Inside the battle for America’s West

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Behind the Money

2024-04-17

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A few years ago, four men went on a hunting trip to Wyoming. That trip would end up changing their lives — and possibly, the future of the public’s access to millions of acres of land in America's western states. The FT’s Oliver Roeder expands on the saga that’s played out since 2021 inside courtrooms and within thousands of pages of legal documents.   Clips from KGWN, Ludlow Music and The Richmond Organisation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  For further reading: Battle for the American West Seven states, 3,000 miles: a trip across the US energy divide Wyoming’s Carbon Valley aims to turn ‘coal into gold’ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  On X, follow Oliver Roeder (@ollie) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07), or follow Michela on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • For some people, going on a hunting trip in the state of Wyoming is sort of the ultimate dream.

  • Wyoming is holy ground for hunting.

  • That's my colleague Oliver Rader.

  • He's a data journalist at the FT.

  • There's a lot of animals there.

  • It's baked into the culture there.

  • Like hunting is a real time-honored pastime.

  • So in 2021, when a group of four men from Missouri decide to partake in that time-honored tradition,

  • they travel to a place in southern Wyoming called Elk Mountain,

  • a place that a few of them had traveled to before.

  • For hunters, it has incredible appeal.

  • It's home to something like a thousand elk and it's just a beautiful part of the country and incredibly isolated and sparsely populated.

  • So it's late September and these four friends, they finally arrive at Elk Mountain.