The Wild
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“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” — John Muir, 1901
The Wild explores how nature survives and thrives alongside (and often despite) humans. Taking listeners across the Pacific Northwest and around the world, host Chris Morgan explores wildlife and the complex web of ecosystems they inhabit. He also tells the stories of people working in and protecting the wild around us.
The Wild is produced by Matt Martin and edited by Jim Gates.
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Episodes
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Where the spirit bears roam
Ian McAllister and his father arrived late to the logging protest at Clayoquat Sound, British Columbia. It was the late 1980s; McAllister was in his teens. When they showed up, they found that most of the activists had been taken to jail in Vancouver.
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The hunt to find just one square inch of silence
Chris Morgan goes deep into the Olympic National Forest to find the most elusive creature imaginable: silence.
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A harsh life among ‘super over-caffeinated' penguins
Chris Morgan interviews two filmmakers that got up close and personal with Antarctica penguins.
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Bombs, guns and sea lions on the Columbia River
Chris Morgan takes listeners along a complicated journey up the Columbia River, trying to piece together the interplay between people, sea lions, orcas and salmon.
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The ‘ghost bears’ of Washington state
Chris Morgan explores the ideas and controversies behind reintroducing grizzly bears to the North Cascades.
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Chris Morgan sees a forest therapist
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about this magazine article I picked up in a doctor’s office called “Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning.”
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These Italian bears survived gladiators and Mussolini
Just two hours from Rome is one of the richest ecosystems in Europe, a little island of mountains that to this day is home to wolves, wild boar and bears.
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Let the bear make the first move, and other tips to stay safe in the wild
I’m not someone who looks for trouble, but on my travels I’ve been peed on by orangutans, charged by grizzly bears, treed by moose, bitten by squirrels, stalked by polar bears, followed by wolves, chased by wild boar, and even had my finger sliced open by a leaf-cutter ant once.
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Living in a freezing hole, watching for tigers that may never come
Host Chris Morgan travels to Russia to meet the man who captured on film the Siberian tigers that are nearly invisible.
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Leave it to beavers, seriously
Host Chris Morgan hangs out in Seattle's backyard with some very eager beavers.
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Return of ze big bad wolf
Chris Morgan tracks wolves in Germany.
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The first time I caught a grizzly bear
Weeks of tedium interspersed with moments of absolute terror.