WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE
WILDERNESS AND WILDLIFE is a series of recorded half-hour interviews with wildlife experts, activists, government representatives, academics, non-profit organization executives and others, focusing on North American wildlife and their mountain, forest and marine habitats -advocating the saving of animals, birds and other creatures and the environments that are of importance for their survival and enhancement. Listen to this WILDERNESS AND WILDLIFE podcast to hear about Grizzlies and Bison, Orcas and Eagles, endangered Forests, Plains, Waterways and connectivity passages that are important for migration and habitat. Subscribe to WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE ON any podcast platform. ForAccess to ALL 80+ interviews over the past 2 years, plus MORE about W&W, subscribe to our website at jswilderness5.net. First 2 months are FREE.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 160
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Nicole Whittington-Evans - Defenders of Wildlife-Alaska
Nicole Whittington-Evans is Field Program Director for the Defenders of Wildlife in Alaska. Nicole started her environmental career studying and working on wildlife issues. She received her master’s …
DOUG PEACOCK - SHADOW OF THE SABRETOOTH
Doug is the author of In the Shadow of the Sabretooth and, with his wife Andrea, co-authored the book The Essential Grizzly. Doug also writes extensively for magazines, including Audubon, Backpacker …
AMARAQ WEISS - DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE - WOLVES
Amaraq Weiss is Senior Wolf Advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, specializing in Wolf Conservation. The recent delisting of Gray Wolves has allowed Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and other state…
BRIAN BIRD - Defenders of Wildlife - Update on the Border Wall
Brian keeps tabs on the status of the Border Wall from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, the Wall that Trump wanted to build, Biden stopped and Abbott wants to start building again, the wall that disr…
JOHN MEYER, an environmental attorney in Bozeman, litigates for the river.
The Gallatin River flows north from Yellowstone and passes by Big Sky, a resort that won't stop growing and dumps toxic effluent into the river. It takes time but John, attorney with Cottonwood Law, …
PAULA MACKAY, a writer from Bainbridge Island, talks about wildlife and nature writing.
Paula is a professional writer who writes about marine and terrestrial wildlife. She talks about her entry into the field and they training she took to become a published author and writer.
DOUG PEACOCK - Prehistoric Megafauna in No. America & Clovis People
Based on his book, In the Shadow of the Sabretooth, Doug talks about the prehistoric megafauna encountered by immigrants to NA about 15,000 years ago when the climate changed - and why those large an…
NICOLE WHITTINGTON EVANS, Defenders of Wildlife in SE Alaska
Working for Defenders of Wildlife out of Palmer, Alaska, Nicole, started her environmental career studying and working on wildlife issues. She received her master’s degree in Environmental Studies fr…
AMANDA LOLLAR II
Amanda Lollar, Founder and President of Bat World Sanctuary in Weatherford, Texas, continues her interview about bats - how she came to start the Sanctuary in Texas that has been rehabilitating bats…
VANCE MARTIN
Vance Martin, President of the Wild Foundation, based in Boulder, Colorado. Vance joined WILD as president in 1984 after 15 years in international business and non-profit management. An innovative le…
AMANDA LOLLAR, Bat World Sanctuary
Amanda Lollar, Founder and President of Bat World Sanctuary in Weatherford, Texas, talks about bats - and how she came to start the Sanctuary in Texas that has been rehabilitating bats from all a…
DOUG PEACOCK - More on Grizzlies
Doug Peacock is a renowned grizzly bear expert and nature writer. A Vietnam vet and former Green Beret medic, his memoirs, The Grizzly Years and Walking it Off, chronicle the healing of his war-torn…
DOUG PEACOCK 1 - GRIZZLIES
Doug Peacock is a renowned grizzly bear expert and nature writer. A Vietnam vet and former Green Beret medic, his memoirs, The Grizzly Years and Walking it Off, chronicle the healing of his war-torn…
Sarah Killingsworth - Ethics of Wildlife Photography/Bobcats
Sarah Killingsworth is a San Francisco Bay Area-based California Naturalist, a Wildlife Educator with Project Coyote, and conservation photographer. She is a frequent public speaker about coexistenc…
Jeffrey Hunter - Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Jay’s guest today is Jeffrey Hunter, a senior program manager with National Parks & Conservation Association (NPCA) in Asheville, NC where he works on issues related to Great Smoky Mountains National…
Dr. Joanna Lambert - Primates
Dr. Joanna Lambert is Professor, Environmental Studies Program in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Colorado. She talks with us today about her work with primates in …
Myles Traphagen - Update on Border Wall
Jay talks with Myles Traphagen, Borderlands Program Coordinator for the Wildlands Network. Myles works out of Tucson and has over twenty years of experience working in the borderlands, working to pro…