This Halloween special of The Wild Idea is a dramatized conversation in which host Bill Hodge performs Bob Marshall, the forester and Wilderness Society co-founder who died in 1939; it is not an archival interview. Co-host Anders Reynolds questions the character about...
Sam Forstag, former smoke jumper and Forest Service union leader running for Montana's First District, argues that federal workforce cuts that dismissed 360 Montana Forest Service employees have stripped out the institutional knowledge needed to manage wildfires...
Cam Brensinger says business can play an effective part in Washington by connecting the jobs and economic impact of natural places to the conservation case, grounding those stories in the economic value he represents. Brensinger traces NEMO's origin to a night in a...
Marshall Johnson, Chief Conservation Officer for the National Audubon Society, argues that the Conservation Ranching Program demonstrates how market-based certification can scale working lands conservation by aligning rancher livelihoods with grassland health. Johnson...
Amy Bowers Cordalis, a Yurok Tribe member, attorney, and executive director of Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group, explains how a legal and grassroots fight led to the removal of four PacifiCorp-owned hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, completed in...
Center for American Progress senior fellow Mark Haggerty and Dr. Megan Lawson of Headwaters Economics explain why rural counties with large economic output can still lose population, as automation and stagnant wages in oil and gas, timber, and agriculture leave fewer...
Fitz Cahall, founder of The Dirtbag Diaries podcast and co-founder of the storytelling studio Duct Tape Then Beer, discusses Save Public Lands, a coalition campaign he leads alongside Outdoor Alliance, The Conservation Alliance, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers,...
Jim Klug, founder and CEO of Yellow Dog Flyfishing; journalist Hal Herring, host of the Carrying the Fire podcast; and Alex Leone, executive director of the Public Land/Water Access Association (PLWA), join Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds to explain how Montana's 1985...
Christian Hunt, director of the National Wildlife Refuges and Parks Program at Defenders of Wildlife, and Kelly Cox, the program's senior policy and planning specialist, join Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds to explain how the Wildlife Corridors and Habitat Connectivity...
Adam Cramer, founding CEO of the Outdoor Alliance, a coalition of ten human-powered recreation organizations including American Whitewater, the Access Fund, and Winter Wildlands Alliance, discusses how the group organizes climbers, kayakers, mountain bikers, and...