0:00- Background on the Bundys of Bunkerville, NV
9:53- Mormonism, conservation, and the constitution
20:55- White Horse Prophecy
23:36- Visiting the Bundy ranch; “the Nay book”
32:20- Church subcultures; the reaction of church leadership
48:09- Why is this important?
53:39- Reaction to the pandemic
1:00:36- American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West
1:03:05- Ending question
Betsy Gaines Quammen is a historian and conservationist. 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. The rural American West, pastoral communities of northern Mongolia, and the grasslands of East Africa have been her main areas of interest. After college in Colorado, caretaking for a bed and breakfast in Mosier, Oregon, and serving breakfasts at a cafe in Kanab, Utah, Betsy settled in Bozeman, Montana, where she now lives with her husband, writer David Quammen, three huge dogs, an overweight cat, and a pretty big python named Boots.
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