21. A Conversation with George Wuerthner, Part 2
George Wuerthner is an ecologist and expert on predators, especially wolf restoration. He is the former Ecological Project Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is currently the editor of Public Lands Media, a non-partisan source of ecological and conservation information. George is the author of 38 books and hundreds of articles on environmental issues. He received the Grassroots Activist of the year Award from the Fund for Wild Nature in 2017. A true leader of the environmental movement if there ever was one.
20. A Conversation with George Wuerthner, Part 1
George Wuerthner is an ecologist and expert on predators, especially wolf restoration. He is the former Ecological Project Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is currently the editor of Public Lands Media, a non-partisan source of ecological and conservation information. George is the author of 38 books and hundreds of articles on environmental issues. He received the Grassroots Activist of the year Award from the Fund for Wild Nature in 2017. A true leader of the environmental movement if there ever was one.
19. A Conversation with William Lynn, Part 2
William Lynn is the founder of PAN Works, an independent center for ethics and policy. Bill was a professor at Green Mountain College, Tufts University, and Williams College, where he taught courses in animal studies, environmental ethics, human geography, and public policy. He has written many academic and popular publications about wolf recovery, outdoor cats, biodiversity, rewilding, urban ecology, and on and on. He has also given many keynote presentations on ethic-based facilitations and training.
18. A Conversation with William Lynn
William Lynn is the founder of PAN Works, an independent center for ethics and policy. Bill was a professor at Green Mountain College, Tufts University, and Williams College, where he taught courses in animal studies, environmental ethics, human geography, and public policy. He has written many academic and popular publications about wolf recovery, outdoor cats, biodiversity, rewilding, urban ecology, and on and on. He has also given many keynote presentations on ethic-based facilitations and training.
17. A Conversation with Jonathan Ratner
Jonathan Ratner is the Director of Sage Steppe Wild, an environmental organization that protects and promotes wildlife and wildlands across the arid West, with a focus on ending livestock grazing on public lands. He is an expert on endangered species and carnivores. Having worked for Federal Land Management Agencies, he now uses his knowledge of their methods and practices against them, “to throw sand in the gears of these agencies,” as he says, in the service of non-human life on earth.
16. A Conversation with Kirk Robinson
Kirk Robinson is the founder of the Western Wildlife Conservancy, whose focus is the health and well-being of Utah’s ecosystems, including the ethical treatment of native carnivores. Prior to being the Executive Director of the Western Wildlife Conservancy, he was a professor of philosophy for 15 years. In 2004 he graduated from the Quincey College of law at the University of Utah, which is proving to be very useful for his work on behalf of wildlife conservation.
15. A Conversation with Alana Dodero
Alana Dodero is a PhD candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University. For more than 3 years she has been conducting both laboratory experiments and field measurements to better understand air quality and how human-made pollutants impact climate and public health. Currently, she is investigating how industrial hazardous air pollutants affect low-income communities in order to identify where more regulation is needed.
14. A Conversation with Mitch Friedman Part 2
Mitch Friedman is an American conservation biologist and activist who founded Conservation Northwest in 1989. He was a leader within the Washington Earth First movement during the 1980s and arrested many times for protecting Old Growth Forests. By 1990 Friedman was frustrated with the tactics and strategies of Earth First, so he began to develop new perspectives and programs for protecting wildlands and wildlife. In this interview we discuss his new book Conservation Confidential: A Wild Path to a Less Polarizing and More Effective Activism.
13. A Conversation with George Nickas
George Nickas is the executive director of the environmental organization Wilderness Watch headquartered in Missoula, Montana. Their focus is the preservation and proper care of America’s Wilderness Preservation System, which now includes around 112 million acres. Nickas, and those who work with him, have taken on the vital task of preventing the diminishment and loss of wilderness values. Wilderness Watch is focused on “keeping wilderness wild” and George explains in this interview much of what this goal entails.
12. A Conversation with David Parsons
David Parsons is a wildlife biologist and wildlife ecologist. He retired from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where he led the effort to reintroduce the Mexican gray wolf to its former range in the Southwest. Dave is an expert on the protection of large carnivores, and he serves as the Rewilding Institute’s Carnivore Conservation Biologist. He recently returned from a trip to Brazil’s Pantanal, looking for Jaguars. This interview focuses on wolves, about which he knows a lot.
11. A Conversation with Mitch Friedman
Mitch Friedman is an American conservation biologist and activist who founded Conservation Northwest in 1989. He was a leader within the Washington Earth First movement during the 1980s and arrested many times for protecting Old Growth Forests. By 1990 Friedman was frustrated with the tactics and strategies of Earth First, so he began to develop new perspectives and programs for protecting wildlands and wildlife. In this interview we discuss his new book Conservation Confidential: A Wild Path to a Less Polarizing and More Effective Activism.
10. A Conversation with Howie Wolke
Howie Wolke is an American wilderness advocate and defender. He was a co-founder of the original Earth First movement, and co-author with Dave Foreman of the classic book, “The Big Outside.” He also authored the important book, “Wilderness on the Rocks.” He is currently active with the environment organization, Wilderness Watch. He is the Ed Abbey of Montana because of his uncompromising love for true wilderness, and he has spent more than fifty years of his life protecting and expanding it.
9. A Conversation with Eric Niederkruger
Eric Niederkruger is a local activist, who has been engaged in a host of worthwhile causes for decades in Grand Junction: anti-war struggles, concern and care for the homeless, and environmental issues.
8. A Conversation with Harvey Locke, Part 2
Our conversation continues in Part 2. Harvey Locke is a global conservationist, co-founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) initiative, and the Nature Needs Half movement. As a lecturer and consultant on large landscape conservation, he participates in numerous international symposiums, congresses, and forums on biodiversity and wilderness.
7. A Conversation with Harvey Locke, Part 1
Harvey Locke is a global conservationist, co-founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) initiative, and the Nature Needs Half movement. As a lecturer and consultant on large landscape conservation, he participates in numerous international symposiums, congresses, and forums on biodiversity and wilderness.
11. A Conversation with Mitch Friedman
Mitch Friedman is an American conservation biologist and activist who founded Conservation Northwest in 1989. He was a leader within the Washington Earth First movement during the 1980s and arrested many times for protecting Old Growth Forests. By 1990 Friedman was frustrated with the tactics and strategies of Earth First, so he began to develop new perspectives and programs for protecting wildlands and wildlife. In this interview we discuss his new book Conservation Confidential: A Wild Path to a Less Polarizing and More Effective Activism.
10. A Conversation with Howie Wolke
Howie Wolke is an American wilderness advocate and defender. He was a co-founder of the original Earth First movement, and co-author with Dave Foreman of the classic book, “The Big Outside.” He also authored the important book, “Wilderness on the Rocks.” He is currently active with the environment organization, Wilderness Watch. He is the Ed Abbey of Montana because of his uncompromising love for true wilderness, and he has spent more than fifty years of his life protecting and expanding it.
9. A Conversation with Eric Niederkruger
Eric Niederkruger is a local activist, who has been engaged in a host of worthwhile causes for decades in Grand Junction: anti-war struggles, concern and care for the homeless, and environmental issues.
8. A Conversation with Harvey Locke
Harvey Locke is a global conservationist, co-founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) initiative, and the Nature Needs Half movement. As a lecturer and consultant on large landscape conservation, he participates in numerous international symposiums, congresses, and forums on biodiversity and wilderness.
7. A Conversation with Harvey Locke, Part 1
Harvey Locke is a global conservationist, co-founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) initiative, and the Nature Needs Half movement. As a lecturer and consultant on large landscape conservation, he participates in numerous international symposiums, congresses, and forums on biodiversity and wilderness.
6. A Conversation with Niquole Esters
Niquole Esters is an environmental conservationist with a passion for wildlife, geopolitics, and international relations, seeking to expose more people of color to nature, promoting inclusivity and diversity for a broader reimagining of conservation. She currently works for the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, with more than 15 years experience in coalition-building for a better world.
5. A Conversation with John Davis
John Davis is the director of the Rewilding Institute. He is an expert on Landscape Connectivity Mapping, based not only on his knowledge of the science of conservation biology, but on thousands of miles of walking across the wildest parts of the contiguous United States. His journeys have been made into a documentary film called, “Born to Rewild,” and published as an adventure book called, “TREKEAST.
4. A Conversation with Andy Kerr
Andy Kerr is a conservation advocate, consultant, lobbyist, lecturer, and writer, who has been described as “the Ralph Nader of the wilderness preservation movement,” and “the timber and cattle industry’s most hated man.” More revealing, he is a person who loves wilderness and wildlife, and whose environmental work on its behalf goes back 50 years.
3. A Conversation with Nick Allan
Community activist and founder of Better Together, Nick Allan helps connect local issues to the Earth.
2. A Conversation with Jenny Rechel
Wildlife biologist Jenny Rechel shares insights from her 40 years of experience working for a variety of state and federal agencies that manage public lands.
1. A Conversation with Jacob Richards
Community activist and publisher of The Revolutionist, Jacob Richards, discusses the progressive and radical history of the Grand Valley and his vision for an anti-capitalistic society.