A Father and Daughter Venture Into the Alaskan Wild
Aidan Campbell was 15 when she butchered a caribou at -35 degrees. Now she's 17 and she's already made three trips deep into the Alaskan wilderness with her dad, James. They describe some of their...
View ArticleTerry Tempest Williams on National Parks
Losing yourself in wilderness can also be a way of finding yourself, and one place you can do that is in our national parks. Renowned nature writer Terry Tempest Williams reflects on her love for these...
View ArticleDesert Mind
Where do you go if you want to see dinosaur footprints, ancient rock art and remote desert wilderness? There's no better place than the Grand Staircase-Escalanate National Monument in southern Utah....
View ArticleLand, Race, Memory
Nature is more than pristine meadows and eroded canyons. There's also a history of how people have shaped and sometimes fought over the land. Lauret Savoy uncovers this shadow history and the racism...
View ArticleFighting Wildland Fires
Mary Pauline Lowry has been obsessed with fire since she was a child. And she's pursued this obsession throughout her life -- by working as a member of a hotshot crew fighting wildland fires and...
View ArticleAdventures With a Bat Biologist
Biologist Merlin Tuttle has devoted his life to saving bats. As the founder of Bat Conservation International, he's gone everywhere to find rare species -- often encountering dangerous caves, crocodile...
View ArticleHelen Macdonald and "Birdle" the Parrot
Helen Macdonald's book "H is for Hawk" turned her goshawk Mabel into one of the most memorable literary characters of recent years. Mabel is no longer with her, but Helen tells Anne Strainchamps about...
View ArticleSearching for the Last Unicorn
Finding the horns of a saola - a large ox-like mammal on the Laos-Vietnam border - was one of the great biological discoveries of the 20th century. But no biologist has actually seen the saola in the...
View ArticleLiving Like A Beast
What's it like to be a badger? British naturalist Charles Foster wanted to know, so he dug a burrow and lived in the darkness, eating worms. Yup, it was kind of disgusting, but he says the experience...
View ArticleBest of 2016: Terry Tempest Williams on the Importance of National Parks
Steve here. 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of America’s beloved National Park system. I could think of no one better to reflect on the importance of national parks than one of my favorite writers,...
View ArticleHow Animals Sound in Winter
Ok, some knowledge about animals surviving winter is good. But this is radio. How do animals SOUND in winter? For that we turn to Douglas Quin. He’s an award-winning sound designer and composer., and...
View ArticleRediscovering Alexander Von Humboldt, The Largely Forgotten Father Of...
Before John Muir - even before Charles Darwin - there was Alexander von Humboldt, the German scientist who shaped our modern understanding of nature. Today, he’s largely forgotten, but Humboldt was...
View ArticleIngenuity of Animals in Winter
Depending on where you live, winter can be tough to get through. It’s cold, it gets dark early, the weather’s messy. Naturalist Bernd Heinrich shares some amazing stories about the ingeniuous ways...
View ArticleThe Reindeer People
Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who studies the Eveny or Reindeer People of Siberia. They depend on the reindeer for their survival. They keep herds of them for meat - but their connection goes...
View ArticleWomen Hunting
Writer Kim Hiss discovered her own symbiotic relationship with animals in winter. She was working as an editor for Field and Stream Magazine and it was her first hunt.
View ArticleRediscovering Alexander Von Humboldt, The Largely Forgotten Father Of...
Before John Muir - even before Charles Darwin - there was Alexander von Humboldt, the German scientist who shaped our modern understanding of nature. Today, he’s largely forgotten, but Humboldt was...
View ArticleIngenuity of Animals in Winter
Depending on where you live, winter can be tough to get through. It’s cold, it gets dark early, the weather’s messy. Naturalist Bernd Heinrich shares some amazing stories about the ingeniuous ways...
View ArticleHow Animals Sound in Winter
Ok, some knowledge about animals surviving winter is good. But this is radio. How do animals SOUND in winter? For that we turn to Douglas Quin. He’s an award-winning sound designer and composer., and...
View ArticleThe Reindeer People
Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who studies the Eveny or Reindeer People of Siberia. They depend on the reindeer for their survival. They keep herds of them for meat - but their connection goes...
View ArticleWomen Hunting
Writer Kim Hiss discovered her own symbiotic relationship with animals in winter. She was working as an editor for Field and Stream Magazine and it was her first hunt.
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