The Wild Idea Podcast
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David Gessner: Roosevelt, Resistance and Reclaiming the Wild
Celebrated author David Gessner joins Anders Reynolds and Bill Hodge on The Wild Idea Podcast to talk about his career, writers who inspired him, and the paradox of land management.
Tim Manley: Grizzlies, Conflict, and Coexistence
Grizzly bear biologist Tim Manley joins Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds on The Wild Idea podcast.
Drew Lanham: The Wild We Inherit, The Wild We Imagine
Dr. J. Drew Lanham—ornithologist, ecologist, naturalist, poet, professor, mentor, author, and all-around Southern sage—joins us for a conversation about what it means to belong to a place, and who gets to decide what counts as “wild”?
Greg Aplet: Forests, Fire, and What is Wild
Greg Aplet joins us to discuss forest fires and how they impact spaces both wild and human. We cover legislation and governmental actions, the costs and benefits of allowing fires to burn, the after-effects of the Smoky Bear campaign, and how we can further the conversation between everyone impacted by logging, forest fires, and the ecology of the wilderness.
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.
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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.
