The power of combining personal stories with facts and building broad coalitions to make sure wild places stay protected. This special episode marks our first live recording, in partnership with the National Wilderness Coalition during National Wilderness Week in...
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...
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...
The path from “drive-by desert” skeptic to devoted pilgrim Josh Jackson didn’t set out to become a champion for the Bureau of Land Management. But after stumbling into BLM lands in the deserts of California, he found himself transformed, first by the landscape, and...
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...
In this bonus episode of The Wild Idea, we sit down with Jon Jarvis, the 18th Director of the National Park Service, for a wide-ranging and urgent conversation about the future of America’s public lands. Drawing on his 40-year career in the Park Service—from...
Save the Boundary Waters, Join the National Wilderness Coalition What does it take to protect one of the most visited, and most threatened, wilderness areas in America? Executive Director of Save the Boundary Waters, Ingrid Lyons, joins us to talk about the fight to...
What's Happening to the U.S. Forest Service? With environmental attorney Susan Jane Brown on timber, fire policy, and public land management In this bonus episode of The Wild Idea podcast, we explore the growing crisis inside the U.S. Forest Service—an agency...
Connecting Americans and Public Lands We're excited to welcome journalist Nate Schweber to the show! Today our conversation delves into how journalism has told the story of our public lands across the years, and Nate shares more about his recent book This America of...