In this special episode, The Wild Idea brings its recent public webinar directly to podcast listeners. Join a high-powered panel of scientists, attorneys, policy veterans, and conservation advocates to examine one of the most consequential federal land protection...
Creating an alternative marketplace that reconnects producers, consumers, and landscapes across the American West. In this milestone 50th episode of The Wild Idea, Bill and Anders sit down in Helena, Montana, at The Union restaurant with rancher and entrepreneur Cole...
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...
In this special remastered conversation, The Wild Idea revisits a timely and essential discussion about one of America’s most important conservation tools: the Roadless Rule. As the rule approaches its 25th anniversary, hosts Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds reintroduce...
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...