the "Land of Many Uses" become a land of many abuses, the series follows the money and the water — the near-free forage and a program that costs more to run than it earns, the federal predator gun, the trampled watersheds nobody counts while everyone watches the data centers, the cheatgrass that rewires the West's fire, and the methane and lost soil carbon whose real cost runs about a hundred times the fees collected. It gives the ranchers' strongest case its full due, including a whole episode on where
Nick Mackenzie hosts The Long Run, a society show with 7 episodes published.
In 2026 Washington moved to lock in grazing "no net loss" even as three-quarters of grazing land is renewed with no environmental review. The finale of The Long Run weighs the reckoning and the alternatives — voluntary p
In 2026 Washington moved to lock in grazing "no net loss" even as three-quarters of grazing land is renewed with no environmental review. The finale of The Long Run weighs the reckoning and the alternatives — voluntary p
Public-land cattle emit about 12.4 million tons of CO2-equivalent a year, and the social cost runs roughly 100 times the grazing fees collected — for under 1.6% of America's beef. Episode 6 of The Long Run lays out the c
Public-land cattle emit about 12.4 million tons of CO2-equivalent a year, and the social cost runs roughly 100 times the grazing fees collected — for under 1.6% of America's beef. Episode 6 of The Long Run lays out the c
Sometimes a hoof on the land is a tool, not a toll. Episode 5 of The Long Run builds the strongest case for grazing — goats and sheep cutting wildfire fuel and knocking back weeds, ranches keeping open country from being
Sometimes a hoof on the land is a tool, not a toll. Episode 5 of The Long Run builds the strongest case for grazing — goats and sheep cutting wildfire fuel and knocking back weeds, ranches keeping open country from being
The weeds that arrive with the herd cure early, carpet the ground, and shortened the West's fire cycle from roughly a century to a few years. Episode 4 of The Long Run traces cheatgrass, the grass-fire cycle, and the bil
The weeds that arrive with the herd cure early, carpet the ground, and shortened the West's fire cycle from roughly a century to a few years. Episode 4 of The Long Run traces cheatgrass, the grass-fire cycle, and the bil
We count every gallon a data center drinks, but not what cattle do to the plumbing that stores the West's water. Episode 3 of The Long Run follows grazing into the riparian zone — stripped banks, warmed trout streams, an
We count every gallon a data center drinks, but not what cattle do to the plumbing that stores the West's water. Episode 3 of The Long Run follows grazing into the riparian zone — stripped banks, warmed trout streams, an
The government lets private herds graze public land for $1.69 an animal a month — about a tenth of the private rate — and spends more running the program than it collects. Episode 2 of The Long Run walks the ledger: the
The government lets private herds graze public land for $1.69 an animal a month — about a tenth of the private rate — and spends more running the program than it collects. Episode 2 of The Long Run walks the ledger: the
A century ago the U.S. Forest Service promised to manage public land for "the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run." Episode 1 of The Long Run sets the test: Gifford Pinchot and the 1905 birth of the Fore
A century ago the U.S. Forest Service promised to manage public land for "the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run." Episode 1 of The Long Run sets the test: Gifford Pinchot and the 1905 birth of the Fore
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