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…

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 person could walk, smelled it…

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 stag icon sparks a conversation…

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…