HumaNature
147 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 303 ratingsHumaNature explores where humans and our habitat meet. You'll hear real stories about human experiences in nature. Along the way, we’ll meet people whose encounters help us reflect on our own place in the natural world.
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Episode 113: The Air We Breathe
January 18, 2024 09:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBErin Parisi is on a mission to become the first trans woman to summit the highest mountain peaks on all seven continents. She’s conquered five of them and wants to save Mount Everest for last, but one mountain keeps standing in her way.
Episode 112: Buckaroo and The Blues
January 11, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBGayle Woodsum loves llamas. And her work with them would lead her to help evacuate hundreds of them from a Montana animal sanctuary in 2011. It is still one of the largest rescue operations ever documented in U.S. history.
Episode 111: Ruffin' It: A Road Trip Adventure
January 04, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBCarolyn Hochlowski never liked the outdoors. But when she turned 36 she realized life was passing her by. So she bought a cheap tent and sleeping bag and set off on a solo road trip across the country with a dog named Thor.
Points North: No Ice Is Safe Ice
December 28, 2023 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBIn the frigid month of February, three companions embark on an ice fishing expedition on Lake Huron. Initially, the camaraderie is palpable, but as the story unfolds, a collision of friendship, peer pressure, and the stark reality of facing mortality takes center stage.
Episode 110: A Discovery of Whales
December 21, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBDoreen Cunningham always loved whales. So when she got the chance to live with an Iñupiaq tribe, whose survival depends on whales, she jumped at it. Years later, back in her home in the UK, Doreen would once again turn to whales, this time to help her heal.
Episode 109: Close Encounters of the Wild Kind IV
December 14, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBIt’s back! This week we are doing another installment of our fan favorite series “Close Encounters of the Wild Kind.” This week we will bring you two stories from listeners who have gotten a little too close for comfort with some of nature’s critters while spending time outdoors.
Episode 108: The Night Shepherd
December 07, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes - 39 MBJosh King grew up in small town Wyoming. So he never imagined that one day he would end up being a night shepherd in the Swiss Alps.
Episode 107: Where we're going we don't need roads, just rivers
August 16, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBIn September, 2014 writer Ben McGrath had a chance encounter with Dick Conant; a 63 year old man on a solo paddling trip from Canada to Florida. Months later, Ben received a phone call from an unknown number which set him off on a journey of his own.
Episode 106: Paws in peril, expect the unexpected
August 09, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MBWhen Jeff Bonhert's dog didn't come home one day he feared the worst. Two months later he got a phone call that changed everything, and Jeff realized his dog may have been closer to home than he realized.
Episode 105: Not all who wander are lost, but some definitely are
August 02, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBMike Sarvey was an experienced hunter who felt confident in his outdoors skills. But one day he ventured in the Wyoming wilderness and lost his bearings. As the sun began to set, he realized he had made a huge mistake and that you can never be too prepared.
Episode 104: Hey now, you're a lob-star
July 26, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MBWhen Brady Brandwood decided to see what would happen when he bought a lobster to keep as a pet, he never expected it to change his life. This is the story of Leon the Lobster and his unlikely journey from grocery store tank to social media sensation.
Episode 103: The mountains are calling and I must go...grab my peanut
July 19, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBIn 2022, Bob Salem broke a very unusual record. He now holds the fastest time for pushing a peanut up Pikes Peak Mountain with his nose. Hear Bob's story and the history of this unusual feat on this week's episode.
Episode 102: Urban Birder
July 12, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBDavid Lindo always loved nature, but he grew up in the middle of the city and didn't feel like he had access to it. Until one day he realized that nature is everywhere. He started looking up, looking around, and inadvertently found a career in the process.
HumaNature Season 8 Trailer
July 06, 2023 17:45 - 1 minute - 2.21 MBJoin us as we gear up for season 8 of HumaNature.
Bonus: Modern West ‘Rematriation
June 28, 2023 19:40 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBAs we ring in our 100th episode, current and former HumaNature producers and hosts share their favorite episodes.
BONUS 100th Episode Celebration W/ Ryan Kelley EP 4
June 21, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MBAs we ring in our 100th episode, current and former HumaNature producers and hosts share their favorite episodes.
BONUS 100th Episode Celebration W/ Micah Schweizer EP 3
June 14, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBAs we ring in our 100th episode, current and former HumaNature producers and hosts share their favorite episodes.
BONUS 100th Episode Celebration W/ Charles Fournier EP 2
June 07, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBAs we ring in our 100th episode, current and former HumaNature producers and hosts share their favorite episodes.
BONUS 100th Episode Celebration W/ Megan Feighery EP 1
May 31, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBAs we ring in our 100th episode, current and former HumaNature producers and hosts share their favorite episodes.
Episode 101: Seas the Day
April 05, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes - 26.3 MBEmma Harper lives in Cornwall, England. She's a wife, a mother, and...a real-life mermaid! Emma spends hours each week in the Cornish seas frolicking in the waves. But she also uses her platform to speak up for our oceans and why they need protecting.
Episode 100: Bigfoot, a gorilla, and a potato all walk into a bar...
March 29, 2023 09:00 - 23 minutes - 31.5 MBFor the 100th episode of HumaNature, we’re bringing you two stories! In the first, a man plays the ultimate prank on his brother. In the second, a man out doing trail maintenance finds something odd at his campsite.
Episode 99: All Beagles Great and Small
March 22, 2023 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBThis time, almost 4000 Beagles are rescued and given a second chance at life.
Episode 98: The Long and Winding Trail
March 15, 2023 09:00 - 24 minutes - 26.7 MBAfter months of isolation during the pandemic one Vermont family, and their dog Moshi, decides to thru-hike a 272-mile trail for the very first time.
Episode 97: Chekhov’s Bear Spray
March 08, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes - 17.2 MBKirk Speckhals spent most of his summers in Wyoming mountain biking. He lives in Jackson Hole and always felt comfortable venturing into bear country. But that all changed on a beautiful August day when Kirk found himself face-to-face with a grizzly bear.
Episode 96: Reggie the Alligator
March 01, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes - 31 MBIn the early 2000’s Los Angeles became obsessed with a new celebrity – a six foot alligator named Reggie. And when city officials set out to capture him, Reggie went on the lam.
Episode 95: Close Encounters Of The Wild Kind III
June 16, 2021 06:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBIt's late spring and animals are on the move. Sometimes their paths cross with people. For our last episode of the season, here are two stories…this time from the deep.
Episode 94: Surfing With Jason
May 26, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBJustin Murray and his brother Jason spent their childhoods in Florida. They did everything together: fishing, surfing, making their own surfboards. But when they grew up, they forgot about their old dreams and got corporate jobs--until something happened that reminded Justin what life was all about.
Episode 93: Reaching Rob's Roadhouse
May 05, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBGreg Mills and his best friend Rob adventured together in the Alaska wilderness. Their dream was to run the Iditarod Trail Invitational Trail together. A wild river seemed to present an insurmountable obstacle. Despite everything, Greg kept going.
Episode 92: Fireline
April 14, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBIntroducing Montana Public Radio's new podcast, Fireline. When Lily Clarke arrived at the August Complex Fire, it was a fire of sensational size. The blaze eventually burned more than 1 million acres, becoming the largest recorded wildfire in California history. Across the country in 2020, flames charred an area nearly 5 times the size of Yellowstone National Park — the largest swath of land burned since reliable records began. Wildfires across the country are getting bigger, hotter...
Episode 91: Meeting A King
March 26, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 26.1 MBShermin de Silva was an elephant researcher looking for a sign. Then she met a king.
Episode 90: These Boots Were Made For Hiking
March 03, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBWyn Wiley thought they had to pass for straight, even in their beloved outdoors. But then a special pair of boots came into their life.
Episode 89: Beyond The Court
February 10, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBDamen Bell-Holter faced a lot of trauma growing up in his small village in Alaska. He formed a goal to play professional basketball. But reaching for his dreams revealed an even larger purpose.
Episode 88: From One Glowworm To Another
January 21, 2021 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBHow has your relationship with nature changed during the pandemic? The HumaNature community weighs in.
Bonus Episode: Ten Steps
January 06, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBWe're on a holiday break until January 20. In the meantime, here's a dramatic story from the archives. In December 2016, Karen Klein got trapped in a snowstorm near the Grand Canyon. But she pushed through it to save her family.
Episode 87: 'Have I Had My Last Good Oyster?'
December 23, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBHumaNature's taking a holiday break. We'll be back with a fresh new episode on January 20. In the meantime, we'd like to introduce you to Life Raft, an upbeat podcast about living with climate change. In this episode, they take us on a journey from a famous oyster bar in New Orleans to a lab that’s trying to prepare oysters for a more turbulent future.
Episode 86: A Vegan's Guide To Eating Chicken
December 09, 2020 07:00 - 14 minutes - 33.1 MBMuyambi loved biking, so when his friends asked him to plan a cycling trip across his home country of Uganda he was thrilled. But challenges arose one late night when they had to get creative for dinner.
Episode 85: The Unclimbables
November 25, 2020 07:00 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBMo Beck was a professional climber who regularly won gold in competitions. But when she joined a team on a long expedition in the remote Cirque of the Unclimbables, she was amused to witness the tension between two of her fellow teammates...and the stinky solution.
Episode 84: Out On The Road
November 11, 2020 07:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBMikah Meyer grew up the son of a pastor and secretly struggled with his sexuality. But on a record-setting road trip to all of America's national parks, he realized its success hinged on being open about who he was.
Episode 83: The In-Between IV
October 28, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBThe leaves are scattering down the sidewalk and fog touches the tips of the trees. It's that time of year again when the shadows lengthen and we bring you stories that aren't quite human or all the way natural. Welcome to a most haunted theatre.
Episode 82: The Afrovivalist
October 14, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBSharon Ross wanted to be prepared for anything. But when she joined others getting ready for the end of the world, she found herself the odd one out. (more…)
Season 6 Preview
October 07, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.68 MBA glimpse of some of the stories coming your way this season, starting October 14. (more…)
Bonus Episode: The Source
September 23, 2020 06:00 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBClimate change is all over the news, from burning forests to melting ice sheets. But it can seem like a big, abstract problem. Writer Manasseh Franklin wanted to make the melting of glaciers more real to people. So on an Alaskan rafting trip, she followed water to its source. It’s a story from our archives that’s just as poignant—and humorous—today. (more…)
Bonus Episode: Row Row Row Your Boat. Or Not.
August 26, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes - 15 MBAs summer wanes, we’re reaching into the archives for a story about a classic summer activity: a leisurely river float. At least, that’s what it was supposed to be. But when they lost their guide, a group of tourists got more than they bargained for. (more…)
Bonus Episode: Tipping Point
August 05, 2020 06:00 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBWhile we work on new stories for this fall, here’s a summer favorite from 2019. Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho paddled thousands of miles in a canoe from Minneapolis to the shores of the Hudson Bay. The journey tested their physical strength – and the strength of their friendship. (more…)
Episode 81: The Ghost Of Africa
July 08, 2020 06:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBSouth Africans Chris Diedericks and Anna Calitz wanted to go on a romantic getaway, but their adventure broke down before it even began. (more…)
Episode 80: Starstruck
June 24, 2020 06:00 - 10 minutes - 9.3 MBJuan Martinez grew up in South Central L.A. in the early nineties. He was struggling to find his way until he traded detention for a pack of jalapeño seeds. Those led him all the way to the stars. (more…)
Episode 79: The Feeling Of Being Alive
June 10, 2020 06:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBBoyd Varty lives on a game reserve in South Africa near Kruger National Park. After his family began returning the land to its wild state, it awakened something wild in him, too. (more…)
Episode 78: Biking On Empty
May 21, 2020 06:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBAfter cycling across America, Taylor Thibodeau had a lifetime of adventures ahead of him…until a mysterious illness cut that short. Then he decided to adventure anyway. (more…)
Episode 77: Morley’s Vision
May 06, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBMorley Nelson delighted in watching raptors in aerial combat as they fought over nesting sites. And he made it his life’s mission to protect the part of Idaho’s Snake River with the highest nesting density of birds of prey in North America. This time, we’re bringing you a story from the new podcast Common Land to tell the story of how the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area was created. (more…)