Episode 103 // Ed Roberson of Palmer Land Trust and Mountain & Prairie Podcast

Written By Danna Larson

Today on the podcast we’re with Ed Roberson, host of the Mountain & Prairie podcast and Conservation Director at Palmer Land Trust in Colorado. We’re talking about Ed’s journey from real estate and the business world into land conservation, the podcast community that he’s built, and the important work of conservation and how to get involved with conservation in your area. We also touch on the unique opportunities rising up in rural America as a result of COVID.

You’ll love hearing about the work Ed is doing both with Palmer Land Trust and through the Mountain & Prairie Podcast and we highly encourage you to go check out the podcast if you haven’t already! And stay tuned for a fun giveaway we’ll be doing with our listeners with the books on Ed’s 20 Most Influential Books list.

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Sometimes ranches and environmentalists don’t get along that well but I could see that they had a lot more in common than not.

— Ed Roberson

What we’re trying to do is figure out a way so that cities can expand. We’re not anti-expansion, anti-economic growth, but we don’t want cities to expand at the cost of drying up farmland. Because these farms are the lifeblood of a lot of these communities.

— Ed Roberson

Because of all of my reading of history, when you look at any crisis, there are winners that come out. There will be winners that come out of this crisis and things are going to change. So why not be the winner? Why not make rural America the winner? Because somebody’s gonna win.

— Ed Roberson

It would be great if we see a lot of these people in cities moving into rural communities because they want the community and they want a better way of life.

— Ed Roberson

Danna Larson
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