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 Outdoor Book Award for Natural…

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 history emphasis in the book…

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 to a wider conversation about…

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 about The Dark Divide movie,…

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 red shouldered hawks are mating…