joining us live is frank dean, president and ceo of the yosemite conservancy, a nonprofit that raises funds to preserve and protect yosemite. thank you so much for your time. guest: happy to be here. kristen: this is one of the biggest attractions in yosemite. it has been 20 years since i visited it i remember it was otherworldly and beautiful. and we need it to be unscathed. so what is the latest? i hear the grove is in a safer position now. guest: it is. the washburn fire started july 7 and it started right on the edge of the grove. unfortunately the winds blew it north almost immediately away from the grove. so the grove has largely been spared. there are a few large trees that were partially burned but we do not think they will die. the flames were not as high as the crowns of the trees, so i think we are in good shape, at least the mariposa grove. kristen: we tend to hear more about redwood trees here in northern california, but we should be just as proud as these sequoias. tells about how this growth came to be. guest: there are 500 large, iconic sequoia trees in the mariposa gr

a few years ago tompkins conservation and the chilean government set aside 10 million acres of patagonia, an area three times the size of yosemiteilding, patagonia is leading the way. european settlers and their voracious sheep may have laid waste to patagonia's mountain grasslands, but further up in the and eds others have lived in balance with the land for generations. this mountain is home to the gill family. their pastors are a few hours ride aid way so his son ricardo and ricardo jr. saddle up early. the goats will eat almost anything, but the good stuff is higher up the mountain. ricardo jr.'s family are one of the region's last surviving indigenous peoples. for generations they have watched outsiders abuse the land, cutting down trees and overgrazing pastures. ricardo jr.'s connection to this place runs far deeper. >>> we're traveling up through one of the wildest regions on earth. this other worldly landscape has been shaped by millions of years of volcanic activity. the buenos aires lake plateau rises 5,000 feet above sea level in the argentinian andes. 11 million years ago, lava from a huge volcanic cooled, leaving a m

a few years ago, tomkins' conservation and the chilean government set aside 10 million acres of patagonia, an area three times the size of yosemite and yellowstone combined, as prot protected land. when it comes to re-wilding, patagonia is leading the way . european settlers and their voracious sheep may have laid waste to patagonia's mountain grasslands. but further up in the andes, others have lived in balance with the land for generations. tres mountaines mountain is home this the family. their pastures are a few hours' ride away, so ricardo and his son, ricardo jr., saddle up early. their goats will eat almost anything, but the good stuff is higher up the mountain. ricardo jr.'s family are one of the region's last surviving indigenous peoples. for generations, they have watched outsiders abuse the land, cutting down trees and overgrazing pastures. ricardo jr.'s connection to this place runs far deeper. ♪ you know how to spend a little less to get a little more to make life a little better. ♪ there's a monster problem and our hero needs solutions. so she starts a miro to brainstorm. “shoot it?” suggests the scientists. so they

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conservation in this moment. it's encompassed really all of potential land uses. so the real precedent for the yellowstone act was the yosemite act of 1864. another wartime measure that gave the lands of yosemite and mariposa grove to the state of california to manage for the benefit of the people for public use, resort, and recreation. the yellowstone act, though, as a match, and it was a different kind of land taking. here, federal government was suggesting that they would take land from the territories and give it to the department of the interior to manage. and this was a new idea and this was a president setting idea because as you will see, some people had problems with this kind of idea as opposed to the idea of the yosemite act. when meghan returned to the yellowstone, he received a note from the pr man for jay cook of the northern pacific railroad, an investment banker who was raising money for the northern pacific. whose tracks, he hoped would run just north of the yellowstone basin. the letters suggested that hayden advocated for the creation of the national park in his piece and his report to congress. hayden had

yosemite national park is 0% under control. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to dateline. bringing together leading commentators from london. this week, british conservative mps completed their colleague coal in the hunt for that new leader and the country's next prime minister and they also called the economic consensus with which governments of left and right have operated for the last 20 years. and as the world waits for vladimir putin to allow safe passage of brain, why he himself was kept waiting. with me, a cricket commentator and foreign correspondent for pbs radio in the united states and host of a podcast. and steve richardson who began his career as a westminster correspondent as margaret thatcher was ending her is — coincidental. his blog is called rock and roll politics and his most recent book is about the talented politicians who failed to make it to number ten. steve, we believe the question unanswered of which of the current two might be that person in any future addition of the book. what do you make of the choice that tory mps have presented party members with between liz truss and rishi sunak? i party members with between liz truss and