The Wild Idea
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The Wild Line: Farm Bill Text Features Wilderness Designations, Interior Rolls Back Drilling Safeguards, and NPS Restricts Reporting on Fatalities
Jun 26, 202614 min
Fault Lines: Exploring Wilderness Climbing Management
Jun 25, 202646 min
Dillon Osleger: The Hidden Histories Beneath America's Trails
Jun 23, 202655 min
The Wild Line: New Wilderness Directives, Congress Approves $2 Billion for Parks, Former Big Bend Supervisors Fight Border Wall
Jun 19, 202612 min
Sheena Pate: The Rivers That Launched the Wild and Scenic Act
Jun 16, 202636 min
The Wild Line: Trump Targets Recommended Wilderness, Lee Launches Attack on Roadless, Interior Designates New Trails
Jun 12, 202621 min
Kaitlin de Varona: Stewardship as a Form of Advocacy
Jun 9, 202652 min
The Wild Line: Trump Repeals Motorized Protections, the CRA comes for Utah, Appropriators Slash Funding for National Parks
Jun 5, 202619 min
Jaime Loucky: 60 Years of Stewarding Trails in the Evergreen State
Jun 2, 202650 min
The Wild Line: Wildlife Fare Well in Transportation Bill, Park Fees Redirected to DC, a Warning on Wildfire Season
May 29, 202613 min
Tracy Stone-Manning Returns: Don't Mourn, Organize
May 26, 202635 min
The Wild Line: Pearce Confirmed for BLM, Cyanide Bombs Return to Public Lands, Kash Patel Dives Pearl Harbor
May 22, 202616 min
John Leshy: The Hollowing Out of America’s Public Lands
May 19, 202651 min
The Wild Line: Public Lands Rule Rescinded, Right Whale and Roadless Rule Hearings Loom, and Wins in Colorado and New Mexico
May 15, 202612 min
Gregg Treinish & Lara Birkes: Turning Adventure into Conservation Data
May 12, 202648 min
The Wild Line: Pearce Nomination Heads to Senate Floor, American Prairie Permit Battle, Alaska Land Transfer, and Ted Turner's Legacy
May 8, 20268 min
Autumn Gillard & Steve Bloch: Tribal Voices and the Fight to Save Grand Staircase - Escalante
May 5, 202649 min
The Wild Line: Trump Pulls NPS Nominee, Appalachian Groups Sue Over Corridor H, and the Forest Service Embraces Glyphosate
May 1, 202613 min
Dalton George: The Hellbender, The High Country, and the Fight to Keep Appalachia Wild
Apr 28, 202633 min
The Wild Line: Advocates Notch a Win for Endangered Species, the Forest Service Considers Chainsaws and Mining in Wilderness
Apr 24, 202613 min
Jessica Howell-Edwards & Dani Purvis: Fighting for the Wild Soul of Cumberland Island
Apr 21, 202644 min
The Wild Line: GOP Approves Mining in the Boundary Waters, USFS Faces Questions on Reorganization, SELC Sues the God Squad
Apr 17, 202611 min
Dr. Erica Smithwick: Fire, Climate, and Forest Resilience in the East
Apr 14, 202648 min
The Wild Line: Trump Budget Targets Parks, USDA Consolidates NEPA Rules, and Three Key Public Lands Votes Loom in Congress
Apr 10, 202616 min
Dr. William Keeton: Carbon, Complexity, and the Future of Old Growth
Apr 7, 202648 min
The Wild Line: U.S. Forest Service Overhaul, Interior Aims to Drill Chaco Canyon, Protections for Rice's Whale Lifted
Apr 3, 202620 min
The Past, Present and Future of The Roadless Rule
Mar 31, 20261h 24m
The Wild Line: A Pipeline Executive Heads to Congress, SpaceX Eyes Refuge Land, and E&E News Loses a Quarter of Its Newsroom
Mar 27, 202613 min
Trust for Public Land: Why Every Child Deserves Green Time
Mar 24, 202653 min
The Wild Line: Congress Shields Lead Ammo, ESA Exemptions on the Table, and a Georgia Seashore Fight
Mar 20, 202616 min
Tim Mahoney: The Irish Wilderness and the Art of Passing a Bill
Mar 17, 202652 min
The Wild Line: Oil Drilling in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge, California Pipeline Restart, Scientists Release Suppressed Nature Report
Mar 13, 202610 min
Terry Tempest Williams: Wildness, Ancestors, and the Holy Ordinary
Mar 10, 202653 min
The Wild Line: Border Wall through Big Bend, Proposed Forest Service Prescribed Fire in Wilderness, Montana Political Moves Impacting Public Lands
Mar 6, 202615 min
Cole Mannix: Working Land Stewardship and Food Systems
Mar 3, 202641 min
The Wild Line: BLM Nominee Hearing, Alaska Land Rollback, Lesser Prairie Chicken Ruling, and Roadless Rule Update
Feb 27, 202611 min
The Wild Line: Lawsuit Seeks End to NPS Censorship, Proposed Management Changes to the Flathead, Comments Due for Cumberland Island VUMP
Feb 20, 20268 min
The Wild Line: Trump Targets Northeast Marine Monument, USFS Reconsiders Public Comment, Illinois Rewilds
Feb 13, 202616 min
The Wild Line: Drilling Process Opens for ANWR, States Debate Colorado Basin Water Rights, Washington Post Slashes Climate Coverage
Feb 6, 202610 min
The Wild Line: Tongass Old-Growth Logging Advances, Alabama Reconsiders Water Quality, NPS Removes Signage Nationwide
Jan 30, 202615 min
Andrew Thoms: The Tongass - America's Largest National Forest and a Key Roadless Landscape
Jan 27, 202642 min
The Wild Line: Could the Boundary Waters be Mined? Could Utah be Paved? Could Burgum end Bison Grazing?
Jan 23, 202610 min
Peter Metcalf and Terry Tatsey: Blackfeet Nation Stewardship and a Living Landscape in the Badger–Two Medicine
Jan 20, 202646 min
The Wild Line: Boundary Waters Under Threat (Again), Cumberland Islands Considers Visitor Use, 25 Years of the Roadless Rule
Jan 16, 202615 min
Bjorn Fredrickson & Raul Turrieta: The Roadless History of the World's First Designated Wilderness
Jan 15, 202635 min
The Wild Line: Logging Threatens Montana's Wild Rivers, Colorado Finds a Solution to Sackett
Jan 9, 202611 min
Kristin Gendzier: The Roadless Rule's Southern Roots
Jan 8, 202654 min
Chris Wood: Why We Have The Roadless Rule (Redux)
Jan 6, 202640 min
Michelle Fullner: Setting Resolutions with the Host of the Golden State Naturalist Podcast
Dec 30, 202532 min
Sarah Francisco: From Working Lands to Wild Lands in the Southern Appalachians
Dec 23, 202539 min