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The Wild Idea is an exploration of the intersection of wild nature and our own human nature. The hosts, Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds, through conversations with experts and thought leaders will dive into the ways that humans have both embraced and impact the function and vitality of our remaining wild places.
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- Bob Marshall: The Haunting of Bill’s House · 31 dk · Bölüm 84It's Halloween week, and Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds are in the same room in Missoula with a Ouija board. Within minutes, Bill is performing the ghost of Bob Marshall, the…
- Sam Forstag: Smoke Jumping, Union Organizing, and the Fight for Montana’s First District · 35 dk · Bölüm 83Sam Forstag spent eight years on the fire line, four of them as a smoke jumper, before he organized the response when the federal government cut the people who manage wildfires…
- Cam Brensinger: NEMO’s Road from a Bivy Bag on Mount Washington to Recyclable Gear · 43 dk · Bölüm 82Cam Brensinger sewed a prototype from a bicycle inner tube after a bivy bag failed him on Mount Washington: this conversation explores what a gear maker owes the ground its…
- Marshall Johnson: Conservation Ranching and the Birds That Depend on It · 37 dk · Bölüm 81Marshall Johnson, Chief Conservation Officer for the National Audubon Society, joins Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds to discuss how the Conservation Ranching Program aligns…
- Amy Bowers Cordalis: Indigenous-Led Conservation and the Salmon That Came Home · 55 dk · Bölüm 80Amy Bowers Cordalis is a Yurok Tribe member, attorney, and executive director of Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group. She helped lead the fight to remove four dams…
- Mark Haggerty & Megan Lawson: The Economics of Public Lands and Rural Prosperity · 49 dk · Bölüm 79Some of the highest-output rural counties in the country are losing population, even as public lands get pitched as the answer to everything from housing to the national debt…
- Fitz Cahall: The Million-Signature Push to Save Public Lands · 50 dk · Bölüm 78Fitz Cahall has spent nearly twenty years telling other people's outdoor stories as the host of The Dirtbag Diaries. Now he's leading one himself: Save Public Lands, a coalition…
- Jim Klug, Hal Herring & Alex Leone: River Access Is Not a Spectator Sport · 47 dk · Bölüm 77In most Western states, wading a river through private land can get you arrested for trespassing. In Montana, it can't, and three guests join Bill and Anders to explain why. Jim…
- Christian Hunt & Kelly Cox: Can Wildlife Corridors Cross DC's Political Divide? · 41 dk · Bölüm 76Parks and refuges were built to protect wildlife, but many function as islands, and the species that depend on them can't always survive within borders drawn decades before…
- Adam Cramer: How Outdoor Recreation Became a Conservation Coalition · 46 dk · Bölüm 75Adam Cramer co-founded and now leads the Outdoor Alliance, a coalition of ten organizations, including American Whitewater, the Access Fund, and Winter Wildlands Alliance, that…
- Dan Puskar: DC's Own National Park · 50 dk · Bölüm 74Dan Puskar, executive director of the Rock Creek Conservancy, introduces listeners to Rock Creek Park, the 1,754-acre national park running through the heart of Washington, DC…
- Ryan Johnston: Building Cast Hope Through the Sport of Fly Fishing · 49 dk · Bölüm 73Ryan Johnston has spent 24 years as a fly fishing guide, working rivers in California and Idaho and now Montana's Flathead Valley. In this episode, he shares stories from his…
- Andy Mergen & Justin Pidot: How Do We Make Public Lands More Public? · 1 sa 8 dk · Bölüm 72Please take our listener survey! We'd love to hear from you. Are America's public lands getting more public, or less? Two of the sharpest legal minds in the field join Bill and…
- The Wild Line: DOGE Cuts Exacerbate Wildfire, Interior Cancels Endangered Species Protections, and Alaska Judge Dismisses Dalton Highway Suit · 10 dkThis week, a Senate committee drops most of its wilderness, national park, and wild and scenic river bills in favor of energy permitting measures, a federal judge in Anchorage…
- Lynn Scarlett & Matt Lee-Ashley: Can We Rewrite the Rules of Public Lands Policy? · 52 dk · Bölüm 71What would it take to rewrite the rules of American conservation? Lynn Scarlett, former Deputy Secretary of the Interior, and Matt Lee-Ashley, Executive Director of Ground Shift…
- The Wild Line: Proposed NHPA Changes Undermine Tribes, Administration Targets Chaco Canyon, Okefenokee Makes Bid for UNESCO Designation · 20 dkThis week, proposed federal rules would gut tribal consultation and historic-preservation protections under the National Historic Preservation Act, and the Trump Administration…
- Brooks Lamb: Land, Legacy, and Who Comes Next · 57 dk · Bölüm 70Brooks Lamb has spent his career trying to answer a hard question: who will own rural America? As Special Advisor for Strategic Communications at American Farmland Trust, Lamb…
- The Wild Line: Trump Guts Utah Monuments, Admin Rewrites 'Harm,' Red Wolves Recover as Grizzlies and Whales are Targeted · 24 dkThis week, President Trump signs executive orders cutting Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments by nearly 3 million acres combined, over tribal leaders'…
- Heather Hansman: Fierce Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild · 42 dk · Bölüm 69For decades, the story of American conservation has been told almost entirely through male protagonists: Thoreau, Muir, Abbey. Journalist and author Heather Hansman joins The…
- The Wild Line: A New Tracker for Public Land Comment Periods, Eastern States Invest in Wildlife Crossings, and Forest Service Retirees Join Suit to Stop Reorg · 18 dkThis week, the Bureau of Land Management proposes its first grazing rule overhaul since 1995, covering 155 million acres of Western public land and sharply limiting public…
