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...
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...
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...
Andrew Mergen, faculty director of Harvard Law School's Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and a 33-year veteran of public lands litigation at the Department of Justice, and Justin Pidot, a University of Arizona law professor and former general counsel of the...
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...
Gregg Treinish, who founded Adventure Scientists in 2011 after a 7,800-mile trek along the spine of the Andes, and Lara Birkes, the organization's executive director as of 2026, discuss how the group trains outdoor athletes to collect scientific data on issues...
A message of hope rooted in action, collaboration, and the fact that the technical solutions we need already exist Dr. Erica Smithwick, a distinguished professor of geography at Penn State University and director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, joins...
What matters most is that forests continue to function for people, wildlife, and the climate. Dr. William Keeton is a forest ecologist and silviculturalist at the University of Vermont who has spent most of his career studying old-growth forests in the eastern United...