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The Wild Idea podcast is one of the greatest tools of insight and information, wisdom and compelling storytelling, we have as public lands advocates and lovers of the wild. Bill and Anders are smart and caring hosts. They keep us current on the issues we care about by letting us in on conversations with guests who are on the front lines. I am a fan —If there is something deeper than hope, The Wild Idea is it — A collective call to engage.
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Grounded in research, science, and the lived experiences of communities connected to wild landscapes.
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We ask questions rather than preach, inviting exploration and discovery of our complex relationship with nature.
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Stories that move hearts and minds toward meaningful conservation and civic engagement.
The Wild Idea Podcast
Conversations with scientists, activists, writers, and stewards exploring what it means to live in relationship with the natural world.
Episode 51: Terry Tempest Williams: Wildness, Ancestors, and the Holy Ordinary
What do we owe the land that shaped us? Terry Tempest Williams on wildness, ancestry, and finding the sacred in the ordinary.
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Episode 48: Peter Metcalf and Terry Tatsey: Blackfeet Nation Stewardship and a Living Landscape in the Badger–Two Medicine
The Badger-Two Medicine is sacred to the Blackfeet and long coveted by industry. Peter Metcalf and Terry Tatsey on defending a living landscape.
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Episode 18: Cristina Eisenberg: Humility as a Tool for Protection and Stewardship
Protecting a landscape starts with humility. Ecologist Cristina Eisenberg on braiding Indigenous knowledge and Western science into how we steward the wild.
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Episode 54: The Past, Present and Future of The Roadless Rule
For 25 years one rule has kept millions of acres of national forest wild and road-free. This panel unpacks the fight over its past, present, and future
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