Land Ethic

Land Ethic episodes:

• 05.30.2023

  #44 Lakhan Clark

  Lakhan Clark is an outdoorsman and writer from Auckland, New Zealand. He's passionate about connecting to the natural world through the pursuit of wild food in the NZ backcountry. He's committed to helping preserve this human and wildlife connection by...

  
• 05.15.2023

  #43 Robert Kent

  Robert Kent is the Texas State Director for The Trust for Public Land, where he leads a team of colleagues and volunteers working to make the health, climate, equity, and community benefits of parks and nature accessible to all. Born...

  
• 04.25.2023

  #42 Dr. Jason LaBelle

  Dr. Jason LaBelle is a professor of anthropology at Colorado State University. He is the director of a research lab called the Center for Mountain and Plains Archaeology, and serves as the curator of the Archaeological Repository at CSU. He...

  
• 04.11.2023

  #41 Seth Wilson

  Seth Wilson is the Executive Director of the Blackfoot Challenge, a leading collaborative conservation group based in western Montana. As an applied conservation biologist, Seth has worked on resolving issues between people and wildlife in the United States, Canada, and...

  
• 03.21.2023

  #40 Jaden Bales

  Jaden Bales is a sportsman and western hunting tag expert from Wyoming. He’s written for outdoor media websites like Rokslide and Modern Huntsman, and has appeared regularly on podcasts such as Eastman’s Elevated and the Rich Outdoors. When he’s not...

  
• 03.06.2023

  #39 Dr. Mark Elbroch

  Dr. Mark Elbroch is a scientist, tracker, writer, and storyteller. His is the lead scientist for the Puma Program at Panthera, a global nonprofit focused on wild cat conservation. Mark’s research on mountain lions is changing what we thought we...

  
• 12.02.2022

  #38 Steph Williams

  Stephanie Williams (her friends call her Steph) is a mountain guide, field biologist, and co-founder of the Cascades Wolverine Project. She has over a decade of experience in field science, and two decades in the outdoor industry. She first...

  
• 11.18.2022

  #37 Kenyon Fields

  Kenyon Fields is a conservationist and rancher from western Colorado. His background is in conservation biology and landscape scale conservation planning. He worked for many years in Alaska for the U.S. Forest Service and as executive director of Sitka...

  
• 11.03.2022

  #36 Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Helena Norberg-Hodge is a Linguist, author and film maker. She is the founder and director of the international non-profit organization, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convener of World Localization Day. She is the author...

  
• 10.04.2022

  #35 Jeff Laszlo

  Jeff Laszlo is a fourth-generation owner of the Granger Ranches, a 13,000-acre cattle ranch in Montana’s Madison Valley. Over the past 20 years or so, he and a team of public agencies and professionals have been restoring a large wetland...

  
• 09.20.2022

  #34 Hallie Mahowald

  Hallie Mahowald is the programs director for Western Landowners Alliance, a landowner-led group that advances policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species. At WLA, Hallie manages people and strategy to support private stewardship across the...

  
• 08.15.2022

  #33 Travis Custer

  Travis Custer is the executive director of the Montezuma Land Conservancy, a Southwest Colorado land trust established in 1998 in the town of Cortez. They are working to explore unique solutions to conservation through an emphasis on a community-informed process,...

  
• 07.03.2022

  #32 Nelson Mathews

  Nelson Mathews is the Vice President of Western Rivers Conservancy, a group whose slogan is “Sometimes, in order to save a river, you have to buy it.” WRC buys land along the West’s finest rivers and streams to conserve habitat,...

  
• 05.24.2022

  #31 Juan Carlos Bravo

  Juan Carlos Bravo is the Conservation Director of Wildlands Network. Until recently, he led their efforts in Mexico and the borderlands region, where he advocated for improved conservation in the Sky Islands and the northern Sierra Madre Occidental regions, which...

  
• 05.09.2022

  #30 Vanessa Caldarelli

  Vanessa Caldarelli is the president of EcoEra, a conservation group protecting 7,500 acres of rainforest in one of the most biodiverse regions of Costa Rica. Their mission is to protect the rainforest's ecosystems by preventing poaching and deforestation, and to...

  
• 04.18.2022

  #29 Whit Fosburgh

  Whit Fosburgh is the president and CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, an organization dedicated to advancing America’s legacy of conservation, habitat, and access to public lands. Prior to joining TRCP in 2010, Whit spent 15 years at Trout...

  
• 03.28.2022

  #28 Kristy Bly

  Kristy Bly works for World Wildlife Fund's Northern Great Plains Program as their Black-footed Ferret Restoration Manager. She’s involved in conserving and restoring populations and habitat for ferrets, black-tailed prairie dogs and swift foxes across the Great Plains. ...

  
• 03.07.2022

  #27 Jason Lauritsen

  Jason Lauritsen is the Chief Conservation Officer for the Florida Wildlife Corridor, where he and his colleagues are helping to connect, protect and restore essential conservation habitat throughout the state of Florida. We discussed the vision for the Florida...

  
• 02.16.2022

  #26 Gabe Brown

  Gabe Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement, and a proponent of regenerative agriculture. He’s the author of Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture, co-founder of the Soil Health Academy, and co-owner...

  
• 02.01.2022

  #25 Jess Johnson

  Jess Johnson leads Wyoming Wildlife Federation's efforts on behalf of wildlife through policy and local advocacy. She grew up ranching in Montana, Northern California and Wyoming, and has a deep appreciation for wildlife and wild lands. She's a bowhunter, co-founder...

  
• 01.17.2022

  #24 Natalie Dawson

  Natalie Dawson is the executive director of Audubon Alaska, a conservation organization dedicated to protecting habitat for Alaska’s birds and wildlife. Before joining Audubon in 2019, Natalie was the director of the Wilderness Institute and a professor of Wilderness Studies...

  
• 01.03.2022

  #23 Kristine Tompkins

  Kristine Tompkins is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, and former CEO of Patagonia Clothing Company. For nearly thirty years, she has committed her life to protecting and restoring Chile and Argentina’s wild beauty and biodiversity by creating national...

  
• 12.13.2021

  #22 Kurt Holtzen

  Kurt Holtzen is a senior field advisor for the Wood River Wolf Project, based in central Idaho. He has 20 years of agriculture experience and a decade of experience observing and tracking wolves in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. He performs...

  
• 11.29.2021

  #21 Matt Brown

  Matt Brown is the Managing Director of Global Conservation at The Nature Conservancy, and oversees their conservation initiatives in 59 countries across the globe. Prior to his current position, Matt worked with TNC Africa for 14 years. He is a...

  
• 11.12.2021

  #20 Preston McKelvey

  Preston McKelvey is a co-owner of Wild Willow Outfitters, a hunting and fishing guide service offering excursions in the Roaring Fork Valley and throughout Western Colorado. This conversation was recorded following an early morning duck hunt with Preston and his...

  
• 10.27.2021

  #19 Nephi Craig

  Chef Nephi Craig is a White Mountain Apache who is interested in the development and preservation of Native American foodways. He is the founder of the Native American Culinary Association, and was featured in a recent documentary called Gather, which...

  
• 10.05.2021

  #18 Will Harris

  Will Harris is the owner of White Oak Pastures, a nearly 5,000 acre farm in southern Georgia that raises 10 species of livestock and produces organic vegetables and honey. He is a fourth-generation cattleman, who tends the same land that...

  
• 09.13.2021

  #17 Danny Christensen

  Danny Christensen is a Danish photographer and director based in Northern Italy. While working and living in New York City, he began a project called Urban Huntsman as an excuse to get out of the city and explore while also...

  
• 08.30.2021

  #16 Brian Yablonski

  Brian Yablonski is the CEO of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) based in Bozeman, Montana. PERC is a 40 year old research institute dedicated to free market environmentalism, and they are actively exploring ways that voluntary trade can...

  
• 08.16.2021

  #15 Tara Chapman

  Tara Chapman is a beekeeper and beekeeping consultant from central Texas. After 10 years working in the Middle East for the C.I.A and other U.S. counter intelligence agencies, she left her day job to create Two Hives Honey near Austin,...

  
• 08.02.2021

  #14 Dan Flores

  Dan Flores is a writer and historian who specializes in cultural and environmental history of the American West. He has written ten books, most recently Coyote America and American Serengeti, both of which we discuss in this episode. His essays...

  
• 07.19.2021

  #13 Tyler Sharp

  Tyler Sharp is the CEO and Editor in Chief for Modern Huntsman, a print publication and lifestyle brand based in Livingston, Montana. His career as a photographer, writer, director and creative consultant for hunting and outdoor brands led to this...

  
• 06.21.2021

  #12 Pam Houston

  Pam Houston is a Western author of short stories, novels, and essays. She teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is a Professor of English at UC Davis, and is a co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit...

  
• 06.07.2021

  #11 J. Drew Lanham

  Dr. J. Drew Lanham is an author, ornithologist, and professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson University. His research focuses on songbird ecology, as well as the African-American role in natural-resources conservation. He is active on a number of conservation boards...

  
• 05.24.2021

  #10 Alison Fox

  Alison Fox is the CEO of American Prairie Reserve, a nonprofit working to create the largest nature reserve in the contiguous United States. With an ultimate goal of 3.5 million acres, it would be similar in size to the Serengeti....

  
• 05.17.2021

  #9 Connor Coleman

  Connor Coleman is a land management consultant based in the Roaring Fork Valley near Carbondale, CO. His interdisciplinary experiences in wildland firefighting, environmental management, forestry, ranching, and conservation have all shaped his career into what it is today. During the...

  
• 05.10.2021

  #8 Shane Hardy

  Shane Hardy is the ecology director at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. He grew up in the Hudson River town of Nyack, NY, and has worked on farms in New York’s Finger Lakes region, Orange County and Rockland...

  
• 04.28.2021

  #7 Taylor Collins

  Taylor Collins owns ROAM Ranch in Fredericksburg, TX, with his wife Katie Forrest. After selling their company, Epic Provisions, to General Mills in 2016, Taylor and Katie purchased 900 acres of degraded agricultural land in the Texas hill country with...

  
• 04.22.2021

  #6 Dr. Mark “Merriwether” Vorderbruggen

  Mark “Merriwether” Vorderbruggen, Ph.D. is a leading authority on edible and medicinal plants in Texas. He grew up in the wilds of Minnesota, where his parents and grandparents utilized the wild foods and medicinal plants found in local woods, fields,...

  
• 04.19.2021

  #5 Josh Crumpton

  Josh Crumpton is the owner and operator of Spoke Hollow Outfitters, and the primary steward of Spoke Hollow Ranch. He is also the host of the Sporting Diversity Podcast, which focuses on inclusivity in the outdoors. I recently had the...

  
• 04.12.2021

  #4 Ruben Cantu

  Ruben Cantu is a Certified Wildlife Biologist & Certified Professional in Rangeland Management. He spent 27 years with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department as a Wildlife Biologist. Now "retired," he began teaching at Angelo State University, created Habitat Advantage,...

  
• 04.05.2021

  #3 Chris Wood

  Chris Wood is the President and CEO of Trout Unlimited. Before joining TU in September 2001, Chris served as the senior policy and communications advisor to the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service where he helped protect 58 million acres...

  
• 03.29.2021

  #2 Daron Joffe

  Daron "Farmer D" Joffe is the founder of Famer D organics and Farmer D Consulting, where he designs and builds biodynamic farms and gardens all over North America. His book encourages readers to connect more fully with their food through...

  
• 03.18.2021

  #1 Duke Phillips III

  In the inaugural episode of Land Ethic, I spoke with Duke Phillips III, CEO and founder of Ranchlands. Duke and his family manage over 300,000 acres of land across Colorado, Texas, Wyoming, and New Mexico. We discussed Duke's background, his...