Garden City, UT: Jake Powell (USU Professor&GNAR Initiative Lead) on Rural Gateway Communities - a podcast by Dax Jacobson

In this episode, I talk to Jake Powell, a professor at Utah State University in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and a leader of the newly formed GNAR (Gateway & Natural Amenity Region) Initiative. Jake and I talk about his background in the rural West and what led him to the GNAR Initiative. We talk about what the GNAR Initiative is all about and the work Jake and his colleagues are doing to help gateway communities “prepare for and respond to planning, development, natural resource management, and public policy challenges”. (Spoiler alert: 60% of rural Intermountain West communities are gateway communities). We end, as always, with the Road Trip Music Question.

Podcast music: “A Happy Day” by codemusic, http://www.jamendo.com, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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