Blending theology, ecology, and the everyday choices we make to care for the land and for one another. Faith, land, and stewardship come together in this episode with Joel Gill, Executive Director of Ferncliff, a 1,200-acre camp and conference center outside Little...
Finding joy, curiosity, and connection in a place that feels both wild and welcoming. This week on The Wild Idea, Bill and Anders sit down with Rashid Poulson and Bella Ciabattoni, the horticulture leaders at Brooklyn Bridge Park, to talk about one of New York City’s...
How do we keep advocacy joyful when the work feels exhausting? In this episode, Bill and Anders sit down with Chris Hill, CEO of the Conservation Lands Foundation, to talk about what it takes to build and sustain advocacy for America’s public lands. Chris shares her...
This Labor Day, we’re turning the spotlight on the people behind our public lands. In this bonus episode, Bill and Anders sit down with three former federal employees who thought they had found their dream jobs in service to the land and the public, only to have those...
How do we turn the scars of environmental injustice into real innovation for a healthier future? For the fourth part of our Southern Currents series, Bill talks with Josephus Allmond, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, about environmental justice...
“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...
A story of a wild river, the people who love it, and the battles they keep winning again and again. In this Southern Currents bonus episode, Bill talks with Stewart Noland, Tommie Kelly, and Martha Morris from the Ozark Society, the group that came together in 1962 to...
This week on The Wild Idea, we’re literally taking you to the Appalachian Trail. Anne Robinson joins us from Harpers Ferry, the symbolic halfway point of her 2,200-mile thru-hike, for a conversation about what happens when you step away from your desk and into the...
What happens when the companies that outfit our adventures decide to stand up for the places that make those adventures possible? This week on The Wild Idea, we’re exploring the growing power of outdoor brands to influence public land policy. We’re joined by Paul...
Promises Worth Defending Tracy Stone-Manning has spent her career at the heart of public lands policy—from field offices and statehouses to the director’s chair at the Bureau of Land Management. Now, as president of The Wilderness Society, she’s carrying that fight...