My Life, Wildlife

My Life, Wildlife

By Kristopher PachecoScienceEducationNatural Sciences
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My Life, Wildlife episodes

  • Kara Hilwig

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pilot/Biologist Kara Hilwig tells us about her time flying for National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska and the great experiences she gets to live through in her day to day job. 

    13 min
  • Amee Howard

    Listen as Deputy Assistant Regional Director for the Office of Subsistence Management, Amee Howard tells us about her family roots and how her journey has lead her across the lower 48, eventually leading back to Alaska. 

    16 min
  • Erika Merced-Teofrio

    Erika Merced-Teofrio tells us about the continuation of her service, from helping provide air and missile defense to our nation's allies to now serving as the Marine Mammals Management, Administrative Assistant for the Alaska Region. 

    14 min
  • Andrea Medeiros

    Andrea Medeiros tells us about her path from cooking professionally on the East Coast to serving as the Alaska Region's Public Affairs Officer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.  

    15 min
  • Andrea Medeiros

    Andrea Medeiros tells us about her path from cooking professionally on the East Coast to serving as the Alaska Region's Public Affairs Officer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.  

    15 min
  • Bob Rebarchik
    From a wilderness ranger to a fire management officer to a refuge manager, Bob Rebarchik reflects on his career journey to the northwestern Alaska refuges he calls home.    
    14 min
  • Karin Bodony
    Listen to ecologist Karin Bodony speak about her love for rural Alaska, glacial sand dunes, yellow-cheeked voles, and sled dogs - and what she has learned from the people and places of Koyukuk, Nowitna, and Innoko National Wildlife Refuges.
    18 min
  • Timothy Lorenzini
    Tim Lorenzini came to Alaska to teach school in Galena. Follow his career to becoming a supervisory Park Ranger at Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge and hear more about his favorite river (the Yukon) and why Tetlin is nicknamed the Land of Great Migrations.
    15 min
  • Benjamin Weitzman

    Listen as Wildlife Biologist Benjamin Weitzman tells us about the journey to his position with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and learn a thing or two about Alaska's smallest marine mammal— the sea otter. 

    16 min
  • Mimi Thomas

    Mimi Thomas grew up along the Yukon River and has spent her career with Fish and Wildlife Service as a park ranger and law enforcement officer at Kenai and Yukon Flats refuges. 

    10 min

About My Life, Wildlife

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My Life, Wildlife is a new podcast where you’ll meet the passionate, talented people who have dedicated their lives to caring for the wildlife and wild places of Alaska.