Ryan Johnston, a fly fishing guide of 24 years and founder of the youth mentorship nonprofit Cast Hope, discusses guiding the South Fork of the Snake River in Idaho and Wyoming and, more recently, Montana's Flathead Valley. He explains how Cast Hope, which he founded...
Brooks Lamb, Special Advisor for Strategic Communications at American Farmland Trust and author of Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place, explains why more than 300 million acres of American farmland, roughly a third of the nation's agricultural...
Journalist Heather Hansman, author of Downriver and Powder Days, discusses her new book Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild, which profiles Grand Canyon river guide Georgie White, Adirondack wilderness biologist Anne...
Paul Hendricks, executive director of The Conservation Alliance; Jen McLaren, global brand president of Altra; and Dawn Mancini Moyer, regional sustainability manager at Fjällräven, join Bill and Anders for a live panel recorded at Switchback Spring 2026, the outdoor...
Meryl Harrell, former Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment at USDA and a leader at Friends of the Forest Service, and Lisa Ronald, Western Montana Associate Conservation Director at American Rivers and co-founder of the Wild and Scenic Rivers...
Dillon Osleger is a geologist, conservationist, and trail builder whose debut book, Trail Work: Restoring the Paths and Stories of America's Public Lands (Heyday, 2026), argues that trails are not neutral infrastructure but agreements between people and places, and...
A close look at what protecting 219 miles of wild river actually requires. The Three Forks of the Flathead River in northwest Montana didn't just earn Wild and Scenic designation — they inspired the law that made it possible. In the 1950s, a proposed dam at Spruce...
What it takes to keep wild places healthy and accessible for generations to come Kaitlin de Varona is the executive director of Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards (SAWS), the nonprofit that has spent more than a decade building a community of skilled, committed...
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...
What makes this Georgia barrier island so extraordinary and what forces are working to reshape it. Cumberland Island National Seashore is one of the most ecologically rich and historically layered landscapes on the American East Coast, and it faces a pivotal moment....