The Wild Idea
By Wild Idea Media
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Episodes: 106
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The Wild Idea is an exploration of the intersection of wild nature and our own human nature. The hosts, Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds, through conversations with experts and thought leaders will dive into the ways that humans have both embraced and impact the function and vitality of our remaining wild places.
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The Past, Present and Future of The Roadless Rule
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: A Pipeline Executive Heads to Congress, SpaceX Eyes Refuge Land, and E&E News Loses a Quarter of Its Newsroom
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Trust for Public Land: Why Every Child Deserves Green Time
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Congress Shields Lead Ammo, ESA Exemptions on the Table, and a Georgia Seashore Fight
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Tim Mahoney: The Irish Wilderness and the Art of Passing a Bill
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Oil Drilling in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge, California Pipeline Restart, Scientists Release Suppressed Nature Report
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Terry Tempest Williams: Wildness, Ancestors, and the Holy Ordinary
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Border Wall through Big Bend, Proposed Forest Service Prescribed Fire in Wilderness, Montana Political Moves Impacting Public Lands
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Cole Mannix: Working Land Stewardship and Food Systems
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: BLM Nominee Hearing, Alaska Land Rollback, Lesser Prairie Chicken Ruling, and Roadless Rule Update
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Lawsuit Seeks End to NPS Censorship, Proposed Management Changes to the Flathead, Comments Due for Cumberland Island VUMP
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Trump Targets Northeast Marine Monument, USFS Reconsiders Public Comment, Illinois Rewilds
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Drilling Process Opens for ANWR, States Debate Colorado Basin Water Rights, Washington Post Slashes Climate Coverage
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Tongass Old-Growth Logging Advances, Alabama Reconsiders Water Quality, NPS Removes Signage Nationwide
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Andrew Thoms: The Tongass - America's Largest National Forest and a Key Roadless Landscape
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Could the Boundary Waters be Mined? Could Utah be Paved? Could Burgum end Bison Grazing?
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Peter Metcalf and Terry Tatsey: Blackfeet Nation Stewardship and a Living Landscape in the Badger–Two Medicine
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Boundary Waters Under Threat (Again), Cumberland Islands Considers Visitor Use, 25 Years of the Roadless Rule
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Bjorn Fredrickson & Raul Turrieta: The Roadless History of the World's First Designated Wilderness
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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The Wild Line: Logging Threatens Montana's Wild Rivers, Colorado Finds a Solution to Sackett
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Kristin Gendzier: The Roadless Rule's Southern Roots
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Chris Wood: Why We Have The Roadless Rule (Redux)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Michelle Fullner: Setting Resolutions with the Host of the Golden State Naturalist Podcast
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Sarah Francisco: From Working Lands to Wild Lands in the Southern Appalachians
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: House Passes SPEED Act, New Threats Emerge to Endangered Species, and States Move on Water Quality and Roadless Protections
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Anne Robinson: "Good News" Returns With Good Tidings
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Martha Williams: The Long Term View on Species Recovery
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Tribal Recognition in NC, Park Service Policy Shifts, Forest Service HQ to Utah?
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Chris Eyer: Muledragger
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Forest Service Reverses Recommendations, NPS Increases Fees, Montana Stands Against Mining
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Ben Goldfarb: Paving Paradise - How Roads Reshape the Wild
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Grounded In Traditions
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Trump Puts Wetlands and Wildlife at Risk, Congress Takes Step to Stymie Environmental Review
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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American Prairie, Part Two - A Wilder Future
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Shutdown Ends, Oil Companies Exploit Texas and Alaska, Colorado Prioritizes Protection
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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American Prairie, Part One - Wild on Purpose
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Malcolm Brooks: The Fallout from Ballot Box Biology
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Hirings, Firings and Protected Climbing Access
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Frank Uekötter: Red Lines in Green Politics | Moral Lessons in Conservation History
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Senators Talk Stewardship, Ranchers Eye Point Reyes, Absaroka-Beartooth Avoids Poison
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Barret Baumgart: The Desert is a Haunted House
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Wilderness Bills Advance, Trump Approves Izembek Road, Outdoor Alliance Takes DC
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Christopher Preston: Tenacious Beasts
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Shutdown Chaos, Arctic Flooding, Pigeon River Restoration
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Rachel Franchina: The People Powering Public Lands
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Ambler Road Approved, Resource Plans Nixed and Shutdown Fallout Deepens
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Joel Gill: Creation Care and the Common Good
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: The Government Shuts Down and a New Fat Bear Champion is Crowned
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Chris Keyes: Why Public Lands Need RE:PUBLIC
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Senate Approves Nominees, NPS Erases History, Blue Ridge Parkway Reopens
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Senator Tina Smith: You Can't Underestimate the Power of Place
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Advocates on the Hill, Last Day for Roadless Comments
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Conrad Anker: Mountains of Perspective
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Chief Links Roadless Rule and Wildfire, BLM Joins the Rescission Party
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Brooklyn Bridge Park: From Piers to Parklands
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Congress Targets Land Management Plans, EPA Silences Critics
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Chris Hill: Community Power for Public Lands
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Labor Day: The Human Cost of Federal Cuts
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Refuge Expansion Stopped, Act Now To Save The Roadless Rule
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Southern Currents: Environmental Injustice and Energy Innovation in Virginia
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Theodore Roosevelt IV: Americans for Alaska
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Southern Currents: Appalachia In Recovery
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Kim Bednarek: Community-Led Wins in the Okefenokee
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Reprieve for Hawaiian Marine Monument, Red Wolves Take Step Toward Recovery
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Southern Currents: Saving the Buffalo River Again...and Again
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Joe Whitson: Marketing the Wilderness
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Montana Rivers Protected, LWCF Threatened, Louisiana Wetlands Abandoned
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Southern Currents: Land Loss and Citizen Science on The Gulf Coast
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Blain and Monique Anderson: Sailing Alaska's Wilderness Waters
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Senators Slam USDA Reorg, New Parks Deep in the Heart of Texas
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Your Hosts Bill & Anders: You Ask - We Answer
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: USFS Reorg, Massive Cuts to Interior in House Budget Bill, Legal Win for Wildlife
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Josh Jackson: The Forgotten Lands Project
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Cristina Eisenberg: Humility as a Tool for Protection and Stewardship
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Oil Train Rolls in Utah, Merkley Asks for Wildfire Funds, Trump Targets Park History
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Tony Bynum: Conservation Through a Photographer's Lens
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Congress Wraps Up Reconciliation, Trump Eyes the Everglades, USDA Considers Nuking NEPA
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Anne Robinson: 'Good News' from the Appalachian Trail
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The Conservation Alliance: Outdoor Brands Make a Stand
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Okefenokee Swamp Saved, Trump Targets the Roadless Rule, Lee's Land Sale Hits a Snag
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Chris Wood: Roadless Rule Rescinded
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Martin Nie and Monte Mills: Not Just a Box to Check - Tribal Sovereignty and Co-Management
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Wildfire, Broken Promises and Reconciliation
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Tracy Stone-Manning: Promises Worth Defending
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Senate Draft Targets Millions of Acres, DOJ Clears Monument Rollbacks
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Randy Newberg: The Host of Fresh Tracks Offers Fresh Ideas on Advocacy and Access
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Lee and Daines talk land sales, Interior guts Science and opens Alaska to drilling
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Andis Arietta: The Uncertainty Inherent in Wilderness
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: SCOTUS approves mine on sacred ground; Burgum rewrites history
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May 30, 2025 |
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Jon Jarvis: Are Our National Parks Being Set Up To Fail?
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May 29, 2025 |
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Ingrid Lyons: Save the Boundary Waters, Join the National Wilderness Coalition
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May 27, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Burgum Defends Park Closures, Public Lands Survive Reconciliation (for now)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Senator Tim Kaine: Walk, Ride, Paddle, Protect!
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May 22, 2025 |
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Kaitie Schneider: Wolverines Reissued
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Wild Line: Bipartisan Pushback on Threats to Public Lands and the Endangered Species Act
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May 16, 2025 |
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Jose Gonzalez: Show Up and Be Curious
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May 13, 2025 |
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David Gessner: Roosevelt, Resistance and Reclaiming the Wild
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May 06, 2025 |
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Tim Manley: Grizzlies, Conflict, and Coexistence
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Drew Lanham: The Wild We Inherit, The Wild We Imagine
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Greg Aplet: Forests, Fire, and What is Wild
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Susan Jane Brown: The (Troubled) Future of the United States Forest Service
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Corina Newsome: The Wild All Around Us
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Nate Schweber: Public Lands History That Rhymes
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Hal Herring: Tailgate Conservation
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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The Icebreaker
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Trailer - An Introduction to The Wild Idea
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Mar 11, 2025 |