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The Wild Line: Wildfire, Broken Promises and Reconciliation Jun 20, 2025

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This week on The Wild Line, we’re tracking three major stories shaping the future of public lands and the communities that depend on them, including a new executive order aimed at “commonsense” wildfire prevention and response.

Learn more and find the links and resources from today's episode at our website, thewildidea.com.

Tracy Stone-Manning: Promises Worth Defending Jun 17, 2025

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Tracy Stone-Manning has spent her career at the heart of public lands policy—from field offices and statehouses to the director’s chair at the Bureau of Land Management. Now, as president of The Wilderness Society, she’s carrying that fight forward with a deep belief in collaboration, connection, and the promise our public lands represent.

In this episode, she joins Bill and Anders for a wide-ranging conversation about what’s really happening inside our land management agencies, what the public lands rule was meant to protect, and why the stakes feel higher than ever.

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The Wild Line: Senate Draft Targets Millions of Acres, DOJ Clears Monument Rollbacks Jun 13, 2025

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This week on The Wild Line, we dive into the latest updates from the Department of Justice, look at Senate drafts impacting public lands and forests, and talk about youth efforts on behalf of Bigfoot, as well as a handful of other important topics. It's been a big week for wilderness spaces—here's what you may have missed.

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Randy Newberg: The Host of Fresh Tracks Offers Fresh Ideas on Advocacy and Access Jun 10, 2025

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Randy Newberg is one of the most trusted and strategic voices in the sportsman conservation world, and he’s got stories to prove it. In this episode, Randy joins Bill and Anders for a wide-ranging, funny, and deeply personal conversation that moves from his childhood hunting on public lands in northern Minnesota to testifying before Congress and building a media platform to fight for the places that fed and shaped him.

Learn more about Randy and find links to the resources mentioned today at our website, thewildidea.com.

The Wild Line: Lee and Daines talk land sales, Interior guts Science and opens Alaska to drilling Jun 06, 2025

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This week on The Wild Line, Senators Lee and Daines revive dangerous land sell-off efforts, the DOI axes key science protections, and Alaska faces a new wave of oil and gas drilling, because apparently, recess doesn’t mean rest for public lands.

Learn more and find the links and resources from today's episode at our website, thewildidea.com.

Andis Arietta: The Uncertainty Inherent in Wilderness Jun 03, 2025

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What do frozen frogs, machine learning, roadkill, and wilderness ethics have in common? According to evolutionary ecologist Dr. Andis Arietta…everything.

In this wide-ranging and mind-expanding conversation, Andis joins us to explore the deep connections between ecology, evolution, climate change, and how (and whether) we manage wild places.

Find the links and resources mentioned in today's conversation and learn more about Andis by visiting our website, thewildidea.com

The Wild Line: SCOTUS approves mine on sacred ground; Burgum rewrites history May 30, 2025

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This week on The Wild Line, despite Congress being on recess, the hits keep coming for public lands, tribal sovereignty, and environmental protections.

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Jon Jarvis: Are Our National Parks Being Set Up To Fail? May 29, 2025

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In this bonus episode of The Wild Idea, we sit down with Jon Jarvis, the 18th Director of the National Park Service, for a wide-ranging and urgent conversation about the future of America’s public lands. Drawing on his 40-year career in the Park Service—from backcountry Alaska to the corridors of D.C.—Jarvis offers a sobering look at current threats, including budget slashing, forced retirements, and what he calls a calculated push to privatize the parks.

Learn more and find the links and resources mentioned in this episode at our website, thewildidea.com.

Ingrid Lyons: Save the Boundary Waters, Join the National Wilderness Coalition May 27, 2025

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What does it take to protect one of the most visited, and most threatened, wilderness areas in America? Executive Director of Save the Boundary Waters, Ingrid Lyons, joins us to talk about the fight to defend Minnesota’s beloved Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from dangerous copper mining proposals and the broader movement to reinvigorate wilderness advocacy nationwide.

Learn more about the topics discussed in today's episode and connect with Ingrid on our website, thewildidea.com

The Wild Line: Burgum Defends Park Closures, Public Lands Survive Reconciliation (for now) May 23, 2025

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This week on The Wild Line, Anders and Bill break down a big development in the ongoing budget reconciliation battle, and what it means for public lands. We dive into the House Reconciliation Bill, the Trump administration’s $5 billion cut to the Department of the Interior’s budget, and more.

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