In this episode we interview Haw River Assembly Executive Director Emily Sutton about our wild and damaged river, in a discussion that spans environmental strategy, river-personhood, and our worries for the future. HRA is lobbying NC’s Environmental Management Commission. The group that is responsible for setting state pollution regulations is taking public comment on their…

In the 1960s, deer-hunter, CPA exam grad, and my future dad Paul Stansberry witnessed a figure flying on a floating platform in near Akron, Ohio. What might have been taken for a secret military test flight quickly shifted to something otherworldly as the platform the humanoid shaped being was standing on accelerated so quickly, to…

Episode art by Sarah C. Rose, black bear paw, pen, colored pencil and gouache on paper. Western North Carolina opened a new chapter this year: the first regulated black bear hunts in some of the steepest, coldest, and most tangled country in the state. Sarah and Matt both drew tags for this historic hunt. In…

[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 an outdoor journalist, conservation advocate,…

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 life-ways for all but…