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The Wild Idea — 143 episodes
Jim Klug, Hal Herring & Alex Leone: River Access Is Not a Spectator Sport
Christian Hunt & Kelly Cox: Can Wildlife Corridors Cross DC's Political Divide?
Adam Cramer: How Outdoor Recreation Became a Conservation Coalition
Dan Puskar: DC's Own National Park
Ryan Johnston: Building Cast Hope Through the Sport of Fly Fishing
Andy Mergen & Justin Pidot: How Do We Make Public Lands More Public?
The Wild Line: DOGE Cuts Exacerbate Wildfire, Interior Cancels Endangered Species Protections, and Alaska Judge Dismisses Dalton Highway Suit
Lynn Scarlett & Matt Lee-Ashley: Can We Rewrite the Rules of Public Lands Policy?
The Wild Line: Proposed NHPA Changes Undermine Tribes, Administration Targets Chaco Canyon, Okefenokee Makes Bid for UNESCO Designation
Brooks Lamb: Land, Legacy, and Who Comes Next
The Wild Line: Trump Guts Utah Monuments, Admin Rewrites 'Harm,' Red Wolves Recover as Grizzlies and Whales are Targeted
Heather Hansman: Fierce Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild
The Wild Line: A New Tracker for Public Land Comment Periods, Eastern States Invest in Wildlife Crossings, and Forest Service Retirees Join Suit to Stop Reorg
Paul Hendricks, Jen McLaren & Dawn Mancini Moyer: Why Outdoor Brands Are Speaking Up for Public Lands
The Wild Line: A Genomics Pact for Endangered Species, an Oregon Timber Lawsuit, and a Farewell to National Parks Traveler
Meryl Harrell & Lisa Ronald: The future of stewarding our shared wild spaces
The Wild Line: Farm Bill Text Features Wilderness Designations, Interior Rolls Back Drilling Safeguards, and NPS Restricts Reporting on Fatalities
Fault Lines: Exploring Wilderness Climbing Management
Dillon Osleger: The Hidden Histories Beneath America's Trails
The Wild Line: New Wilderness Directives, Congress Approves $2 Billion for Parks, Former Big Bend Supervisors Fight Border Wall
Sheena Pate: The Rivers That Launched the Wild and Scenic Act
The Wild Line: Trump Targets Recommended Wilderness, Lee Launches Attack on Roadless, Interior Designates New Trails
Kaitlin de Varona: Stewardship as a Form of Advocacy
The Wild Line: Trump Repeals Motorized Protections, the CRA comes for Utah, Appropriators Slash Funding for National Parks
Jaime Loucky: 60 Years of Stewarding Trails in the Evergreen State
The Wild Line: Wildlife Fare Well in Transportation Bill, Park Fees Redirected to DC, a Warning on Wildfire Season
Tracy Stone-Manning Returns: Don't Mourn, Organize
The Wild Line: Pearce Confirmed for BLM, Cyanide Bombs Return to Public Lands, Kash Patel Dives Pearl Harbor
John Leshy: The Hollowing Out of America’s Public Lands
The Wild Line: Public Lands Rule Rescinded, Right Whale and Roadless Rule Hearings Loom, and Wins in Colorado and New Mexico
Gregg Treinish & Lara Birkes: Turning Adventure into Conservation Data
The Wild Line: Pearce Nomination Heads to Senate Floor, American Prairie Permit Battle, Alaska Land Transfer, and Ted Turner's Legacy
Autumn Gillard & Steve Bloch: Tribal Voices and the Fight to Save Grand Staircase - Escalante
The Wild Line: Trump Pulls NPS Nominee, Appalachian Groups Sue Over Corridor H, and the Forest Service Embraces Glyphosate
The Wild Line: Trump Budget Targets Parks, USDA Consolidates NEPA Rules, and Three Key Public Lands Votes Loom in Congress
Dr. William Keeton: Carbon, Complexity, and the Future of Old Growth
The Wild Line: U.S. Forest Service Overhaul, Interior Aims to Drill Chaco Canyon, Protections for Rice's Whale Lifted
The Past, Present and Future of The Roadless Rule
The Wild Line: A Pipeline Executive Heads to Congress, SpaceX Eyes Refuge Land, and E&E News Loses a Quarter of Its Newsroom
Trust for Public Land: Why Every Child Deserves Green Time
The Wild Line: Congress Shields Lead Ammo, ESA Exemptions on the Table, and a Georgia Seashore Fight
Tim Mahoney: The Irish Wilderness and the Art of Passing a Bill
The Wild Line: Oil Drilling in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge, California Pipeline Restart, Scientists Release Suppressed Nature Report
Terry Tempest Williams: Wildness, Ancestors, and the Holy Ordinary
The Wild Line: Border Wall through Big Bend, Proposed Forest Service Prescribed Fire in Wilderness, Montana Political Moves Impacting Public Lands
Cole Mannix: Working Land Stewardship and Food Systems
The Wild Line: BLM Nominee Hearing, Alaska Land Rollback, Lesser Prairie Chicken Ruling, and Roadless Rule Update
The Wild Line: Lawsuit Seeks End to NPS Censorship, Proposed Management Changes to the Flathead, Comments Due for Cumberland Island VUMP
The Wild Line: Trump Targets Northeast Marine Monument, USFS Reconsiders Public Comment, Illinois Rewilds
The Wild Line: Drilling Process Opens for ANWR, States Debate Colorado Basin Water Rights, Washington Post Slashes Climate Coverage
The Wild Line: Tongass Old-Growth Logging Advances, Alabama Reconsiders Water Quality, NPS Removes Signage Nationwide
Andrew Thoms: The Tongass - America's Largest National Forest and a Key Roadless Landscape
The Wild Line: Could the Boundary Waters be Mined? Could Utah be Paved? Could Burgum end Bison Grazing?
Peter Metcalf and Terry Tatsey: Blackfeet Nation Stewardship and a Living Landscape in the Badger–Two Medicine
The Wild Line: Boundary Waters Under Threat (Again), Cumberland Islands Considers Visitor Use, 25 Years of the Roadless Rule
Bjorn Fredrickson & Raul Turrieta: The Roadless History of the World's First Designated Wilderness
The Wild Line: Logging Threatens Montana's Wild Rivers, Colorado Finds a Solution to Sackett
Kristin Gendzier: The Roadless Rule's Southern Roots
Chris Wood: Why We Have The Roadless Rule (Redux)
Michelle Fullner: Setting Resolutions with the Host of the Golden State Naturalist Podcast
Sarah Francisco: From Working Lands to Wild Lands in the Southern Appalachians
The Wild Line: House Passes SPEED Act, New Threats Emerge to Endangered Species, and States Move on Water Quality and Roadless Protections
Anne Robinson: "Good News" Returns With Good Tidings
Martha Williams: The Long Term View on Species Recovery
The Wild Line: Tribal Recognition in NC, Park Service Policy Shifts, Forest Service HQ to Utah?
Chris Eyer: Muledragger
The Wild Line: Forest Service Reverses Recommendations, NPS Increases Fees, Montana Stands Against Mining
Ben Goldfarb: Paving Paradise - How Roads Reshape the Wild
Grounded In Traditions
The Wild Line: Trump Puts Wetlands and Wildlife at Risk, Congress Takes Step to Stymie Environmental Review
American Prairie, Part Two - A Wilder Future
The Wild Line: Shutdown Ends, Oil Companies Exploit Texas and Alaska, Colorado Prioritizes Protection
American Prairie, Part One - Wild on Purpose
Malcolm Brooks: The Fallout from Ballot Box Biology
The Wild Line: Hirings, Firings and Protected Climbing Access
Frank Uekötter: Red Lines in Green Politics | Moral Lessons in Conservation History
The Wild Line: Senators Talk Stewardship, Ranchers Eye Point Reyes, Absaroka-Beartooth Avoids Poison
Barret Baumgart: The Desert is a Haunted House
The Wild Line: Wilderness Bills Advance, Trump Approves Izembek Road, Outdoor Alliance Takes DC
Christopher Preston: Tenacious Beasts
The Wild Line: Shutdown Chaos, Arctic Flooding, Pigeon River Restoration
Rachel Franchina: The People Powering Public Lands
The Wild Line: Ambler Road Approved, Resource Plans Nixed and Shutdown Fallout Deepens
Joel Gill: Creation Care and the Common Good
The Wild Line: The Government Shuts Down and a New Fat Bear Champion is Crowned
Chris Keyes: Why Public Lands Need RE:PUBLIC
The Wild Line: Senate Approves Nominees, NPS Erases History, Blue Ridge Parkway Reopens
Senator Tina Smith: You Can't Underestimate the Power of Place
The Wild Line: Advocates on the Hill, Last Day for Roadless Comments
Conrad Anker: Mountains of Perspective
The Wild Line: Chief Links Roadless Rule and Wildfire, BLM Joins the Rescission Party
Brooklyn Bridge Park: From Piers to Parklands
The Wild Line: Congress Targets Land Management Plans, EPA Silences Critics
Chris Hill: Community Power for Public Lands
Labor Day: The Human Cost of Federal Cuts
The Wild Line: Refuge Expansion Stopped, Act Now To Save The Roadless Rule
Southern Currents: Environmental Injustice and Energy Innovation in Virginia
Theodore Roosevelt IV: Americans for Alaska
Southern Currents: Appalachia In Recovery
Kim Bednarek: Community-Led Wins in the Okefenokee
The Wild Line: Reprieve for Hawaiian Marine Monument, Red Wolves Take Step Toward Recovery
Southern Currents: Saving the Buffalo River Again...and Again
Joe Whitson: Marketing the Wilderness
The Wild Line: Montana Rivers Protected, LWCF Threatened, Louisiana Wetlands Abandoned
Southern Currents: Land Loss and Citizen Science on The Gulf Coast
Blain and Monique Anderson: Sailing Alaska's Wilderness Waters
The Wild Line: Senators Slam USDA Reorg, New Parks Deep in the Heart of Texas
Your Hosts Bill & Anders: You Ask - We Answer
The Wild Line: USFS Reorg, Massive Cuts to Interior in House Budget Bill, Legal Win for Wildlife
Josh Jackson: The Forgotten Lands Project
Cristina Eisenberg: Humility as a Tool for Protection and Stewardship
The Wild Line: Oil Train Rolls in Utah, Merkley Asks for Wildfire Funds, Trump Targets Park History
Tony Bynum: Conservation Through a Photographer's Lens
The Wild Line: Congress Wraps Up Reconciliation, Trump Eyes the Everglades, USDA Considers Nuking NEPA
Anne Robinson: 'Good News' from the Appalachian Trail
The Conservation Alliance: Outdoor Brands Make a Stand
The Wild Line: Okefenokee Swamp Saved, Trump Targets the Roadless Rule, Lee's Land Sale Hits a Snag
Chris Wood: Roadless Rule Rescinded
Martin Nie and Monte Mills: Not Just a Box to Check - Tribal Sovereignty and Co-Management
The Wild Line: Wildfire, Broken Promises and Reconciliation
Tracy Stone-Manning: Promises Worth Defending
The Wild Line: Senate Draft Targets Millions of Acres, DOJ Clears Monument Rollbacks
Randy Newberg: The Host of Fresh Tracks Offers Fresh Ideas on Advocacy and Access
The Wild Line: Lee and Daines talk land sales, Interior guts Science and opens Alaska to drilling
Andis Arietta: The Uncertainty Inherent in Wilderness
The Wild Line: SCOTUS approves mine on sacred ground; Burgum rewrites history
Jon Jarvis: Are Our National Parks Being Set Up To Fail?
Ingrid Lyons: Save the Boundary Waters, Join the National Wilderness Coalition
The Wild Line: Burgum Defends Park Closures, Public Lands Survive Reconciliation (for now)
Senator Tim Kaine: Walk, Ride, Paddle, Protect!
Kaitie Schneider: Wolverines Reissued
The Wild Line: Bipartisan Pushback on Threats to Public Lands and the Endangered Species Act
Jose Gonzalez: Show Up and Be Curious
David Gessner: Roosevelt, Resistance and Reclaiming the Wild
Tim Manley: Grizzlies, Conflict, and Coexistence
Drew Lanham: The Wild We Inherit, The Wild We Imagine
Greg Aplet: Forests, Fire, and What is Wild
Susan Jane Brown: The (Troubled) Future of the United States Forest Service
Corina Newsome: The Wild All Around Us
Nate Schweber: Public Lands History That Rhymes
Hal Herring: Tailgate Conservation
The Icebreaker
Trailer - An Introduction to The Wild Idea