Last winter Emma Hayward reached out to ask Gale, "What does wilderness mean to you?"

Emma was working on her senior thesis project. As an environmental science major with a love for the ocean, she wanted to dig into not only the "what" of wilderness, but the "where."

This episode is a piece of Emma's thesis project. It's her personal exploration to find out why wilderness is so important to us and how we make the distinction between wild and not-wild. It includes Emma's findings through survey results, research, and conversations with Dr. Nita Tallent (Cape Cod National Seashore), Dr. Craig Marin (assistant professor of SEA Semester), Rachael Miller (founder of Rozalia Project), and our own Gale Straub.

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Music is by Kai Engel and Kevin Macleod.