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Sagebrush Rebellion, Wise Use, Bundy Ranch, Recapture Canyon, Malheur.
Learn about the people, places, and movements behind the news-making events in this panel discussion.

Betsy Gaines Quammen is a historian and conservationist and author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West. (Torrey House Press, March 2020) She received a doctorate in Environmental History from Montana State University in 2017, her dissertation focusing on Mormon settlement and public land conflicts. She has studied various religious traditions over the years, with particular attention to how cultures view landscape and wildlife.

Jonathan P. Thompson is an award-winning author and journalist. He usually writes about the land, culture and communities of the American West, with an emphasis on energy development, pollution, land-use politics and economics. He is the author of River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster (Torrey House Press, February 2018) and is a contributing editor at High Country News. His book, Sagebrush Empire: A Journey Into the Heart of the Public Land Wars, will be published by Torrey House Press in August.

David Garrett Byars made his directorial debut at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival with No Man's Land, a documentary about the 2016 militia occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. David's latest film is Public Trust, a film about America's public lands, their history, and the conflicts surrounding them. David is currently working on a film about community energy in Europe. His other work includes Recapture, a short documentary chronicling the attempt of right-wing activists to reclaim the federally-managed Recapture Canyon in southern Utah.