Latest Glacier national park Podcast Episodes

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Climate and the Cryosphere with Dr. Caitlyn Florentine

Headwaters - April 02, 2024 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
A conversation with Dr. Caitlyn Florentine, research physical scientist with the US Geological Survey, who studies snow and ice in Glacier. This episode was recorded in May 2023. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ St...

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Climate and Community with Mike Durglo, Jr.

Headwaters - March 19, 2024 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
A conversation with Mike Durglo, Jr., climate coordinator and head of Historic Preservation for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. This episode was recorded in September of 2023. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/fra...

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Climate Interpretation with Diane Sine

Headwaters - March 05, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
A conversation with longtime interpretive ranger Diane Sine about a lifetime of watching change in Glacier. This episode was recorded in May of 2023. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Stella Nall art: https://www.i...

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Glacier’s Bats: A Story of Grief and Hope

Headwaters - February 20, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
The twin stories of bats facing white-nose syndrome in Glacier, and a volunteer who dedicated so much of his life to studying them. With disease and decline on the horizon for bats, what does the future look like? This episode is in memory of Lewis Young. Headwaters is created by Dan...

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Does Hiking Impact Wildlife? Check the Camera

Headwaters - February 06, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
What do animals do when we’re not around? One way to answer that is by using remote cameras. By focusing on two camera studies in Glacier, we learn more about two animals in the park, and those of us who visit it. Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, an...

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Chasing Waterfalls: The Search for Glacier’s Hidden Wildlife

Headwaters - January 23, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Chasing one of Glacier’s most elusive species, and getting comfortable in the dark. This is the story of Black Swifts in Glacier. Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sasnett. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln m...

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Art, Science, and Alpine Potatoes

Headwaters - January 09, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
The cutest animal in Glacier may be at risk of disappearing, but it's hard to study an animal that lives under rocks, high in the mountains. How can we understand the hidden parts of the world around us? Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sas...

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Surviving a Near-Death Fall in a National Park

Headwaters - December 19, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Morgan Bell spent 10 seasons working on Glacier’s trail crews—one of the toughest and most demanding jobs in the park. Until a single day—a single step—changed everything. Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sasnett. Glacier Conservancy: h...

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Living Seasonally: Advice from a Lifelong Ranger

Headwaters - December 05, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
We sit down with Chuck Cameron, a lifelong Glacier Ranger, to learn about his incredible and unusual career. Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sasnett. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.ins...

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Can Ranger Traditions Survive into the Future?

Headwaters - November 21, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
We meet a ranger who lives in one of the wildest corners of Glacier—a place where age-old tools and skills are still practiced daily. But do traditional skills, or this way of life, still have a place in a rapidly-evolving world? Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, G...

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A Growly Bear and the Invention of Bear Spray

Headwaters - November 07, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Bear spray saves lives, but where does it come from? We follow a Glacier grizzly to learn the story. Learn how to use bear spray, in the St. Mary episode of Season One: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/confluence-st-mary/id1542669779?i=1000501502018 Headwaters is created by Danie...

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Bonus | Vehicle Reservations

Headwaters - June 13, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
As parks become more and more popular, what do we want the visitor experience to be like? In this bonus episode, learn how Glacier is trying to answer this question.

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Becoming | (Re)colonized

Headwaters - May 24, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
A young national park wages biological warfare and nature finds a way. This is a history of wolves in Glacier. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art: https://www.instagram.com/esccarlson/ Behind the sc...

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Becoming | A Destination

Headwaters - May 17, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
This is the history of how a corporation marketed Glacier National Park into existence. We use art to study how the Blackfeet took control of their own histories. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art...

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Becoming | Landowners

Headwaters - May 10, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
The twin stories of homesteading and allotment explored through baking and quilting analogies. How Euro-Americans came to settle inside the Glacier National Park and inside the Flathead Reservation. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instag...

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Becoming | Forgotten Soldiers

Headwaters - May 03, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Why doesn’t anyone remember the first rangers? We trace a Buffalo Soldiers expedition across the park and ask how history becomes preserved. Yosemite’s A Buffalo Soldier Speaks Podcast: https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/historyculture/buffspodcast16-30.htm Learn about African Americans ...

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Becoming | Empire Builders

Headwaters - April 26, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
The Great Northern Railway changed Northwest Montana forever. Who else but Americans could have built it? Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art: https://www.instagram.com/esccarlson/ Behind the scenes...

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Becoming | A Market Place

Headwaters - April 19, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
We biography Joe Kipp and join an archeological adventure in order to understand the fur trade. Then, music helps heal the traumatic legacy of history. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art: https://w...

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Becoming | Portraits of the West

Headwaters - April 12, 2023 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Lewis and Clark are celebrated yet controversial. If you know what to look for, their names still echo through the park today. We examine their legacy from a variety of perspectives. Edgar Paxson painting: https://mhsmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/1885CEC9-39C3-4B45-889D-24247980...

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Becoming | Unfrozen

Headwaters - April 05, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Tracking down 600 generations of history. We venture out to the edge of the Ice Age to see how people lived and loved when this place was buried in glaciers. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art: http...

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Becoming | Stained by History

Headwaters - April 04, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Glacier has a history of oil extraction. We travel to Many Glacier to see the consequences, and the causes of climate change. Along the way we talk to young people about how it feels to live with the weight of history. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln musi...

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Becoming | Prologue

Headwaters - April 03, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Consider this an extended warm up for season three of Headwaters. This episode includes two interviews about time, landscape, and history, that set the stage for the next nine to come. Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankw...

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Becoming | Trailer

Headwaters - March 22, 2023 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Season Three of Headwaters is a history of Glacier National Park. From whiskey running and the war on wolves, to drilling for oil and dreaming of riches, this is a collection of stories about how one place in the Rocky Mountains became what it is today.

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Highline - Visiting Glacier in August 2022

Headwaters - August 15, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
For a few short weeks, the mountains are open. In this bonus episode, a quick look at current conditions in Glacier, and some helpful trip planning information if you're coming to the park soon. Vehicle Reservation Information: https://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/gtsrticketedentry....

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Huckleberries - Visiting Glacier in July 2022

Headwaters - July 13, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
The park is opening up, and Montana's most famous plant is ripening. In this bonus episode, a quick look at current conditions in Glacier, and some helpful trip planning information if you're coming to the park soon. Vehicle Reservation Information: https://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit...

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Rain - Visiting Glacier in June 2022

Headwaters - June 21, 2022 04:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
What is it like in Glacier right now? The answer has been: Rainy. In this bonus episode, a quick look at current conditions in Glacier, and some helpful trip planning information if you're coming to the park soon. Vehicle Reservation Information: https://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisi...

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Whitebark Pine | Chapter Five

Headwaters - February 13, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Trees, fish, and ferrets—what is our relationship with nature? The Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/ Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation: https://whitebarkfound.org/ Revive and Restore: https://reviverestore.org/ Pictures of whitebark pine: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWJ2S4F Ben Cosgro...

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Whitebark Pine | Chapter Four

Headwaters - February 06, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Collecting pinecones, planting seeds, and other acts of hope. The Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/ Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation: https://whitebarkfound.org/ Pictures of whitebark pine: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWJ2S4F Ben Cosgrove Music: https://www.bencosgrove.com/ See m...

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Whitebark Pine | Chapter Three

Headwaters - January 30, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
Mountain pine beetles, an invasive fungus, and climate change—is whitebark pine doomed? The Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/ Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation: https://whitebarkfound.org/ American Chestnut book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520259942/american-chestnut Docu...

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Whitebark Pine | Chapter Two

Headwaters - January 23, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 367 ratings
An entire ecosystem held together by one tree. The Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/ Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation: https://whitebarkfound.org/ Tree Huggers Comedy: https://www.treehuggerscomedy.com/ Picture of Clark’s Nutcracker: https://flic.kr/p/2mqRdzH Ben Cosgrove Mus...

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