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NRCS: No, Really we're doing Conservation, Sorta

Do you enjoy being completely confused by meaningless paperwork? Do live for learning new acronyms and initialisms? Do you like free* money from the government? Then boy

New World Screwworm: Get Hominivoraxed, Nerd

Apologies for the long hiatus, life got in everyone's way! In this episode we are joined by wildlife biologist and entomologist Dr. Erika Machtinger to talk about the Ne

BEAVERCAST PART 2: Too Castor, Too Canadensis

Historian and friend of the show Marissa joins us once again to talk beavers! In part two we talk about the history of beavers in North America, covering how and why they

The Great(est) Lakes! With Josh Boerman!

In the episode we are joined by Michigander, theatre director, writer, podcast host and just all-around excellent dude Josh Boerman to talk about the ecology, life, and d

BEAVERCAST

Apologies for the hiatus; John has been slow to edit due to his new son who is not very good at audio editing. We will do our best to keep on some sort of schedule but ep

Boundary Waters - Dadcast Edition

In this episode Calvin and John (and John's son) discuss the recent plan to open up the boundary waters wilderness to mining interests. AJ is taking some time off from po

HOGS

On this belated holiday (hogiday?) episode we have a good friend of the podcast and environmental historian Marissa on to discuss hogs and their various crimes against me

Vector-Borne Diseases in the Napoleonic Era with Michael Skvarla

In this episode we have a guest! A professional knower of facts about bugs! We are joined by Michael Skvarla, one of the co-hosts of Arthro-Pod to learn about vector-born

The "Fix Our Forests" Act

This episode is a little different from our usual ones. We do a "quick" read-through and critique of a pending piece of legislation known as the "Fix Our Forests" act. As

Fire! Lighting and Fighting! Part 3 of 3

In our third part, we talk about the nuts and bolts of how we conduct prescribed fires, and a bit on how we fight wildfires. Apologies for Calvin's audio, he continues t

Fire! Longleaf and Prescribed Fire! Part 2 of 3

In our second part, we get into the specifics of fire ecology as it relates to one of my favorite trees, that's right. It's the tree with an awkward teenager phase, the l

Fire! Fire Ecology! Part 1 of 3

Starting off our three-parter on fire and fire ecology, we talk about how fire and ecology interact to give us the super interesting field of fire ecology, and how plants

Redwoods and why they're super neat!

In this episode we talk about redwoods and why they're a really cool fire-adapted tree that are also extremely vulnerable to climate change. Have a question or a topic y

Argentine Ants with Thomas O'Mahony

On this episode we have a very special guest, podcaster and producer Thomas O'Mahony to talk about an underappreciated global menace. No, it's not Subway, fentanyl, or th

Walter Bitterlich

In the next episode of the "founding fathers of forestry" semi-sorta-series, we talk about the most enthusiastic Nazi forester you've never heard of: Walter Bitterlich. H

Carl Schenck and the rise of American forestry as a profession

In our first episode on the founding fathers of American forestry we cover Carl Schenck. A forgotten German forester who proposed an alternative vision of American forest

Chronic Wasting Disease: Friend or Foe? (It's foe, it's all foe)

In this episode we talk about everyone's favorite cervid prion disease, CWD! We cover what prions and prion diseases are, a bit of the history of CWD, various strategies

The North American Model of Wildlife Management - Part 3 of 3

In our first accidentally-a-series, we explore the North American model of wildlife management: what it is, the history of how it came to be, and how it works (and someti

The North American Model of Wildlife Management - Part 2 of 3

In our first accidentally-a-series, we explore the North American model of wildlife management: what it is, the history of how it came to be, and how it works (and someti

The North American Model of Wildlife Management - Part 1 of 3

In our first accidentally-a-series, we explore the North American model of wildlife management: what it is, the history of how it came to be, and how it works (and someti