Alpinist Conrad Anker, who discovered George Mallory's remains on Everest in 1999 and completed the first ascent of Meru's Shark's Fin, discusses how decades in the world's highest mountain ranges shaped his conservation views. He describes firsthand observations of...
Theodore Roosevelt IV, great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and a board member of The Wilderness Society, discusses threats facing Alaska's public lands, drawing on personal experience camping on the Kongakut River and paddling Southeast Alaska's coast. He...
“Our collective love for these places is pulling the work through our boots and through our hands.” - Sam Evans In this Southern Currents episode, Bill traveled back to Southern Appalachia nearly a year after Hurricane Helene, a storm that reshaped the region’s...
Tracing the interconnected threads of land, water, loss, and resilience in the Gulf South In this first installment of our special Southern Currents series, Bill travels the Gulf Coast (sadly, without Anders) to explore the crisis of coastal land loss and the role of...
Part travelogue, part meditation on modern wilderness, and part love letter to the wild waters of Alaska. This week on The Wild Idea, we climb aboard the BOB, a 50-foot Catalina sailboat, with Blain and Monique Anderson—a husband-and-wife team navigating the remote...
Dr. Cristina Eisenberg, a forest ecologist with a PhD in Forestry and Wildlife and former Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence at Oregon State University's College of Forestry, argues that both extractive and strict preservationist approaches to forest management...
The Uncertainty Inherent in Wilderness What do frozen frogs, machine learning, roadkill, and wilderness ethics have in common? According to evolutionary ecologist Dr. Andis Arietta…everything. In this wide-ranging and mind-expanding conversation, Andis joins us to...