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All Land is Beautiful

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All Land is Beautiful is a science podcast hosted by Marshall Gorham. It has 29 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

All Land is Beautiful is a series of conversations around the obvious, and not so obvious, natural beauty of California and beyond. The motivation and nexus to start this podcast comes from an ever-evolving personal perspective shift on what contemporary habitat conservation means and looks like. You see, I, like I believe most people come to experience and perceive what’s good and bad for nature (at least the ones that I have interacted with) are of the mindset that the best we can do for nature is to simply remove ourselves from it and the natural of order of things will sort themselves out. You see a dense forest, you should leave it alone; you see a natural grassy field, well there certainly shouldn’t be any cows or sheep in it, and in that case why don’t we remove all of that old barbed-wire fencing; driving through huge swaths of agricultural land, jeez can you imagine what this all looked like before we turned it into row crops? And while those are all completely legitimate idea

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E28: They Held On, Someone Stepped In: Bringing Back the California Red-Legged Frog, with Rob Grasso (Yosemite NP)

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E27: The Dirt on Saving Dirt, with Erin Tarr of the Bear Yuba Land Trust

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E26: Small Land Trust, Big Landscape with Ellie Routt of the Mother Lode Land Trust

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E25: Flocks and Footnotes: Discussing Prescribed Grazing with Mark Gutierrez of Pilot Creek Ranch

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E24: Advice from the Golden State Naturalist, Michelle Fullner

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E23: Securing Our Fertile Future, with John Currey (Executive Director, Yolo Land Trust)

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E22: The American River Headwaters Project: Part 1, with Alan Ehrgott

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E21: Ditch the Desks and Go Outside, with Nic Russo (Education Manager at American River Conservancy)

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E20: Operation Magnolia - A Land Protection Victory, with Lisa Lindman (Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust)

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E19: Looking For Sanity in How We Develop, with Sean Wirth (a Volunteer Environmentalist)

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E18: Protecting Clover Valley: Getting Outside the Comfort Zone, with Jeff Darlington (Placer Land Trust) and John Jackson (Jessup University)

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E17: The Big Leagues of Bird Conservation, with Xerónimo Castañeda (Audubon California)

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E16: Beaver Dams are Dam Good Business, with Garrett Costello (Symbiotic Restoration)

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E15: Look Beyond the Interstate, with Nicole Braddock (Executive Director of the Solano Land Trust)

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E14: More Than Just a Water Trough, with Eric Kellegrew (Sacramento Valley Conservancy)

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E13: Bringing Chaos Back to a Meadow, with Cathy Mueller (American River Conservancy)

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E12: Finding a Seat at the Table, with Clipped In for Life

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E11: Getting the Message Across, with Spencer Davies of Trespasser Productions

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E10: Talkin' About Trails with the Tahoe Rim Trail Association

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E9: So You Want to Start a Land Trust?, with Alan Ehrgott (former Executive Director of the American River Conservancy)

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E8: Resiliency and Connection at the San Elijo Lagoon, with Doug Gibson (CEO of the Nature Collective)

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E7: The Diminutive Yet Very Significant Cosumnes River, with Melinda Frost-Hurzel

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E6: Birds, a Common Conservation Language, with Chris Conard

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E5: The American River Conservancy and El Dorado County's First State Wildlife Area

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E4: Carbon Farming on PT Ranch, with Molly Taylor

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E3: Birds and Beef with Pelayo Alvarez, Director of California Audubon’s Conservation Ranching Program

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E2: The Tricolored Blackbird, a Complicated Conservation Story with Robert Meese PhD.

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Introduction to All Land is Beautiful

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E1: Rethinking Protection of Plants, Animals, and ”Wild” Places in California with Jaymee Marty, PhD.

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