On this episode of Homegrown Economies, Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce CEO/President Carrie Hamblen talks with Patrick Nolan, the Executive Director of the Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks.  Patrick talks about the programs the Friends oversees, working to support the permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, how important the outdoors have been to communities as they deal with the isolation during COVID, and how our next Secretary of Interior will change the landscape of managing our public lands in historical ways.