Page and Collin talk with author, conservationist, and farmer Bill deBuys from his home in El Valle, NM.

Page and Collin chat with Lindsey Quam, Deputy Director of Forests, New Mexico Forestry Division.

In this episode of Hot & Dry we talk with Julia Bernal about the Pueblo Action Alliance, her recent experience traveling to DC to deliver a totem and checking in on "Auntie Deb" (Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland), and the Water Back movement. We ask Julia whether the changes that need to happen for the Water Back and other campaigns she's involved with can happen within the existing dominant paradigm, or whether a more dramatic change is needed. Tune in!

In this, our intermission episode of Season 3, Collin and Page are guestless, but not totally clueless and they've got great taste in film. Tune in for an invitation to an upcoming movie night on Collin's lawn, and our take on this summer's news about water, fire, and the undeniable climate connection between the changes happening to both.

Page and Collin sit down with Laura Paskus, an environmental writer and journalist in New Mexico. We talk about water, climate change, and how chicken little kinda got a bad rap. Laura's new book, At the Precipice, is out now. Go buy it!

In this episode of Hot & Dry, we talk about local solutions to global issues with Las Cruces City Council member, Gabe Vasquez. Joined by a charm of finches, we talk to Gabe about his reason for running for council, his big ideas for the Rio Bravo, and what post-council life looks like for him. Join us.

In this, our second episode of Hot & Dry's third season, we catch up with artist and activist Nina Elder moments before she flies to Alaska for her next project. Our conversation with Nina covers the importance of embracing complexity, the fraying and weaving of threads, and paradox pies.

New season, new co-host, and a new focus. For our third season of Hot & Dry, we invited New Mexico's climate influencers—leaders in and from the state who are committed to climate change adaptation, mitigation, and research to be our guests. The artists, scientists, and political leaders who we talk with are working in diverse ways to ensure a vibrant future for New Mexico. For the first episode this season, we sit down with Melanie Stansbury, a candidate in the June 1 special election for NM's first congressional district.

In our last episode of the season we process out loud the fire season that is 2020. We hear from folks directly impacted and talk to a certified climate expert to learn how climate change is (or isn't) causing the fires on the west coast.

Living with fire means different things to different people. In this episode Cally and Collin talk with Jeremy Bailey and Pepe Iniguez about how prescribed fire and managed fire might help us create a pathway that leads us living with fire. We talk about some of the barriers and some interesting marketing strategies.

We talked with two scientists about life in the Wildland Urban Interface or WUI. We were particularly curious about why people choose to move into these areas even when the risks are well known and have been demonstrated pretty dramatically in the past few years. We wanted to know what gets people motivated to take action to reduce their risks.

We talk with Laura McCarthy and Bill Armstrong about how folks pulled together to restore the forest in the municipal watershed of Santa Fe, NM. From there Laura went on to start the Rio Grande Water Fund which covers 7 million acres in New Mexico. In 2019, she helped pass the Forest and Watershed Restoration Act, aimed at restoring forests across the entire state.

Cally and Collin talk with experts on extreme fire behavior. We learn it is more complex than it seems and the exact definition is hard to pin down.

Catastrophic fires in the Southwest are often a double whammy of fire and floods. The floods that followed the 2011 Las Conchas Fire caused massive erosion, impaired water quality, and threatened several downstream communities. Cally and Collin talk with members of Cochiti and Santa Clara Pueblos about how the floods and the fire impacted their communities and how they’re using this moment to create hope for the future.

There is no single definition of what makes a single fire the “big one.” But there are some common factors: extreme fire behavior, dramatic fire severity, watersheds burned, and communities threatened. In New Mexico, our big one was (and arguably still is) the 2011 Las Conchas Fire. Even though this isn’t the largest fire on record, it still is the one we talk about most. In part one of a two-part episode, Cally and Collin talk with Craig Allen from the USGS New Mexico Landscapes Field Station, who has studied fire ecology in New Mexico for over 30 years. He was there during the fire and shared his stories with us.

Welcome to Season 2! Cally and Collin talk with experts on how COVID-19 is changing the way we respond to fires across the Southwest and the US. The virus has umm... infected... every aspect of our lives, including wildfire response. In this episode, we’ll learn how management teams are responding to fires and the coronavirus at the same time.

What did the New Mexico legislature accomplish on climate in 2019? And what's next?

In this week's episode, we sit down with journalist Laura Paskus to celebrate the snowpack, bemoan the dry, dry ground it will melt into this spring, and consider how freaked out we should be about our too-close-to-empty reservoirs.

New Mexico's leaders want to stop burnin' up money by wasting methane in the oil fields. Reducing methane waste is good for the climate too. Plus, Michael Cohen jokes!

This week we break down The Energy Transition Act, which would make New Mexico a national leader in renewable energy and shut down the San Juan Generating Station.