The Campfire's Edge

Captain Nate Stansberry has decades of experience guiding flyfishing clients on the Pacific Northwest Coast and the Great Lakes. He caught the bug for offshore fishing off Long Island, home of the legendary Frank Mundus. In this episode, we talk to Capt Nate about his relationship with the sea, and why he thinks she is sentient and plans to kill him.

In this episode, Sarah and Matt discuss their history with bears and past hunts, and go through the transactional relationship Sarah developed with the first bear she had killed, and the promise we kept to bring him home a bear-wife. Warning: There is swearing in this episode because Matt is scared of bears.

Welcome to The Campfire's Edge, a podcast about the people who live closest to the more-than-human (hunters, foragers, anglers, hikers and birders) and their encounters with the paranormal. Your hosts, Matt Stansberry and Sarah Rose, are passionate conservationists, hunters and parents living in the Piedmont of North Carolina., Matt is an author and Sarah is a wildlife artist. In this first episode the hosts articulate the topics that drive this podcast: What does a person who is viscerally connected to a landscape experience in a paranormal event? Can looking at different peoples' experiences comparatively tell us anything about how the world works? And how can outdoors people process these encounters and bring some value back to their communities and landscapes?

You can find links to some of the books we reference here.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/312960.The_Ecology_of_Freedom

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221824.Defending_the_Earth