WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE: Recent Episodes
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Denver Holt is Founder & President of Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Montana, about 20 miles south of Flathead Lake. Today, it is one of the premier owl research centers in the world. Denver has published numerous scientific papers and is a widely published author who has been featured in many articles from National Geographic to the New York Times, as well as in many television programs. He has educated and entertained people from all walks of life. This the the second half of our one hour interview.
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Denver Holt is Founder & President of Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Montana, about 20 miles south of Flathead Lake. Today, it is one of the premier owl research centers in the world. Denver has published numerous scientific papers and is a widely published author who has been featured in many articles from National Geographic to the New York Times, as well as in many television programs. He has educated and entertained people from all walks of life.
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Karen Garthwait is Acting Public Affairs Specialist for Canyonlands. Karen has been an Interpretation park ranger with the NPS since 2004 and stationed here in Moab for 18 years, starting out as a Park Guide giving walks and talks, then supervising Park Guide teams and interns, and now overseeing the park’s media work and exhibit projects. Canyonlands National Park is in Southeastern Utah. Established in 1964, it preserves over 500 square miles of high-desert country through which flow the Green & Colorado rivers. This is Part 2 of a one-hour interview.
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Karen Garthwait, is Acting Public Affairs Specialist for Canyonlands. Karen has been an Interpretation park ranger with the NPS since 2004 and stationed here in Moab for 18 years, starting out as a Park Guide giving walks and talks, then supervising Park Guide teams and interns, and now overseeing the park’s media work and exhibit projects. Canyonlands National Park is in Southeastern Utah. Established in 1964, it preserves over 500 square miles of high-desert country through which flow the Green & Colorado rivers.
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Ryan Trimbath, a Biologist at Cuyahoga Valley National Park where he has worked for the last eight years. Prior to working for the NPS, Ryan got a degree in Wildlife & Conservation Biology from Ohio University (2007) then traveled around the country working as a field biologist on various research projects. During this time, he honed his skills as a field biologist and pursued his interests in forest and avian ecology. Ryan has the honor of being the only Ornithologist to ever hold a living Northern Parula x Cerulean Warbler hybrid which he discovered at Deep Lock Quarry in 2014, with a second bird found at Oak Hill in 2015. You can read more about this discovery in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology “Evidence for hybridization between Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) and Cerulean warbler (S. cerulea)” (Trimbath et al. 2019).
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Ryan Trimbath, a Biologist at Cuyahoga Valley National Park where he has worked for the last eight years. Prior to working for the NPS, Ryan got a degree in Wildlife & Conservation Biology from Ohio University (2007) then traveled around the country working as a field biologist on various research projects. During this time, he honed his skills as a field biologist and pursued his interests in forest and avian ecology. Ryan has the honor of being the only Ornithologist to ever hold a living Northern Parula x Cerulean Warbler hybrid which he discovered at Deep Lock Quarry in 2014, with a second bird found at Oak Hill in 2015. You can read more about this discovery in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology “Evidence for hybridization between Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) and Cerulean warbler (S. cerulea)” (Trimbath et al. 2019).
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Jay interviews Jihadda Govan, the Monument Manager of Sand to Snow National Monument in Southern California which encompasses 154,000 acres and is co-managed by the Bureau of Land Management (83,000 acres) and U.S. Forest Service (71,000 acres). Jihadda holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic University, Humboldt, where she studied wildlife management with an emphasis in ornithology, botany, and environmental planning. She grew up in the Pasadena/Altadena areas, where she spent time hiking and exploring in the San Gabriel Mountains which sparked her love of the outdoors. Jihadda has previously worked as a wildland firefighter, wildlife biologist, and wildlife refuge and preserve manager.
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Jay talks to Jessica Karjala about Footloose Montana and her efforts to end trapping in Montana. Mrs. Karjala served in the Montana Legislature in the House of Representatives for 8 years. The first bill she sponsored defined capture, spay/neuter, return programs from trapping, and Footloose Montana supported the bill. She fought alongside other Democrats against legislation to increase wolf quotas, bills to allow silencers on rifles when hunting, spotlight hunting, hound hunting, to name a few. At the end of her first term, Jessica was selected by House leadership to represent Montana at the National Conference of State Legislatures at a National Summit. In her 3rd session, Jessica passed legislation to appropriate millions of dollars to provide grant funding for suicide prevention for which she was honored alongside Senator Tester with the Impact Award by the Montana Conference on Suicide Prevention. Jessica was also selected as one of 20 lawmakers nationwide to participate in a fellowship with The Lawmaker Network. Prior to serving in the Legislature Jessica worked in the finance and investment industry, as a small business owner, and in the nonprofit sector. Jessica has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Montana with minor studies in Spanish and Nonprofit Administration. She resides in the Bitterroot Valley with her husband and 2 dogs who all hope to live within the city of Missoula within the next year. Jessica enjoys spending time with her daughters, stepsons, and grandson and enjoys hiking, camping, floating and skiing.
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Jay is joined by Rick McIntyre, a Wolf Researcher in Yellowstone National Park. No one has spent more time observing and documenting wild wolves than retired National Park Ranger Rick McIntyre, who has watched wolves in America’s national parks for more than forty years—twenty-six of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 sightings. McIntyre is the author of the ongoing “Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone” series, including The Rise of Wolf 8, The Reign of Wolf 21, The Redemption of Wolf 302, and the just published Alpha Female Wolf. He is currently at work on a fifth book titled Thinking Like A Wolf, due out in October 2024. He is the recipient of numerous book awards, including an Amazon Best Science Book of the Year. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana, just outside of the NE Park entrance.
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Jay is joined by Rick McIntyre, a Wolf Researcher in Yellowstone National Park. No one has spent more time observing and documenting wild wolves than retired National Park Ranger Rick McIntyre, who has watched wolves in America’s national parks for more than forty years—twenty-six of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 sightings. McIntyre is the author of the ongoing “Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone” series, including The Rise of Wolf 8, The Reign of Wolf 21, The Redemption of Wolf 302, and the just published Alpha Female Wolf. He is currently at work on a fifth book titled Thinking Like A Wolf, due out in October 2024. He is the recipient of numerous book awards, including an Amazon Best Science Book of the Year. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana, just outside of the NE Park entrance.
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Michael Kellett is the co-founder and Executive Director of RESTORE: The North Woods. Michael has over 35 years of experience in the land conservation movement. In 1994, he wrote the first white paper proposing a 3.2 million-acre Maine Woods National Park & Preserve, and has been actively involved in efforts to restore the endangered wildlife such as the eastern wolf, Atlantic salmon, and Canada lynx; to protect federal and state public lands from unsustainable logging and development; and to revive the national parks movement. From 1986 to 1992, he was the Northeast Director and Michigan Representative of The Wilderness Society, where he helped to pass national forest wilderness and national recreation area legislation and developed a proposal for a Maine Woods National Reserve. Michael has served on the board of American Lands Alliance, Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance, Thoreau Farm Trust, and Walden Forever Wild. He has visited 258 National Park System units across America. He lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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Amy Lewis is Chief Executive Officer of the WILD Foundation. For more than two decades Amy has worked as a social movement scholar and practitioner in the environmental and human rights sectors. In 2015, she brought a unique, social science approach to the WILD Foundation, first as its development officer, and later as its vice president of policy and communications, adding to her existing knowledge and insights about building effective social movements while working on wilderness policy processes in places as far-flung as India and China and as close-to-home as the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Amy is committed to building global support for the protection of Half of Earth’s lands and seas while also strengthening and expanding the land tenure of Indigenous Peoples, nature’s best guardians.
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Michael Kellett is the co-founder and Executive Director of RESTORE: The North Woods. Michael has over 35 years of experience in the land conservation movement. In 1994, he wrote the first white paper proposing a 3.2 million-acre Maine Woods National Park & Preserve, and has been actively involved in efforts to restore the endangered wildlife such as the eastern wolf, Atlantic salmon, and Canada lynx; to protect federal and state public lands from unsustainable logging and development; and to revive the national parks movement. From 1986 to 1992, he was the Northeast Director and Michigan Representative of The Wilderness Society, where he helped to pass national forest wilderness and national recreation area legislation and developed a proposal for a Maine Woods National Reserve. Michael has served on the board of American Lands Alliance, Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance, Thoreau Farm Trust, and Walden Forever Wild. He has visited 258 National Park System units across America. He lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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Amy Lewis is Chief Executive Officer of the WILD Foundation. For more than two decades Amy has worked as a social movement scholar and practitioner in the environmental and human rights sectors. In 2015, she brought a unique, social science approach to the WILD Foundation, first as its development officer, and later as its vice president of policy and communications, adding to her existing knowledge and insights about building effective social movements while working on wilderness policy processes in places as far-flung as India and China and as close-to-home as the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Amy is committed to building global support for the protection of Half of Earth’s lands and seas while also strengthening and expanding the land tenure of Indigenous Peoples, nature’s best guardians.
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Eric talks about seeing Orcas, Humpback Whales and other marine animals in the Salish Sea, NW of Seattle - and the regulations regarding whale watching. A very informative program: a two-part interview
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Erin is Executive Director of the Pacific Whale Watch Association and a trained marine biologist. She. continues her very informative discussion of the marine life found in the Salish Sea and the regulations whale watchers much observe.
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Jay is joined by Maureen McGee-Bollinger and Blake McGann, officials at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. They discuss the park, its features, and its management.
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Jay interviews Scott Anderson, a ranger in Rainier National Park. Scott is one of the park’s biological science technicians. He graduated from the University of Washington and has since worked for the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service, the University of Washington, and the University of Oregon.
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Jay has a two-part interview with Sean O’Brien, the CEO of NatureServe, based in Arlington, VA. NatureServ monitors data about wildlife all across the country. This is part 1.
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ay has a two-part interview with Sean O’Brien, the CEO of NatureServe, based in Arlington, VA. NatureServ collects and monitors wildlife data all across the U.S. This is Part 2
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Jay does a two-part interview with Myles Traphagen, the Borderlands Program Coordinator for the Wildlands Network. Myles keeps tabs on the Border Wall that has been partially completed along the 1954 border with Mexico. In these two interviews, he talks about the consequences in the region of the Border Wall and its effects on wildlife and plant life all along the border – and the efforts of Wildlands Network and other allied NGOs, tribal groups and communities to reverse these effects. This is Part 1.
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Jay does a two-part interview with Myles Traphagen, the Borderlands Program Coordinator for the Wildlands Network. Myles keeps tabs on the Border Wall that has been partially completed along the 1954 border with Mexico. In these two interviews, he talks about the consequences in the region of the Border Wall and its effects on wildlife and plant life all along the border – and the efforts of Wildlands Network and other allied NGOs, tribal groups and communities to reverse these effects.
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Jay is joined by George Nickas, policy coordinator for Wilderness Watch. George joined the organization in 1996. Prior to Wilderness Watch, George served 11 years as a natural resource specialist and assistant coordinator for the Utah Wilderness Association. George is regularly invited to make presentations at national wilderness conferences, agency training sessions, and other gatherings where wilderness protection is discussed. This is Part 2 of a September interview.
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Jay is joined by George Nickas, policy coordinator for Wilderness Watch. George joined the organization in 1996. Prior to Wilderness Watch, George served 11 years as a natural resource specialist and assistant coordinator for the Utah Wilderness Association. George is regularly invited to make presentations at national wilderness conferences, agency training sessions, and other gatherings where wilderness protection is discussed. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview series.
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Jay talks today with Marianna Trevino Wright, Executive Director of the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas. Marianna Wright grew up at a time when Cabbage Whites and Coral snakes were commonplace in south Texas. She is fervent in her desire to protect the special creatures and features peculiar to that area near the Rio Grande. As executive director of the National Butterfly Center, on the U.S.-Mexico border, she currently manages almost 500 acres of land in restoration and preservation on behalf of the North American Butterfly Association. Her fierce determination to protect access to a once-vibrant recreational waterway and the only source of freshwater for 6 million people, along with public and private green space, threatened and endangered species, and the integrity of a critical migration corridor were recognized by the Defenders of Wildlife with their Spirit of Defenders Award for Conservation Advocacy. A graduate of Columbia University and mother of six, she seeks to preserve the beauty and diversity of this land for generations to come.
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George Wuerthner, ecologist, writer and photographer, and former hunting guide, has just returned from an exploratory trip to Alaska, checking out a proposed mining development project and road near the Kobuk River in the north part of the state. The access road required would intrude on wilderness and national park land. George has previously been a guest on Wilderness & Wildlife. He writes frequently about wildlife, deforestation and wildfire.
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Jay interviews Bob DeGross, Superintendent of Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota. Bob studied forestry and natural resource management at Fox Valley College in Appleton, Wisconsin and has been a Park Service Ranger at Mammoth Cave, Everglades and Big Cypress National Parks and came to Voyageurs in 2016. In this interview, he talks about the wolves, moose, lynx and beaver that can be found at Voyageurs and the great campgrounds that are enjoyed by campers when not paddling across the many lakes in the Park.
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Jerry Emory's latest book is about George Meléndez Wright, the first wildlife biologist for the National Park Service in the 1930s. Following research and work based out of both Latin America and the Western U.S. in the 1980s, Jerry spent a year at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galápagos Islands and an equivalent amount of time in the Brazilian Pantanal for grad work. He became a professional writer and communications consultant. Jerry worked at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in San Francisco in the early 2000s followed by 10 years at the California State Parks Foundation. A graduate of Stanford and U.C. Berkeley, he lives with his family in Mill Valley, California.
Jerry has written dozens of magazine articles on the environment, conservation and science with a focus on Latin America and the Western U.S. He is the author of 5 books, including the San Francisco Bay Shoreline Guide and the Monterey Bay Shoreline Guide, and has served twice as a board member of The George Wright Society.
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George Wuerthner is an ecologist, writer, photographer who has He recently published an article about the need to expand Yellowstone National Park to embrace the much larger Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. George has studied, written about, and photographed natural habitats in many American locales, especially the mountains of the eastern U.S., the lake region of Minnesota, the Sierras, the Cascades, and the Rocky Mountains of the west. Holds degrees from the University of Montana and University of California Santa Cruz, and graduate work at MSU and U of Oregon. He’s worked in many places in the U.S., border to border, and he specializes in studying predators. He is the author of 38 books and innumerable articles.
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George Wuerthner, an ecologist, writer, photographer who has He recently published an article about the need to expand Yellowstone National Park to embrace the much larger Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. George has studied, written about, and photographed natural habitats in many American locales, especially the mountains of the eastern U.S., the lake region of Minnesota, the Sierras, the Cascades, and the Rocky Mountains of the west. Holds degrees from the University of Montana and University of California Santa Cruz, and graduate work at MSU and U of Oregon. He’s worked in many places in the U.S., border to border, and he specializes in studying predators. He is the author of 38 books and innumerable articles.
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Jenny Waddell is Research Coordinator at Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary at her office in Port Angeles, Washington. Jenny has been with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) since 2001 and with Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary since 2016. Her background is in marine conservation science, and she holds a Master’s degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. She talks about the coastal responsibility of the OCNMS in the area which it monitors in the Strait of Juan DeFuca.
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Leonel Arguello, the Deputy Superintendent at Redwoods National Park is Jay's guest in this second half of the interview. He has been in that position for four months, but he worked for the National Park Service at Redwood National Park for many years. Prior to the current position, he worked in the Resource Management Science Division. He earned his Masters degree in Botany at Humboldt State University.
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Jay is joined by Leonel Arguello, the Deputy Superintendent at Redwoods National Park. He has been in that position for four months, but he worked for the National Park Service at Redwood National Park for many years. Prior to the current position, he worked in the Resource Management Science Division. He earned his Masters degree in Botany at Humboldt State University.
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Jay is joined by Dr. Rick Toomey, cave resource management specialist and research coordinator at Mammoth Cave National Park, about the flora and fauna and distinctive features at the Park.
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Lisa Bate is a Wildlife Biologist for the National Park Service in West Glacier, Montana. She specializes in the monitoring of birds and bats in the Park and in northern Montana. A graduate of the University of Idaho, she operated her own wildlife consulting business for several years before joining the National Park Service. This is a two-part series; the first part discusses birds in Glacier and the second is about Glacier’s bats.
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In this interview, Supt. Sholly talks about the currrent status of wildlife in Yellowstone following the 2022 flooding and the slaughter of more than a thousand bison during the winter of 2023.
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Supt. Sholly talks about the devastating rainfall & flods during the Spring of 2022, the washout of the roads and the success of road repair in record time.
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Noel talks about the oceanic depths and the temperature and tidal changes he observes as he researches the oceans of the world.
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Barbara is author of the newly released book “Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild”, Barbara discusses animal emotion and cognition, the ethics of our relationships with animals, and the evolutionary history of language, culture, and religion. Her book “How Animals Grieve” has been translated into 7 languages, and her TED talk on animal love and grief has now received over 3 million views.
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Jay talks with Mitch Doherty, the conservation director for Vital Ground. Vital Ground’s Land and Conservation Program focuses on habitat protection and stewardship projects that encompass the Northern Continental Divide, Selkirk, Cabinet-Yaak, Bitterroot, Yellowstone and North Cascades ecosystems.
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Jay talks with Lucas Rhoads. As a staff attorney within NRDC‘s Wildlife Division, Lucas works to protect bees and other pollinators from a wide range of threats, including pesticide use, habitat destruction, and climate change. He advocates at both the federal and state levels for policies that protect these vital species—while employing litigation to enhance and enforce existing protections.
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As the Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator, Chris talks about coordinating all the research and management on grizzly bears in the lower 48 states and working closely with grizzly biologists in Alberta and British Columbia. Servheen wrote the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan and was the EIS Team Leader for the Bitterroot Grizzly Bear Reintroduction EIS and was responsible for the delisting rule for the Yellowstone grizzly population in 2007, and he drafted the delisting rule in 2016 prior to his retirement.
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Derek Goldman is National Field Director and Northern Rockies Field Representative for the Endangered Species Coalition, based in Washington, D.C. Derek has worked with the Endangered Species Coalition since 2005. He has advocated and organized primarily around gray wolf and grizzly bear issues, in addition to other species issues in the region.
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Solar energy installations need to be located in places that will not interrupt wildlife habitat and movement. Michael Dax and Aaron Facka, scientists with Wildlands Network, are working in the Four Corners area of the SW to identify locations that will not impact wildlife.
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Catherine is a former national park ranger at Glacier, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Voyageurs, and Yellowstone national parks. She earned a PhD in biology from Montana State University, holds degrees in zoology and botany from the University of Montana, and is a member of American Mensa and Sigma Xi. Her natural history essays have appeared in American Scientist, Journal of American Mensa, Montana Magazine, Narrative Magazine, and National Geographic Traveler.
Fox and I: an Uncommon Friendship was listed as one of 2021’s best books by the Christian Science Monitor.
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Hanem Abouelezz is Wildlife Biologist for Wide Ranging Species Conservation for the National Park Service. She is based in Colorado and recently transferred from Rocky Mountain National Park where for several years she had studied Elk and Beaver impacts on Vegetation.
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Justin Schwabedissen is the Bear Biologist for Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Here he talks about his work with Grizzlies and Black Bear in the Park.
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Stephen Capra describes the cruelty of trapping and his group's efforts to end trapping in Montana.
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Stephen Capra is Executive Director of Footloose Montana which is working to end trapping activity in Montana. In this interview, Stephen describes the cruelty and abuses of trapping wildlife and the dangers it poses to pets and even humans. This is an effort that has been waged for at least a decade with frustrating results because of a small community of trappers and a recalcitrant legislature and Governor. An incipient initiative campaign faces a tought opposition, funded by outside interests.
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This interview is with Susan Holmes, Conservation advocate who has worked for over 25 years to protect wildlife and wild places. For the last ten years, she has worked as a lobbyist in Washington, DC, most recently for the Wildlands Network where she promoted legislation and policies to safeguard wildlife habitat and corridors, endangered species, and landscape connectivity across America. She currently serves as the Chair of the Board of the Endangered Species Coalition., based in Washington, D.C.
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Miachael and Arron are based in the Southwest (Santa Fe) and are beginning work on a report that will evaluate various sites proposed for solar power generation and their impacts on wildlife, most especially Pronghorn. Michael is author of Grizzly West, a book about efforts to reintroduce Grizzlies to the Selway-Biotterroot Wilderness. Aaron is a Ph.D. in Zoology and has worked for a variety of state agnecies on diverse vertebrate species and their habitats. In this interview, they discuss their work in the Four Corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona where solar generation is being proposed.
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Jay is joined by Dave Pacheco of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA). Dave is SUWA’s Utah Grassroots Organizer, a fifth generation Utahn from Salt Lake City and a graduate of the University of Utah with a B.S. in Sociology. He’s in his second stint with SUWA, having held similar positions with the organization from 1994-2004, rejoining the staff in 2014. His focus is educating and bringing together individuals and groups in support of protecting the remaining wild lands at the heart of the Colorado Plateau. In his own time, Dave prefers hiking, paddling, bike touring and quiet recreation.
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In this interview with Dr. Robert Beschta, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University, Dr. Beschta discusses his research studies related to terrestrial trophic cascades in riparian and upland ecosystems. This effort included studies in several national parks in the western U.S. and Canada as well as the Apache National Forest in Arizona. However, most of his research efforts since the early 2000s have focused on the trophic effects of Yellowstone’s wolves on plant communities in the park’s northern range.
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Dan Flores is well-known for his book Coyote America and has authored at least nine other books. Dan has a new book that has just been published titled Wild New World and will be talking about it at the Country Bookshelf in Bozeman on Sunday, October 16 at 6:00 p.m. Dan was professor of western history who taught at the University of Montana and has now retired to live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Ranger Matt Anderson is wildlife biologist for the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Arkansas. Matt grew up in a rural area of the mountains in northwest Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in anthropology then worked for about 7 years on the coast of Oregon on salmon and steelhead recovery efforts. He received a Master’s Degree in fishery science at Oregon State University, studying desert trout migrations and the impact of fish passage barriers. He then started with the US Forest Service as a fisheries biologist, first on the Mt. Hood National Forest in Oregon, then on the Bridger/Teton National Forest in Wyoming. Matt came to his current position on the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in 2016, serving as the forest fish and wildlife biologist and program manager for the fisheries and wildlife program.
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Ranger Bik Wheeler is Wildlife Biologist for Acacia National Park. In this interview, he talks about the wildlife found in the park and along the coastline. Bik Wheeler has been at Acadia since 2008 and is the the lead wildlife biologist. He works to conserve the park’s wildlife populations through monitoring and research. Bik delights in the diversity of animal behavior, particularly when populations use unexpected life history strategies. Bik holds a master’s degree from College of the Atlantic where he studied warbler foraging strategies
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Ramona McGee is Senior Attorney and leader of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Wildlife Program. Since 2015, Ramona has protected southern wildlife as an SELC attorney using a combination of advocacy and policy protective of the region’s unique biodiversity. She was born and raised on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, where she developed a love for the natural world that inspires her everyday work at SELC. A graduate of Lewis & Clark College and the University of North Carolina School of Law, Ramona has lived in North Carolina since 2009. Ramona now leads SELC’s Wildlife Team as a senior attorney based in Chapel Hill. In this interview, she discusses the work she is doing on behalf of the endangered Red Wolf.
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In this interview, Clint talks about wildlife issues in western Montana and the threats to wildlife due to a hostile legislature and governor. GWA is involved in litigation re: clean water and the protection of wilderness - and strongly advocates for safe wildlife crossing structures over highways.
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Jay is joined by Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network to discuss environmental issues and their effects on indigenous people. In this interview, Tom talks about tribal activism re: the climate crisis and tribal efforts to combat carbon infusions into the atmosphere.
Tom B.K. Goldtooth (born July 27, 1953) is a Native American environmental, climate, and economic justice activist, speaker, film producer, and Indigenous rights leader within the climate and environmental justice and indigenous movement. Tom is active in local, national and international levels as an advocate for building healthy and sustainable Indigenous communities based upon the foundation of Indigenous traditional knowledge. Tom has served as executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) since 1996 after serving as a member of the IEN National Council since 1992.
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George Wuerthner is a professional photographer, writer and ecologist who writes frequently about wildfire. George has studied wildfire ecology as an undergraduate and then as a graduate student, studying with one of the major researchers who dealt with fire and climate issues. George has written more than two dozen books on various environmental topics, including several books on fire, after studying local fire regimes and literatures. His latest book is Protecting the Wild, available from Amazon. He is a Board member of a number of environmental organizations and is currently the ecological projects director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology.
Jay did a two-part interview with George about wildfire.
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George Wuerthner is a professional photographer, writer and ecologist who writes frequently about wildfire. George has studied wildfire ecology as an undergraduate and then as a graduate student, studying with one of the major researchers who dealt with fire and climate issues. George has written more than two dozen books on various environmental topics, including several books on fire, after studying local fire regimes and literatures. His latest book is Protecting the Wild, available from Amazon. He is a Board member of a number of environmental organizations and is currently the ecological projects director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology.
Jay did a two-part interview with George about wildfire.
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Mark Dowdle is Superintendent of Gates of the Arctic National Park in the far north of Alaska and above the Arctic Circle. Mark has been with the National Park Service for 24 years and started his new assignment at Gates of the Arctic in April of this year. He previously served as the deputy superintendent of Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina and has served as a park ranger, supervisor, and manager in a number of parks including the National Parks of Boston, Yosemite National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and Yellowstone National Park. In this interview, Mark introduces us to the wonders of the Gates of the Arctic. - and invites you to visit in person.
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Mark Dowdle is Superintendent of Gates of the Arctic National Park in the far north of Alaska. Mark has been with the National Park Service for 24 years and started his new assignment at Gates of the Arctic in April of this year. He previously served as the deputy superintendent of Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina and has served as a park ranger, supervisor, and manager in a number of parks including the National Parks of Boston, Yosemite National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and Yellowstone National Park. In this second interview, Mark welcomes us back to the Gates of the Arctic. - and and tell us more about this vast expanse north of the Arctic Circle.
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Jeannine Kimble is Visitor Services Manager of the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, 20 miles north of Socorro, New Mexico, in the Chihuahuan Desert south of Albuquerque. Jeannine is a native New Mexican. She grew up in the Four Corners area and has worked for US Fish and Wildlife Service since 2002, including nearly seven years at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Denver. Jeannine enjoys spending time in the out-of-doors and sharing her love of nature with others. In this interview, Jeannine takes us around the largest Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico which is bisected by the Rio Grande and has a huge and diverse wildlife population. So, c'mon down.
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Bruce Gordon is the Founder and President of EcoFlight, an environmental service organization that operates out of Aspen, Colorado. For the past twenty-odd years, EcoFlight has been providing aerial surveys that provide environmental information for NGOs and researchers all over the United States and even beyond its borders. Listen to how Bruce and his associates work to enable their clients to collect the facts, statistics and other data they need to advocate for wilderness and wildlife.
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Joan Maloof, Professor Emeritus at Salisbury University, founded the Old-Growth Forest Network to preserve, protect and promote the country’s few remaining stands of old-growth forest. She spends her time lecturing, writing, visiting forests, assisting private landowners, and supporting local groups trying to protect community forests from development.
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Jason Baldes is Wyoming Representative for the National Wildlife Federation and NWF’s Tribal Buffalo Coordinator for the Tribal Partnerships Program. He is a graduate of Montana State University where he earned his Master’s degree in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences. Jason oversees a range of projects and raises money to support the Center’s mission to empower Native Americans in Wyoming through community organizing, education, research, legal advocacy and leadership development.
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Andy Kerr is a self-described Oregon conservationist, writer, analyst, operative, agitator, strategist, tactician, schmoozer, and raconteur. He has worked as Executive Director of Oregon Wild and has been instrumental in securing Congressional legislation to protect old growth forests from deforestation throughout the West. Andy Kerr identifies himself as Czar of the Larch Company and, as such, consults on environmental and conservation issues principally for non-governmental conservation organizations. His website is www.andykerr.net.
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Michael and Paula Webster, from Lincolnshire, England, spent five years roaming around South America, looking for birds - from Tierra del Fuego north to Colombia - and authoring a book: The Condor's Feather. Travel with them as they explore Patagonia, national parks and volcanoes in search of the vast populations of feathered creatures.
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In the most Northwest corner of the most Northwest state (of the lower 48), Scott Andrews tracks the annual migration of Snow Geese, trumpeter Swans and other birds and wildlife.
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The Wildlife of Grand Canyon National Park is the subject of this interview with Ranger Greg Holm, Wildlife Biologist for the Park. He talks about the differences between the wildlife found on the rim of the canyon and the wildlife found on the slopes as well as at the river level.
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JG is Executive Director of the Wildlife Conservation Network. JG talks about the work WCN does in many countries of the world to save endangered wildlife, with staff members partnering with local indigenous groups in Africa, Asia and South America to protect and save species.
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This is our third interview with Dr. Joanna Lambert, Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder – in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Lambert also serves as advisor to the United Nations Environmental Program and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Dr. Lambert is an elected Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Linnean Society of London. She has published hundreds of scientific articles and several books and has spent the last 30 years of her career investigating mammal ecology in remote landscapes around the world. Most recently, she has been researching coyotes in areas with wolves, like Yellowstone National Park and areas without wolves, like Colorado. In her extra time, she rides horses, plays with her two dogs, or gets lost in the mountains. In addition to her teaching about mammal ecology, especially primates, Dr. Lambert teaches some courses on dogs at the University and, since dogs are descended from wild canids, I wanted to ask her about DOGS.
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David Parsons is a Board member of Project Coyote and vice-chairman and a science fellow of The Rewilding Institute (a conservation think tank) and is the Institute’s Carnivore Conservation Biologist. Dave serves on several regional steering/advisory committees for organizations and coalitions advocating for wolf recovery and landscape-scale conservation in the Southwest. Dave’s interests include the ecology and conservation of large carnivores, protection and conservation of biodiversity, and wildlands conservation. Dave is retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service where from 1990-1999 he led the Service’s effort to reintroduce the endangered Mexican gray wolf to portions of its former range in Arizona and New Mexico.
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John Davis is Executive Director of The Rewilding Institute, headquartered in Albuquerque and founded thirty years ago by Dave Foreman and others. In this interview, John discusses the unique approach of The Rewilding Institute to dealing with environmental issues, especially wildlife and its habitat. Issues John talks about are Deep Ecology, Mapping the Heartland, Wildways Corridors and Wildlands Restoration, the role of science and the 30 x 30 program to restore the earth. With associates scattered all over the United States, Rewilding can deal with a diversity of issues.
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Dr. Lambert teaches at the University of Colorado but has lived in Rwanda and worked with chimpanzees and other primates. In this interview, we explore the mental capacity of chimps and their problem-solving capabilities. We then relate that information to American mammals such as Grizzly bears and wolves.
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Dr. Terry L. Root, Professor Emerita at Stanford University, continues her discussion of Climate Change. Root earned her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of New Mexico, her master’s degree in Biology from the University of Colorado and her doctorate in Biology from Princeton University. She was a professor at the University of Michigan for 15 years before moving to Stanford University for another 15 years. She was a lead author of the 4th Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change that in 2007 was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore. She also participated in other Assessment Reports in 2001 & 2014. Root was awarded the Spirit of Defenders Award for Science by Defenders of Wildlife in 2010, and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 for the conservation organization Point Blue. She served on the National Audubon Board of Directors from 2010 to 2019 and currently serves on the board of Defenders of Wildlife, Birds Caribbean, and is on numerous science advisory boards, including the American Wind and Wildlife Institute. She has been engaged in climate change studies for most of her career and talks with us here about that issue and its impacts on wildlife.
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In this third interview, Kieran Suckling, Executive Director, and founder of the Center for Biological Diversity, talks about Cilmate Change and legislation CBD supports.. He studied computer science and mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University and Stanford University. He holds degrees in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stonybrook (a master's) and College of the Holy Cross (a bachelor's) focused on Greek, continental, linguistic and environmental thought. In addition to overseeing the Center's conservation, finance, fundraising and administration programs, he writes and lectures on the threats to, preservation of, and relationships between cultural and biological diversity. He also maintains the most comprehensive endangered species research and management database in the United States.
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John Horning, the Executive Director of Wild Earth Guardians, continues our recent discussion about the issues and activities in which Wild Earth Guardians is engaged. John grew up in Washington, D.C. on a street that borders Rock Creek Park, one of the wildest urban parks in our country where he cultivated an appreciation for the solace of wild spaces. John graduated for Colorado college in 1989 where he developed a life-long appreciation for the writings of Wallace Stegner. John has worked for a variety of environmental education and advocacy groups and moved to New Mexico in 1994 where he joined the staff of what would later become Wild Earth Guardians.
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Dr. Terry L. Root, Professor Emerita at Stanford University, continues her discussion of Climate Change. Root earned her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of New Mexico, her master’s degree in Biology from the University of Colorado and her doctorate in Biology from Princeton University. She was a professor at the University of Michigan for 15 years before moving to Stanford University for another 15 years. She was a lead author of the 4th Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change that in 2007 was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore. She also participated in other Assessment Reports in 2001 & 2014. Root was awarded the Spirit of Defenders Award for Science by Defenders of Wildlife in 2010, and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 for the conservation organization Point Blue. She served on the National Audubon Board of Directors from 2010 to 2019 and currently serves on the board of Defenders of Wildlife, Birds Caribbean, and is on numerous science advisory boards, including the American Wind and Wildlife Institute. She has been engaged in climate change studies for most of her career and talks with us here about that issue and its impacts on wildlife.
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KC York is the Executive Director of Trap Free Montan. Here she continues her interview about the cruelty of trapping and her uphill fight to end trapping in Montana.
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Our interview today is with KC York, Founder and President of Trap Free Montana. KC has been involved with animals, domestic and wild, since early childhood, rescuing, re-homing, advocating and promoting an understanding and appreciation for them. KC incorporates her formal education in Wildlife Biology, Psychology, her work experience as a vet-tech, and leading other non-profits, into her passion. Her stepfather was a rancher, hunter, and, during the Depression, a trapper. Her mother was a devoted animal lover, gifted with the ability of saving animals near the brink of death. They passed their knowledge about animals onto her and provided her different perspectives. All were in agreement; trapping is cruel and is unnecessary.
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This interview is with Rick Bass, author of more than 30 books, wildlife and wildlands activist and resident of the Yaak Valley in northwest Montana. Bass studied geology at Utah State University. He grew up in Houston, and started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1987, he moved with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes Bass, to the remote Yaak Valley, where he works to protect his adopted home from roads and logging. Rick serves on the boards of the Yaak Valley Forest Council, Save the Yellowstone Grizzly, and The Montana Project. He continues to give readings, write, and teach around the country and world.
Rick Bass has had numerous stories anthologized in Best American Short Stories: The Year’s Best. His nonfiction has been anthologized in Best American Spiritual Writing and Best American Science Writing and several other anthologies. Various of his books have been named New York Times as well as Los Angeles Times Notable Books of the Year, and a New York Times Best Book of the Year. A nonfiction book, Why I Came West, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a 2011 Artist’s Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council and a Governor’s Award in the Arts. His stories, articles and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Washington Post, and numerous other periodicals.
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Rick McIntyre is a well-known Wolf Researcher in Yellowstone National Park. No one has spent more time observing and documenting wild wolves than retired National Park Ranger Rick McIntyre, who has watched wolves in America’s national parks for more than forty years—twenty-five of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 sightings. McIntyre is the author of the ongoing "Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone" series, including The Rise of Wolf 8, The Reign of Wolf 21, and the recently published The Redemption of Wolf 302. He is currently at work on a fourth book about Wolf 06 and other Yellowstone alpha females, due out in Fall 2022. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana, just outside of the NE Park entrance.
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Listen to this fascinating interview with Rick McIntyre, the Wolf Researcher in Yellowstone National Park, who has spent time observing and documenting wild wolves in America’s national parks for more than forty years—twenty-five of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 sightings. McIntyre is the author of the ongoing "Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone" series, including The Rise of Wolf 8, The Reign of Wolf 21, and the recently published The Redemption of Wolf 302. He is currently at work on a fourth book about Wolf 06 and other Yellowstone alpha females, due out in Fall 2022. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana, just outside of the NE Park entrance.
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Kieran Suckling is, Executive Director and founder of the Center for Biological Diversity, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. He studied computer science and mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University and Stanford University. He holds degrees in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stonybrook (a master's) and College of the Holy Cross (a bachelor's) focused on Greek, continental, linguistic and environmental thought. In addition to overseeing the Center's conservation, finance, fundraising and administration programs, he writes and lectures on the threats to, preservation of, and relationships between cultural and biological diversity. He also maintains the most comprehensive endangered species research and management database in the United States. In this interview, Kieran discusses the work of CBD and the issues on which they are currently focused.
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John Horning is Executive Director of Wild Earth Guardians, based in Laramie, Wyoming. John grew up in Washington, D.C. on a street that borders Rock Creek Park, one of the wildest urban parks in our country where he cultivated an appreciation for the solace of wild spaces. John graduated for Colorado college in 1989 where he developed a life-long appreciation for the writings of Wallace Stegner. John has worked for a variety of environmental education and advocacy groups and moved to New Mexico in 1994 where he joined the staff of what would later become Wild Earth Guardians. He talks about efforts of WEG to defend wildlife.
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Erik Molvar is Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting and restoring wildlife and watersheds throughout the American West. Erik is a wildlife biologist with scientific research in behavioral ecology and systems ecology of moose, and has spent 10 years as an author of guidebooks to national parks and wilderness areas, including one about Wyoming’s Red Desert. He has been a conservation professional for 21 years, working first in BLM wilderness inventory and later on oil and gas issues, sage grouse conservation, large carnivore defense, land-use planning, and livestock issues.
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Erik Molvar is Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting and restoring wildlife and watersheds throughout the American West. Erik is a wildlife biologist with scientific research in behavioral ecology and systems ecology of moose, and has spent 10 years as an author of guidebooks to national parks and wilderness areas, including one about Wyoming’s Red Desert. He has been a conservation professional for 21 years, working first in BLM wilderness inventory and later on oil and gas issues, sage grouse conservation, large carnivore defense, land-use planning, and livestock issues.
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John Horning is Executive Director of Wild Earth Guardians, based in Laramie, Wyoming. John grew up in Washington, D.C. on a street that borders Rock Creek Park, one of the wildest urban parks in our country where he cultivated an appreciation for the solace of wild spaces. John graduated for Colorado college in 1989 where he developed a life-long appreciation for the writings of Wallace Stegner. John has worked for a variety of environmental education and advocacy groups and moved to New Mexico in 1994 where he joined the staff of what would later become Wild Earth Guardians.
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Ron Tipton has spent most of the past 40 years as an advocate for public land preservation, national park protection and for the Appalachian Trail. A graduate of the George Washington U. National Law Center, from 1978 to 2013 he was part of the advocacy and/or management team of four conservation organizations: The Wilderness Society, National Audubon Society, World Wildlife Fund, and National Parks Conservation Association. (NPCA)
From 2013 to the end of 2017 Ron served as the President & CEO of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and greatly expanded its fundraising, increasing its annual budget from $6.4 million to nearly $10 million. Ron led a staff & board process that focused on continuing to provide a high quality hiking experience for increasing numbers of hikers on the Appalachian Trail; protecting the landscape surrounding the 2,190 mile Trail. Ron retired from ATC at the end of 2017 and joined its Partnership Board in 2020.
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This is our second interview wih Dr. Sharon Weaver, the curator at the Mammoth Site exhibit at Hot Springs, South Dakota. In this broadcast, Sharon talks about the Megafauna that roamed North America between one hundred fifty thousand and ten thousand years ago and why they are no longer here.
At the site, Sharon 's major projects currently include Ice Age giant ground sloths from the Great Plains region, mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and other cave fauna of the black hills.
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Adam Weaver is President of the American Speleological Society and has explored and mapped caves all over the United States. Interested in Caving? He will take you underground and show you its delights.
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Doug continues his discussion of our connection to the natural world and the amazing amount of DNA we share with the animal kingdon.
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Doug talks about our connection to the natural world and the amazing amount of DNA we share with other creatures.
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Amaraq describes how the Center works on behalf of wolves to insure their comeback.
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Join Ranger Tom VandenBerg as he takes you through the wonders of Big Bend National Park in Texas and tells you about the incredibly diverse wildlife of Big Bend country.
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Amaraq Weiss is Senior Wolf Advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, specializing in Wolf Conservation. The recent delisting of Gray Wolves has allowed Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and other states to allow the hunting and trapping of the vast majority of wolves in their states. CBD is engaged in an effort to provide protection for these recovered animals.
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Nicole Whittington-Evans is Field Program Director for the Defenders of Wildlife in Alaska. Nicole started her environmental career studying and working on wildlife issues. She received her master’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana, where she focused on Alaska’s predator control efforts. Over the years, working with several conservation groups in Alaska, Nicole has developed expertise in Wildlife issues and public lands. Here Nicole describes the efforts of Defenders to sustain populations of wildlife in Alaska. More interviews at www.js-wilderness.com
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Doug is the author of In the Shadow of the Sabretooth and, with his wife Andrea, co-authored the book The Essential Grizzly. Doug also writes extensively for magazines, including Audubon, Backpacker and Outside. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 Lannan Fellow. He lives just north of Yellowstone in the Paradise Valley of Montana. We are talking today about his book In the Shadow of the Sabretooth and the megafauna wildlife that goes back tent o fifteen thousand years on this North American continent.
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Jeff Fair is the author of The Great American Bear and his most recent book In Wild Trust, published in 2017, about the McNeil River brown-bear watching experience in SW Alaska. His first job out of University of New Hampshire in 1976 with a MS in Wildlife Ecology, was as a trapper on the InterGovernmental Grizzly Bear Study Team in Yellowstone. 40 years later, he spent parts of 5 summers in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem again, this time on a Common Loon study as advisor and field tech. He spent many years doing fieldwork in AK and has made more than 20 visits to the Alaskan Arctic, most to the National Petroleum Reserve and has written articles in Audubon magazine about Yellow-billed Loons, his experience at the Reserve and about the Western Arctic Caribou herd, one of three herds living in the Reserve . Sort of semi-retired, he still calls himself an Independent Field Biologist and Author. Listen to More WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE interviews at www.js-wilderness.com.
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Brian keeps tabs on the status of the Border Wall from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, the Wall that Trump wanted to build, Biden stopped and Abbott wants to start building again, the wall that disrupts natural wildlife movements. It needs your help to recover the landscape.
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Paula is a professional writer who writes about marine and terrestrial wildlife. She talks about her entry into the field and they training she took to become a published author and writer.
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The Gallatin River flows north from Yellowstone and passes by Big Sky, a resort that won't stop growing and dumps toxic effluent into the river. It takes time but John, attorney with Cottonwood Law, continues to win court battles to save the river.
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Working for Defenders of Wildlife out of Palmer, Alaska, Nicole, started her environmental career studying and working on wildlife issues. She received her master’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana, where she focused on Alaska’s predator control efforts. Over the years, working with several conservation groups in Alaska, Nicole has developed further expertise in Wildlife issues and public lands.
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Based on his book, In the Shadow of the Sabretooth, Doug talks about the prehistoric megafauna encountered by immigrants to NA about 15,000 years ago when the climate changed - and why those large animals went extincy, a portent of what we face today.
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Amanda Lollar, Founder and President of Bat World Sanctuary in Weatherford, Texas, continues her interview about bats - how she came to start the Sanctuary in Texas that has been rehabilitating bats from all around the world and provides sanctuary for those that can't be released.
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Vance Martin, President of the Wild Foundation, based in Boulder, Colorado. Vance joined WILD as president in 1984 after 15 years in international business and non-profit management. An innovative leader known for bridging the interests of people and nature, he has lived extensively overseas, worked in over 55 countries, and helped to establish many non-profit organizations. In this interview, he talks about the work The Wild Foundation provides on behalf of wildife not only in the U.S. but also in Africa and South America.
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Amanda Lollar, Founder and President of Bat World Sanctuary in Weatherford, Texas, talks about bats - and how she came to start the Sanctuary in Texas that has been rehabilitating bats from all around the world and provides sanctuary for those that can't be released.
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Doug Peacock is a renowned grizzly bear expert and nature writer. A Vietnam vet and former Green Beret medic, his memoirs, The Grizzly Years and Walking it Off, chronicle the healing of his war-torn soul through his relationship with this quintessential carnivore. He is also the author of iBaja! and served as the wild grizzly consultant for the classic 1988 Jean-Jacques Junnaud film, The Bear.
Doug is the author of In the Shadow of the Sabretooth and, with his wife Andrea, co-authored the book The Essential Grizzly. Doug also writes extensively for magazines, including Audubon, Backpacker and Outside. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 Lannan Fellow. He lives just north of Yellowstone in the Paradise Valley of Montana.
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Doug Peacock is a renowned grizzly bear expert and nature writer. A Vietnam vet and former Green Beret medic, his memoirs, The Grizzly Years and Walking it Off, chronicle the healing of his war-torn soul through his relationship with this quintessential carnivore. He is also the author of iBaja! and served as the wild grizzly consultant for the classic 1988 Jean-Jacques Junnaud film, The Bear.
Doug is the author of In the Shadow of the Sabretooth and, with his wife Andrea, co-authored the book The Essential Grizzly. Doug also writes extensively for magazines, including Audubon, Backpacker and Outside. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 Lannan Fellow. He lives just north of Yellowstone in the Paradise Valley of Montana.
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Sarah Killingsworth is a San Francisco Bay Area-based California Naturalist, a Wildlife Educator with Project Coyote, and conservation photographer. She is a frequent public speaker about coexistence with wildlife, particularly native predators. Her photography has been published in local and national media, in print and online. She loves bobcats and hopes that sharing her photos will inspire others to love and protect these amazing animals
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Jay’s guest today is Jeffrey Hunter, a senior program manager with National Parks & Conservation Association (NPCA) in Asheville, NC where he works on issues related to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the Appalachian National Scenic Trail.
Jeff spent 20 years in the telecommunications industry when a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail inspired him to realign his career with his conservation values. From 2008 to 2013, Jeff led the Tennessee Wild wilderness campaign focused on permanently protecting nearly 20,000 acres in the Cherokee National Forest, including 4.5 miles of the Appalachian Trail. The Tennessee Wilderness Act signed into law in December 2018 saw that project through to completion. Prior to joining NPCA in 2015, Jeffrey worked in eastern California on grouse habitat restoration in a high-desert environment overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.
Jeff holds a BA in environmental studies from State University of New York Empire State College and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in sustainable natural resource management. He spends most of his time coordinating a collaborative project focused on improving wildlife’s ability to safely cross Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge, just outside of the Smokies.
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Dr. Joanna Lambert is Professor, Environmental Studies Program in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Colorado. She talks with us today about her work with primates in Uganda. In addition to her teaching and research roles, Joanna Lambert has served as an advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme and other organizations. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. Joanna has held numerous editorial positions for journals such as Oecologia, the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and Integrative Zoology, and previously served an appointment as the Director of the National Science Foundation’s Biological Anthropology program. Joanna travels annually to Uganda to the Kibale National Park where she is director of the Kibale Primates & Plants Project
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Jay talks with Myles Traphagen, Borderlands Program Coordinator for the Wildlands Network. Myles works out of Tucson and has over twenty years of experience working in the borderlands, working to protect endangered species. He has previous experience working on the Ted Turner ranches in New Mexico, monitoring the rangeland. Miles is a graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz and received his masters degree in the Geology Department from the University of Arizona where he did jackrabbit research . Myles talks about the damage done to the borderlands by the Trump Administrations work to build the border wall – and what is being done to restore the landscape.
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Jay Shell talks to Mark Romanski, who has been a Park Ranger Biologist and natural Resource Manager at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior for 25 years. Mark has hiked all 175 miles of trail on 45 mile-long Isle Royale and participates in the the annual census of moose and the Great Lakes Inventory. He has a Master’s degree in Ecology from Michigan Tech and did graduate studies of beaver ecology. In this interview, Mark talks about the Wolf-Moose interaction at Isle Royale and the other wildlife that inhabit the island.
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Jay is joined by Susan Jane Brown, Public Lands and Wildlife Attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center, which litigates on behalf of the environment all over the West. Susan Jane joined the Center as a staff attorney in 2009 after serving as natural Resources Counsel for Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) in Washington, D.C. She also worked as a staff attorney with the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland. A nationally recognized expert of forest law, Susan Jane is a recipient of the Wilburforce Foundation’s Conservation Leadership Award, honoring her years of hard work protecting wildlife and wildlands in the West and recognizing her outstanding leadership in the conservation movement. Susan Jane graduated from Vanderbilt University and earned her law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School. She works from the Center’s office in Eugene, Oregon.
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Jack Oelfke has just retired as a Ranger at North Cascades National Park, just sought of the Canadian border in Northern Washington. He talks about the features of the Park and the surrounding National Recreation areas and the wildlife that is found in the Park.
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Clint Nagel is President of the Gallatin Wildlife Association in Bozeman, Montana. He is now retired from the Water Resource Mission of the U.S. Geological Service where he worked for 31 years in the hydrologic section monitoring streamflows, grand water levels and collecting and analyzing water quality and sediment. Clint hold a degree in Biology rom Southern Oregon College and began his career with the USGS in 1978. A lifetime advocate for animals and wildlife, Clint is Vice President of the Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance and is on the Steering Committee for Montanans for Safe Wildlife Passage. He talks about the goals of the Gallatin Wildlife Association and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
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Kim Crumbo is a member of the Leadership Council of the Rewilding Institute and the Mexican Wolf recovery Consultant with the Wildlands Network. He is a retired Navy Seal and is a recipient of the Bronze Star. Kim served for 20 years with the National Park Service in the Grand Canyon as the river ranger and later as Wilderness Coordinator. He worked as a professional river guide for ten years and two years as the Wilderness Coordinator for the Sierra club. He assists an eclectic array of conservationist partners in development and implementation of the Western Wildway, including wilderness and national monument designations. His work includes active participation in a collaborative effort of local, regional and national conservation scientific and sportsmen’s organizations and concerned citizens to help save the endangered Mexican gay wolf. Among his many awards, Kim received the Wilburforce Foundation’s 2016 Conservation Leadership Award. Among other publications, he is the author of A River Runners Guide to the History of the Grand Canyon.
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Patty Cramer is a consultant for numerous highway departments across the United States in identifying wildlife crossings and collision locations. She talks about how these locations are identified, the animals most at risk for highway crossings and the appropriate structures to attempt to prevent these collisions.
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Kim Crumbo is a member of the Leadership Council of the Rewilding Institute and the Mexican Wolf recovery Consultant with the Wildlands Network. He is a retired Navy Seal and is a recipient of the Bronze Star. Kim served for 20 years with the National Park Service in the Grand Canyon as the river ranger and later as Wilderness Coordinator. He worked as a professional river guide for ten years and two years as the Wilderness Coordinator for the Sierra club. He assists an eclectic array of conservationist partners in development and implementation of the Western Wildway, including wilderness and national monument designations. His work includes active participation in a collaborative effort of local, regional and national conservation scientific and sportsmen’s organizations and concerned citizens to help save the endangered Mexican gay wolf. Among his many awards, Kim received the Wilburforce Foundation’s 2016 Conservation Leadership Award. Among other publications, he is the author of A River Runners Guide to the History of the Grand Canyon. In this interview, he talks about Mexican Wolves and the work to strengthen their populations on the Border in Arizona and New Mexico.
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Sharon Young is senior strategist for marine issues with the Humane Society of the United States. She is appointed to serve on a number of federal task forces addressing marine mammal conservation including 5 federal task forces dealing with fisheries and marine mammals. She served on both the Bonneville and Willamette Falls task forces addressing sea lion predation on fish runs in the Columbia River and its tributaries. Sharon has taught or guest-lectured at several universities regarding marine mammal conservation and has co-authored publications on whale conservation. In this interview, she talks about the plan to kill sea lions in order to save salmon populations for orcas who are dependent on them for food.
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Sam Davis is Conservation Scientist for the Dogwood Alliance in North Carolina. A life-long treehugger, Sam earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Science in 2015 at Wright State University and completed a postdoc at University of California Merced before leaving academia for greener forests. He is thrilled to be translating science into action with Dogwood Alliance. In this interview, Sam talks about his work with Dogwood Alliance in its efforts to save the forests of the Southeast from the logging companies that turn lumber into pulp for shipment to Europe.
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Dr. Jocelyn Akins is a wildlife biologist and the founder of Cascades Carnivore Project, a conservation science non-governmental organization working to promote the conservation of carnivores and their ecological communities in the Cascade Range through research, community engagement, and collaboration. She earned a Ph.D. in Conservation Genetics from the University of California Davis and has over twenty years of experience in wildlife conservation research. She has done studies with the Red Fox and Wolverines in Washington's Cascade Range. This interview describes her work finding a wolverine family on Mr. Rainier.
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Dr. Jocelyn Akins is a wildlife biologist and the founder of Cascades Carnivore Project, a conservation science non-governmental organization working to promote the conservation of carnivores and their ecological communities in the Cascade Range through research, community engagement, and collaboration. She earned a Ph.D. in Conservation Genetics from the University of California Davis and has over twenty years of experience in wildlife conservation research. She has done studies with the Red Fox and Wolverines in Washington's Cascade Range. This interview describes her work with Red Fox.
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Sharon Young is the marine specialist for the Humane Society - and covers both the Atlantic and Pacific edges of the continent, working for the preservation of whales, sea lions, other marine mammals and fish. She talks in the interview about the government policy of killing sea lions in the Columbia River basin in order to reduce predation on salmon.
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Joe Scalia is a psychotherapist in Livingston, MT., and relates his professional practice to the necessity to preserve natural ecosystems.
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Bob Crabtree is head of Yellowstone Research Center in Bozeman and does research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem on wildlife and habitat.
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Dr. Moomaw is a Forestry and Carbon Sequestration specialists who discusses the importance of saving the counry's old growth forests in order to preserve carbon sequestration.
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Joe Scalia is a Coinical Psychologist in Livingstone, Montana, and President of the Gallatin-Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance, aiming to conserve wilderness in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. He discusses the forces they are fighting with the newly revised Gallatin Forest Plan.
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Bob Casey talks about the scientific research being done to understand the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as a model for ecological recovery.
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Forests are a major factor in the sequestration of carbon dioxide and deforestation from logging activity and tree removal for agricultural production is a significant problem, especially with the climate change the earth is now experiencing.
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In Part 2, Dr. Moomaw talks about the importance of saving the Western forests.
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