The Wild Idea Podcast
What is The Wild Idea?
Humans have been part of Earth’s natural cycle for 300,000 years, with brains much the same as ours for the past 100,000 or so. What’s evolved isn’t our biology but how we understand our place in the natural world. As small populations grew into communities and then into societies, we created cultural, religious, and legal frameworks to help explain and define our connection to the rest of life on Earth.
How did we come to see our relationship with wild places the way we do?
Is that relationship thriving—or falling apart?
And where could it, and should it, go from here?
These are the questions we’re excited to explore with you on this journey.
Explore All Our Episodes
Susan Jane Brown: The (Troubled) Future of the United States Forest Service
Susan Jane Brown joins us in this special bonus episode to explore the recent government actions impacting the U.S. Forest Service.
Corina Newsome: The Wild All Around Us
Corina Newsome joins Anders Reynolds and Bill Hodge to talk about conservation, environmental equity, and finding the wild all around us.
Nate Schweber: Public Lands History That Rhymes
Journalist Nate Schweber joins The Wild Idea co-hosts Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds to discuss Bernard DeVoto and the history of public lands in America.
Hal Herring: Tailgate Conservation
Hal Herring talks conservation, wilderness, and his outdoor career with Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds on The Wild Idea Podcast.
Bill Hodge & Anders Reynolds: The Icebreaker
Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds discuss the intersection of human nature and wild nature on Episode One of The Wild Idea podcast.