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Welcome to Season 7!

The Wild with Chris Morgan is a celebration of the natural world and the people devoted to wild places and incredible species. This season, host and ecologist Chris Morgan will bring us face to face with some of the most extraordinary creatures finding unique and inspiring ways to adapt and thrive in environments under increasing stress. From America’s biggest cat, the jaguar, trying to navigate the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico to humpback whales coming back to the shores of British Columbia to hummingbirds surviving in the brutal Arizona desert. We’ll explore the species through the elements of land, water, and air to discover the miracles and oddities that make mother nature so endlessly fascinating.

The Wild with Chris Morgan is a production of KUOW and Chris Morgan Wildlife, with support from Wildlife Media. It is produced by Matt Martin and Lucy Soucek. It is edited by Jim Gates. It is hosted, produced and written by Chris Morgan. Fact checking by Apryle Craig. Our theme music is by Michael Parker.

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Episodes

  • caption: Rangerider Daniel Curry rides his horse Griph, along with his three Doberman dogs on Tuesday, October 15, 2019, near Danville.

    The wolf ranger

    I saddle up, take to the hills of eastern Washington state and meet a man who left his city life behind to protect the wolves he loves.

  • caption: Eba getting a close up view of orca in Puget Sound. Orca poop will float for up to 30 minutes. That is how Eba is able to smell it on the surface of the water.

    The power of poop

    I take a look at three ways biologists are using scat to understand and protect wildlife, including poop parties, a dog on a boat, and an international crime fighter.
  • caption: Mike Sheldon, a wildlife technician with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, prepares to use a dart gun to tranquilize Moses, a 6.5 or 7-year-old male cougar, on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, on the Olympic Peninsula.

    So you caught a cougar, now what?

    I visit a prison on the Olympic Peninsula where incarcerated individuals catalog wildlife videos for local biologists.
  • caption: Houndsman Greg Jones, left, and Chris Morgan, host of The Wild, right, hike after an attempted cougar capture mission of Bramble, a 3-year-old female cougar, on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, on the Olympic Peninsula.

    How to catch a cougar

    I meet biologists who can track multiple cougars in the forest, thanks to some special collars, GPS, and the click of a mouse.
  • caption: A performance by Children of the Setting Sun.

    The ancient wild

    The "salmon people" have lived on the Pacific Coast for more than 10,000 years. Through their long history, stories have been their lifeblood.
  • caption: Teton, a 10-week-old Karelian bear dog, waits for his handler, Nils Pederson, at the final "find" during a field-test. The "find" is a taxidermied bear.

    The wildlife super dog

    I meet an adorable puppy that may be the key to saving bears and people.
  • caption: Michael McHenry, right, a fish habitat manager with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe operates an electrofisher as Martin Liermann, a statistician and fish ecologist with the watershed program follows to put the fish into a bucket before measuring and weighing them, on Wednesday, September 4, 2019, along the Brannon side channel on the Elwha River near Port Angeles.

    A river runs through it ... once again

    Almost 30 years after an act of Congress called for the Elwha dams to come down, the ecosystem is recovering. Species are returning and staying.