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On Common Ground: An American Inheritance

by Eleven Dollar Bill
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About the show

America holds hundreds of millions of acres of land in trust for the public — national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, and the waters off our coasts. Right now, that inheritance is being taken, not in secret, but in plain sight, while the country's attention is elsewhere. On Common Ground: An American Inheritance is a six-part documentary podcast about the immediate threats to America's public lands. In 2025, a proposal to sell three million acres of public land set off a national uproar and was defeated. It felt like a victory. But while the country fought that sale, something far more damaging passed into law in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: a mandate to open more than 200 million acres of public land to industrial development — many times the size of the sale that was defeated. The fight we won mattered less than the fight we lost. Across six episodes, the series follows an unlikely and unusually broad coalition: hunters and anglers, Tribal leaders, climbers, scientists, poets, public servants, and local communities. They don't agree on everything, but they share a conviction that some places are worth protecting and passing on to the next generation. At its heart, the series asks a simple question: What does it mean to share common ground as Americans — and what would it mean to lose it? The series is hosted by Bill Hedden, former Executive Director of the Grand Canyon Trust, with co-host John Leshy — former Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior and one of the foremost authorities on the history and law of America's public lands. All episodes of this limited series will be available in August. Follow along: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/on_common_ground_ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@on.common.ground YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OnCommon_Ground On Common Ground: An American Inheritance is hosted by Bill Hedden and John Leshy. Produced by Sarah Hedden, Dagny Scott, and Del Feltz. Sound engineering by Joe Flood. Additional sound editing by Grace Wiley. This series is a production of Eleven Dollar Bill, and a project of the Getches-Wilkinson Center at the University of Colorado Law School.

Latest episodes

  • Episode 6: The Inheritance

    August 27, 2026 · 30 min

    The finale of this 6-part documentary series offers hope and a vision of what public lands could still become if people are willing to stand up for the places they love. "The Inheritance" opens with Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate…

  • Episode 5: The Cost

    August 26, 2026 · 23 min

    In the 1970s, Bill Hedden took a job at the Atlas uranium mill on the banks of the Colorado River in Moab. He was lucky: a spot on the construction crew kept him away from the mill's most lethal work — the acid tanks, the yellowcake…

  • Episode 4: The Lies

    August 24, 2026 · 28 min

    Every argument for dismantling America's public lands is built to sound reasonable: we need affordable housing; the West shouldn't be run by faceless bureaucrats in Washington; public lands represent a broken promise to the states. Episode…

  • Episode 3: The Plunderers

    August 17, 2026 · 29 min

    Who really owns America's public lands, and who is trying to take them away? Episode three, "The Plunderers," follows the money. It opens with four hunters from Missouri who crossed from one corner of public land to another without ever…

  • Episode 2: The Land

    August 17, 2026 · 42 min

    Episode two, "The Land," is the origin story: how the United States came to hold 640 million acres in trust for the public, how concentrated wealth plundered and privatized much of it in the 1800s, and how the nation pulled back from the…

  • Episode 1: The Theft

    August 4, 2026 · 40 min

    Last summer, millions of Americans rose up to defeat Senator Mike Lee's plan to sell off 3.5 million acres of public land. Hunters and anglers, climbers, veterans, and tribal nations all joined the fight. It felt like a victory. It turned…

  • Trailer: On Common Ground

    July 27, 2026 · 2 min

    Public lands belong to all of us. Right now, that inheritance is being taken, not in secret, but in plain sight. Last year, Americans rallied to stop a plan to sell off public land — and won. But the fight that made headlines mattered far…