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How Wild

How Wild hits trails around the country, exploring the meaning of wilderness. A century ago, the U.S. set aside the first official wilderness. You"ll hear stories from rangers, scientists, hikers, environmentalists, and Tribal leaders as they grapple with the realities of wilderness on a changing planet, and whether the concept of "wilderness" has ever really existed.

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59:33

Wild Times: Live Event with Former Parks Director Jon...

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2025/08/01

Been camping or hiking in a national park this summer? It's pretty wild right now. In the midst of their busiest season, national parks and other public lands are under-staffed and facing massive budget cuts.Former National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis spoke with How Wild's Marissa Ortega-Welch about the threats to public lands right now and shared his insights from forty years of working within the agency.This interview was recorded live at KALW Public Media on July 22, 2025.Learn more about

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Wild Times: Rewriting History in National Parks

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2025/08/01

Noticed any changes to signs in your local national park?An exhibit at California's Muir Woods National Monument was recently edited because of a Trump executive order banning any types of content — like exhibits, signs, books in the gift shop — that "inappropriately disparage" people in American history.This isn't the first time that a national park exhibit has been affected because of Trump's policies though and park rangers and historians are speaking out.This interview first aired on KALW's

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Wild Times: An Update On National Parks Under Trump

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2025/05/22

It's wild times, y'all. Just as we're getting ready to go hiking and camping this summer, national parks and forests are facing the biggest staff and budget cuts in history under the Trump administration. In this interview, How Wild host Marissa Ortega-Welch shares what she's been hearing from park and forest rangers, biologists, and custodians about how these cuts will impact the nation's public lands.This interview originally aired on KALW Public Media's Crosscurrents on May 15, 2025.Learn more

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How Wild Presents: The Wild with Chris Morgan

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2024/12/12

It may not be designated capital "W" wilderness, but the ocean is an incredibly wild place.We're sharing an episode about the ocean from The Wild with Chris Morgan, produced by our friends at KUOW. The Wild is about the wonders of our natural world and the people working to protect it. On this episode, Chris takes us to Biscayne National Park off the coast of Florida to see how scientists are trying to restore one of the world's largest coral reefs. If you like this episode, find more at

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How Wild Presents: "The New Space Race" from Outside/In

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2024/10/07

What if the next time you were in wilderness looking at the sky on a clear, dark night, you saw more visible satellites than stars? What if the Big Dipper and Orion were drowned out by a satellite traffic jam, criss-crossing through space?More satellites are being launched into space than ever before. And as they become more common, they're changing the experience of looking at the night sky and raising questions about who regulates the stuff we put up there. We think about how to protect the

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30:13

Wild Ideas

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2024/09/24

How wild? We don't have the foggiest idea. In this final episode of season one, we go to California's Point Reyes National Seashore on a cloudy day to think about the nebulous feeling of wilderness and its future. "Capital W" wilderness is a useful land management tool, but wilderness as a feeling is different for everybody.Photo by Janet Rosen (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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Other

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2024/09/17

Not everything fits into neat little boxes. Sometimes you have to check "other."What are other perspectives on wilderness?We visit the country's first tribal wilderness in the Mission Mountains of Montana to hear how it's managed by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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31:18

Primitive, Unconfined Recreation

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2024/09/10

Do you have all your gear to head into nature? What about your smartphone?Technology helps people access wilderness, but it can also get in the way.We're hitting the Pacific Crest Trail with hikers and a Search and Rescue team who have mixed feelings about technology in wilderness, and we meet a recreator who wouldn't be able to be here without it.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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28:45

Solitude

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2024/09/03

Do you have a permit?We're going to a popular trail in Colorado's Maroon Bells to talk about the slippery feeling of solitude and what to do about more people on the trail.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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28:38

Natural

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2024/08/27

We're tired from hiking and taking a break at an art museum to ponder how nature got framed.We're exploring how artists like Ansel Adams and thinkers like John Muir shaped Americans' ideas of what "authentic nature" should look like and who belongs in it."Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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28:47

Undeveloped

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2024/08/20

What do you mean by "undeveloped" — weren't there people living here?We're wading through rivers in the nation's first wilderness in New Mexico's Gila National Forest to learn how the idea of capital "W" Wilderness came to be.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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Untrammeled

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2024/08/13

Untrammeled. No, that's not a typo. We don't mean untrampled.Wilderness areas are supposed to remain free from human intervention unless absolutely necessary. But in a world where every part of the planet is affected by climate change, how do we decide when to intervene? We're heading off-trail in Sequoia National Park with land managers and environmentalists who are at odds.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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Introducing How Wild

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2024/08/01

Put on your hiking shoes. Pack some water and snacks. We're heading out on trails around the West to explore the meaning of wilderness and how it's changing.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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