Hank Vogler on Rural Jobs, Drought, and Government Overreach
9/21/2026 Shows ↗ (Jump To Original Content)
Nevada's Hank Vogler joins Trent Loos on Rural Route to expose the challenges facing rural America. Hank shares what he saw at his 60-year high school reunion, where a closed mill shows how the forest industry and thousands of jobs vanished. They explore how farm technology, the Great Depression, and Prohibition shaped American agriculture. Hank also explains how a severe drought in San Jacinto is draining water supplies, forcing ranchers to move livestock and threatening higher food prices. They debate boom-and-bust resource extraction, solar farms, and how the BLM and Forest Service use endangered species listings to restrict land use.
