WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE
189 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago -WILDERNESS AND WILDLIFE is a series of recorded half-hour interviews with wildlife experts, activists, government representatives, academics, non-profit organization executives and others, focusing on North American wildlife and their mountain, forest and marine habitats -advocating the saving of animals, birds and other creatures and the environments that are of importance for their survival and enhancement. Listen to this WILDERNESS AND WILDLIFE podcast to hear about Grizzlies and Bison, Orcas and Eagles, endangered Forests, Plains, Waterways and connectivity passages that are important for migration and habitat. Subscribe to WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE ON any podcast platform. ForAccess to ALL 80+ interviews over the past 2 years, plus MORE about W&W, subscribe to our website at jswilderness5.net. First 2 months are FREE.
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Episodes
Bob Crabtree - Yellowstone Research Center
September 17, 2020 22:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBBob Casey talks about the scientific research being done to understand the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as a model for ecological recovery. Support the Show.
Dan Casey - Northern Great Plains Joint Venture
September 17, 2020 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBNumerous agencies cooperate to preserve and provide habitat for upland birds and waterfowl in the vast region of the northern great plains, working with farmers and ranchers to plan for success in the future. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Dr. William Moomaw - Deforestation - Part 1
September 17, 2020 22:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBForests 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. Support the Show.
Dr. William Moomaw on Deforestation - Part 2
September 17, 2020 22:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBIn Part 2, Dr. Moomaw talks about the importance of saving the Western forests. Support the Show.
MICHAEL kELLETT, Restore
May 31, 2020 03:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBMichael Kellett is the Founder and Executive Director of Restore, a group that seeks to restore wilderness protection to the wildlands of America with designation of new national parks and expansion of existing park borders. Restore's focus is on the wildlands of the East, and particularly the Appalachian Mountain Range. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
WOODY MOSES on Orcas
May 31, 2020 03:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBWoody Moses is an environmental instructor at Highline College in Des Moines, WA. He has been studying Orcas for years and talks about their condition here In Puget Sound. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
MICHAEL KELLETT, Restore
May 31, 2020 03:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBMichael Kellett is the Founder and Executive Director of Restore, a group that seeks to restore wilderness protection to the wildlands of America with designation of new national parks and expansion of existing park borders. Restore's focus is on the wildlands of the East, and particularly the Appalachian Mountain Range. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
ROD NASH, Author
May 18, 2020 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBRoderick Frazier Nash id professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. In the wake of the 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, Rod was one of the authors of the “Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights ” to acknowledge human-caused environmental harms and our enormous powers to alter the world. Among other works, Rod is best known for Wilderness & the American Mind, first published in 1967 and now in its fifth editi...
Collette Adkins
May 05, 2020 23:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBCollette Adkins is a Senior Attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity and Carnivore Conservation Director for the Center for Biological Diversity. Collette works in the Endangered Species Program, where she focuses on combating exploitation and cruel treatment of rare wildlife. She received her law degree from the University of Minnesota, where she also earned a master's degree in wildlife conservation. Before joining the Center, Collette was in private practice, where her pro bono wo...
TIERRA CURRY - CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - Defending the ESA
April 30, 2020 03:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBAttorney Tierra Curry works for the Center for Biological Diversity to defend the Endangered Species Act against attempts by the Trump Administration to negate its protections of many wildlife species. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Stephany Seay. Buffalo Field Campaign
April 10, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBJust outside West Yellowstone, Montana, Buffalo Field Campaign works to save wandering buffalo from being hazed. Field workers monitor buffalo movements and try to keep them safe when crossing the highway to birthing grounds over by Hebgen Lake. They also try to protect buffalo from being shot outside of Gardner at the north entrance to Yellowstone. Stephany (BFC Media Corrdinator) talks about the work of BFC and what their ultimate goal is for the buffalo. Support the show (https://www.p...
CARL SAFINA
April 10, 2020 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBAuthor Carl Safina talks about his book: Beyond Words - What Animals Think and Feel, discussing the behavior of elephants, wolves, dolphins and other animals. Carl teaches at Stony Brook University on Long Island and has travelled the world to investigate the emotional traits and behavior of many different species. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Retired Ranger Joe Gutkoski - and Fire
March 20, 2020 23:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBJoe Gutkoski spent his entire career working for the U.S. Forest Service, early on as a firefighter and later as a landscape planner. In this episode, he talks about his days fighting fire in various places in the Rocky Mountains and describes what that experience was like in an earlier time. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Randy Serraglio - Center for BiologicalDiversity
March 12, 2020 18:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBRandy Serraglio is the Southwest Conservation Advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity who works on a variety of campaigns. . A veteran of many environmental and human rights campaigns, he holds a bachelor's in Latin American studies from the University of Arizona. He has been a staff member of the Center for Biological Diversity since 2008.He has been a staff member of the Center for Biological Diversity since 2008.In this interview, we talk with Randy about the Border Wall advocate...
KYA MARIENFIELD - SO,. UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE
March 02, 2020 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBKya talks about the Trump Administration's efforts to allow mining and O&G drilling on public lands in Southern Utah - and SUWA's efforts to protect and preserve these pristine wildlands where not only Bear's Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments are threatened but also the vast BLM lands of the Colorado Plateau. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
RICHARD LOUV, author: Our Wild Calling
February 22, 2020 01:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBAuthor of ten books having o do with human-animal relationships, Richard is a prolific journalist who tells remarkable stories of how people and animals co-exist and have developed a mutually dependent relationship in our modern world. He advocates the importance of children's experiences with nature and wildlife and is founder of the Children & Nature Network. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
GARY TABOR - Saving Large Landscapes in the West
February 17, 2020 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBGary Tabor is Executive Director of the Center for Large Landscapes Conservation in Bozeman, Montana and works to preserve large pristine wildlands for human enjoyment and the enhancement of wildlife populations. Here, Gary talks about the importance of these wildlands, especially in the West, and how his organization worlds with local communities to insure their preservation. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Dr. Jim Bailey
February 14, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MBDr. Bailey talks about his plan to introduce "wild" bison to the C.M Russell Wildlife Reserve in northern Montana of the prairie grassland adjacent to the Upper Missouri River. Wild bison are bison that roam freely and unmanaged and unrestricted and bear the pristine genome that is quite rare. Jim is a retired wildlife biologist who served on the faculty of Colorado State University in Fort Collins and has now led the creation of the Montana Wild Bison Recreation Commission. Support the sh...
Randy Carpenter on Growth
February 13, 2020 01:00 - 28 minutes - 6.59 MBSteve Hoffman, founder of Hawkwatch International and formerly Executive Director of the Montana Audubon Society, is now in the business of leading birding tours throughout world under the banner of Merlin Birding. He has just received the PRIME award from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and was honored at an awards ceremony in Bozeman on August 27. Steve talks about the dangers that raptors are currently facing and about other issues affecting various species of birds on the western landscape....
TORREY RITTER talks Beaver
February 05, 2020 01:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBTorrey Ritter is a Wildlife Biologist for the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.He has done graduate work studying Beaver and talks about his studies of this unique rodent and its engineering contribution to the environment. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Snoqualmie Pass Wildlife Overcrossing
January 19, 2020 18:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBForest Service Officer Patty Garvey-Darda and Transportation officer Brian White discuss the building of the wildlife overpass east of Snoqualmie Pass on I-90. They talk about the tremendous cooperation between the agencies and how the overpass is now being used. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
DIANE GALLEGOS - WOLF HAVEN
January 12, 2020 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
SEAN STEVENS - OREGON WILD
January 12, 2020 23:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Casey McLean - Sealife R3
December 19, 2019 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBCasey McLean, the founder and director of Sealife Response, Rehabilitation and Research Center on the west shore of Puget Sound, talks about the work Sealife R3 is doing to rescue and save Marine mammals and turtles in the Salish Sea and Pacific NW. No hospital for marine mammals currently exists along the Oregon-Washingtn coast so Sealife R3 has one proposed for the area south of Seattle. Orcas (Killer Whales) are a particular concern since their numbers in the Sound are decreasing due to a...
Rus Higley - Marine Science & Technology Center
December 09, 2019 20:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBRus Higley is Director of the Marine Science and Technology Center, a facility operated by Highland College on the shore of Puget Sound. The Center houses multiple displays of marine life and conducts various kinds of marine programs including underwater interviews with divers as they explore the nearby waters. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Torrey Ritter - Montana Biologist talks Beaver
December 09, 2019 19:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBMontana FWP biologist Torrey Ritter talks about beaver, the amazing engineer that was almost wiped out across the U.S. a century ago - and its amazing comeback. Beaver interact with the natural environment and help to maintain wetlands and stream habitat for other creatures of the forest and waterways. Support the show
Mitch Friedman - Conservation Northwest
December 09, 2019 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBMitch Friedman talks about the work Conservation Northwest is doing to protect wildlands from encroachment by development and invasive uses and how they are fostering wildlife in Washington and British Columbia, especially wolves, grizzly bears and fishers. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Dr. Cathy Whitlock on Climate Change
November 30, 2019 18:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBMSU Professor Dr. Cathy Whitlock talks about the threat climate change (I.e. global warming) poses for the planet and the ability of wildlife and people to adjust. Coastal cities will be threatened with flooding and climate will be affected with severe storms and drought. Government action needs to occur immediately before it becomes to late to recover. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
MOUNTAIN lION FOUNDATION - BOB MCCOY
November 19, 2019 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBSupport the show
Robb Krehbiel - Defenders of Wildlife
November 19, 2019 20:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBRobb Krehbiel, NW representative for Defenders of Wildlife, talks about the work Defenders is doing to protect Orcas and Grizzlies in Washington and about his specialty, protection of public lands. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Bob McCoy - Mountain Lion Foundation
November 11, 2019 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBSupport the show
MOUNTAIN LION FOUNDATION - BOB MCCOY
November 11, 2019 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBSupport the show
Snoqualmiie Pass Wildlife Overpass
November 09, 2019 00:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBForest Service Officer Patty Garbey-Darda and Dept. of Transportation official Brian White discuss the construction of the wildlife overpass across I-90, just east of Snoqualmie Pass - and its importance for avoiding wildlife-vehicle collisions on the highway. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Greg Costello - Wildlands Network
October 18, 2019 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWildlands Network performs wildlife conservation work all across the United States and Mexico. Its staff emphasizes the importance of corridor connectivity for wildlife movements and is a strong advocate of federal legislation known as the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Yellowstone Wolf Biologist Doug Smith
September 19, 2019 18:00 - 14 minutes - 9.92 MBDoug Smith talks about wolves. He is Wolf Conservation Manager for Yellowstone National Park and has been with the National Park Service for nearly forty years. He has been in Yellowstone since 1994 and is currently project leader for the Yellowstone Grey Wolf Restoration Project. Doug was heavily involved in the wolf reintroduction in 1995. He is a Senior Wildlife Biologist in Yellowstone National Park and supervises the wolf, bird, and elk programs, formerly three jobs now combined into on...
Dr. Rob Ament on Wildlife Highway Crossings
September 19, 2019 17:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBRob Ament talks about safe highway crossings for wildlife and the research being done at the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University. Rob leads efforts to research, monitor and develop solutions to ecology-related transportation issues. He manages over 20 active road ecology research projects throughout North America and currently serves on five national and international committees and boards. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)
Steve Kelly - Alliance for the Wild Rockies
September 17, 2019 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBSupport the show
Yellowstone Superintendant Cam Sholly
September 12, 2019 23:00 - 21 minutes - 7.13 MBSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25149153)