Jaime Loucky, CEO of Washington Trails Association since 2022, traces the organization's six-decade history from Louise Marshall's 1966 kitchen-table newsletter, Signpost, to a nonprofit generating 160,000 volunteer trail hours a year. He explains WTA's "flywheel...
Organizing, advocacy, and the kind of power that's still available to regular people when they decide to use it. Dalton George is the mayor of Boone, North Carolina and the national organizing director for the Endangered Species Coalition. He came up through community...
How do we make sure every child has meaningful access to the outdoors? In this episode, Bill and Anders sit down with two researchers and advocates who are reshaping how we think about nature and public health: Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, President and CEO of the...
The strongest protection you can give land is to protect it in law. Tim Mahoney has spent five decades navigating the corridors of Congress on behalf of wild places. A veteran of The Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, and the Pew Charitable Trusts, he is one of the...
January is Roadless Month on The Wild Idea. Throughout the month, we’re exploring the landscapes, communities, and ideas shaped by America’s roadless public lands — and what’s at stake as these protections face renewed threats. Why? Because decisions being discussed...
January is Roadless Month on The Wild Idea. Throughout the month, we’re exploring the landscapes, communities, and ideas shaped by America’s roadless public lands — and what’s at stake as these protections face renewed threats. Why? Because decisions being discussed...
A thoughtful meditation on why the stories we tell matter. As the year comes to a close, Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds are joined by Michelle Fullner, host of the Golden State Naturalist podcast, for a reflective and wide-ranging conversation about growth, attention,...
Stewarding landscapes meant to last generations. Sarah Francisco, Virginia State Director of the Southern Environmental Law Center, joins The Wild Idea for a wide-ranging conversation about place, promise, and the long arc of public lands conservation in the southern...
The things that hold us steady during a loud season, and the small rituals that help you feel connected. This week ushers in “The Holidays”, the time of year that chaos and connection reign supreme. Thanksgiving is complicated, especially for Native communities, and...
What does it mean to hold on to hope after history has shown us how easily good causes can go astray? Environmental historian Frank Uekötter joins Bill and Anders for a thought-provoking conversation about how good intentions and bad systems can collide, and what...