[Episode Art by Sarah Rose] In this episode, Sarah and I sit down with Hal Herring, host of the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Cast and Blast, for a wide-ranging conversation about hunting, conservation, and what it really means to be in relationship with land. Hal brings decades of experience as…

Episode Art: Mule Deer, Pen & Ink by Sarah Rose. Magical practices – communicating and negotiating with the more-than-human to bring our desire into the world, through ritual, petitioning or augury – is the foundation of human thought and spirituality. Hunting practices shaped our species and was the basis of…

Our friend Jeremy tells the story he kept quiet for years: a close, unnerving encounter deep in Ohio’s Tar Hollow State Forest that changed the way he moves through the woods. In 2010, bowhunting miles from the road, he watched something come straight through a six-foot wall of greenbrier no…

Episode Art: Whitetail Deer 2025, North Carolina – Ink on Paper by Sarah C. Rose. Dr. Peggy Smith Eppig (environmental historian, longtime ranger, and Goucher professor) joins us to talk about how stories shape land ethics, from St. Hubert and St. Cuthbert to fieldwork in West Virginia where a small chapel’s…

In this episode we welcome Dan Flores, author of Coyote America and a host of other great books to talk about his recent work, Wild New World, The Epic Story of Animals and People in America. The book won the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and the 2023 National…

In this episode, we talk to Conner Habib, novelist and host of the podcast Against Everyone With Conner Habib. Conner’s debut novel, Hawk Mountain (July, 2022 ), pairs instances of human violence, and animal violence throughout the book, inviting comparison. We talk about that, and also discuss whether the natural…

Episode Art: Turkey 2025, North Carolina – Ink on Paper by Sarah C. Rose. In this episode, Sarah and I give updates on our creative projects, including speaking at the 250th anniversary celebration of naturalist William Bartram, to starting a new Substack journal, and visiting our first paranormal event. We transition…

Episode art by Sarah Rose, mixed media on paper. Dr. Robert Michael Pyle is a naturalist and the author of 28 books, including Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, Wintergreen, Nature Matrix, Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest, the novel Magdalena Mountain, and four collections of poetry. In this episode, we talk…

Episode art by Sarah Rose, indigo milkcap mushroom latest, ink and stained water pooling in the wound of a sweetgum tree root. At the Equinox, the blood root are blooming, big brown bats are chittering in the sky overhead at dusk. Red maples, winged elm and spicebush are blossoming. The…

Raven episode art by Sarah Rose, Ink and Mixed Media Nature writer Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt joins us to talk about bird synchronicities, the communion of saints, and love for Earthsea, etymology and corvid culture. Lyanda is the author of six incredible books, including most recently, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads…