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What is wilderness?
From: Possibly
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Last summer, our reporter Charlie Adams spent ten weeks working in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It’s a slice of northwest Montana that’s over one m...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast Episode 96
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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The Paddler Profile Series continues on the podcast with the inspiring story of one incredible human’s walk across the wilderness.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 32:15
WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast Episode 94
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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The Barefoot Paddler returns to the podcast, this time to share stories of walking every portage in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 37:05
WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast Episode 93
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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For many paddlers, the BWCA is the ultimate destination for all trips. For others, its the training ground for trips further north.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 27:08
WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast Episode 89
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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The sights of the Boundary Waters are what many people think of when asked what they appreciate about the canoe-country wilderness.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 30:08
WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast Episode 85
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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For the first time in several years, there will be a park ranger at the Cache Bay Ranger Station in Quetico Provincial Park for the full season in ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 31:17
WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast Episode 77
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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Dispersed camping on Superior National Forest is something the U.S. Forest Service has encouraged as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness cont...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 34:00
WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast Episode 70
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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It's the 'all news episode' of the WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast!

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 38:34
WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast Episode 54
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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The season of giving thanks returns to the Boundary Waters as 2021 begins to wind down.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 33:47
Episode 47: Boys in the BWCA part 2, with the girls
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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A continuation of the story started in episode 46.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 38:59
Episode 46: Part 1 - Adventures of Fathers and Sons
From: WTIP
Series: WTIP Boundary Waters Podcast
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There comes a time when a father decides to take his son into the Boundary Waters for the first time. It could be anyone, really. A mother, aunt, u...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 30:52
Episode 93: Reaching Rob's Roadhouse
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Greg Mills and his best friend Rob adventured together in the Alaska wilderness. Their dream was to run the Iditarod Trail Invitational Trail toget...

  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 38:10
Living Planet 06/12/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Defining wilderness - We’re exploring ideas of wilderness, what rights nature has and how difficult it is to separate p...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WRGY


  • Added: Jun 14, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, explores Judi Bari’s bold activism to save the Redwood Forest in the face of corporate gre...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Leave No Trace / Three Identical Strangers
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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In the film Leave No Trace, a father and his teenage daughter are living in the woods—we see them foraging for food, mending tarps and other equipm...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:12
Holy Rangers
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In the chaos of a dysfunctional government, who will protect the wilderness and public lands, our national parks and monuments, our nature preserve...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 50: Witness
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Gayle Woodsum finally found a safe place in the remote Rocky Mountains. But when an oil rig moved in, she wondered how safe it was after all.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 25:48
  • Purchases: 2
173: Parks and Recreation (R) / Barbecue (R), 5/27/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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For some people, wilderness is the ultimate experience. America’s national parks make that possible. This week, the complicated history and politic...

  • Added: May 28, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Episode 14: It’s All Downwind From Here
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Sophie May grew up in Alaska, spending lots of time outside. But when it came time to explore the wilderness as an adult, she found out she had mor...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 4
Stranded!
From: Robert Prince
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Two stories of being trapped by yourself in the Alaskan wilderness.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Historian Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning nature writer Gary Ferguson talks about and reads from his memoir 'The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness.'

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
A Wilderness Too Tame?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jason Mark
When was the last time you were really in the wilderness? Or, maybe you’re like the millions of Americans who’ve never even been in the wild before...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Trumpeter swans coming back in Minnesota
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
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They’re the heaviest bird in North America and they’re making a Minnesota come-back. In this edition of North Woods Naturalist, Jay Andersen, with ...

Bought by Radio Newark, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 3
Have there really been other Springs like this?
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
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Spring so far this year has been elusive to say the least. Jay Andersen, with WTIP North Shore Community Radio, talks with naturalist Chel Anderson...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:40
  • Purchases: 2