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...
Erik Murdock, Deputy Director of Programs, Policy & Government Affairs at the Access Fund, traces nearly 30 years of federal policy on fixed anchors in wilderness, from the Forest Service’s first negotiated rulemaking in 1999 to Joshua Tree National...
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,...
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...
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...
