Headwaters
Headwaters is a show about how Glacier National Park is connected to everything else.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 47
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
A Growly Bear and the Invention of Bear Spray
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…
00:35:39 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
Bonus | Vehicle Reservations
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.
00:17:26 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
Becoming | (Re)colonized
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.inst…
00:41:59 |
Wed 24 May 2023
Becoming | A Destination
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://glaci…
00:37:09 |
Wed 17 May 2023
Becoming | Landowners
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. …
00:53:09 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Becoming | Forgotten Soldiers
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…
00:42:29 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Becoming | Empire Builders
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…
00:51:03 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Becoming | A Market Place
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/head…
00:53:58 |
Wed 19 Apr 2023
Becoming | Portraits of the West
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 pa…
00:32:34 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
Becoming | Unfrozen
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…
00:55:44 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
Becoming | Stained by History
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…
00:33:23 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Becoming | Prologue
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 Cons…
00:40:09 |
Mon 03 Apr 2023
Becoming | Trailer
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…
00:01:26 |
Wed 22 Mar 2023
Whitebark Pine | Chapter Five
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: http…
00:35:15 |
Sun 13 Feb 2022
Whitebark Pine | Chapter Four
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 pi…
00:38:43 |
Sun 06 Feb 2022
Whitebark Pine | Chapter Three
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/…
00:47:38 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
Whitebark Pine | Chapter Two
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.treehu…
00:38:21 |
Sun 23 Jan 2022
Whitebark Pine | Chapter One
Journey across the Flathead Indian Reservation to the most important tree you’ve never heard of.
The Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/
Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation: https://whitebar…
00:31:40 |
Sun 16 Jan 2022
Whitebark Pine | Trailer
Season Two documents the generational effort to restore whitebark pine in five chapters. It’s also a story about the purpose of national parks and our relationship with nature. We ask, can people hav…
00:00:56 |
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Confluence | North Fork
In this episode, the Flathead River reveals our own notions of wilderness, and remarkable fossils. We learn about a glacier with a complicated past—and we climb to a mountaintop to learn that even th…
01:03:42 |
Sun 06 Dec 2020
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