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Show of hands - who would live here along for 70 days with the job of protecting our wild places?⁠ ⁠ @chrismorganwildlife⁠ takes the punishing hike to put us in this place on our season finale. Find it now at our link in bio or your favorite podcast
⁠For decades, complete and fast fire suppression was the best policy. ⁠ ⁠ But fire lookout Jim Henterly says our past efforts have actually become our future enemy. ⁠ ⁠ "With all that suppression we allowed conditions to arise that were ripe for
"What you did in this brief little moment you got, because it's all just a moment. ⁠ ⁠ "It's a flash in this geologic time we're talking about with glaciers and this valley and all the changes it's seen, we're just a brief glimmer.⁠ ⁠ &quot
One of the reasons fires are burning bigger today is because of the way we used to fight them in the past. This realization has led to a big change in the way we are managing the landscape. ⁠ ⁠ It used to be that all fires on public lands were put ou
That giant, compass-like device in the center of the fire lookout is an Osborne Fire Finder.⁠ ⁠ When Jim Henterly sees smoke, he turns the Osborne and lines up the sights so it points to the location of the fire. He can then get a bearing with the co
The American West is a fire landscape. Since 1983, there’s been an average of 70,000 wildfires every year in the United States. ⁠ ⁠ And the wildfire season is getting longer, with warmer springs and long, dry summers.⁠ ⁠ Things are changing fas
"It was a great way of coming up in life. You know, growing up, mom, on the reservation, we would travel a lot with my dad. ⁠ ⁠ "And when we drove by Celilo Falls, he would tell me stories of what it was like to fish down there on Celilo be
Wherever you are going this weekend, we hope you are going in style! And if you need a story along the way, make sure to catch our latest in your podcast feeds. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠📸: Host @chrismorganwildlife and producer @mattmartin507 getting wet and wild on as
Joe Blodgett learned how to fish from his father. He mastered the technique of dipnetting, the traditional kind of fishing for the Yakama Nation.⁠ ⁠ One such meaningful spot for this was Celilo Falls, on the Columbia River. It's been flooded since a
This creek is slowly coming back to life. In barely a foot of water, the varied species occupy different niches - their tactics for survival. ⁠ ⁠ Each creature is like a missing piece of a puzzle that’s slotting back in. ⁠ ⁠ The caddisflies and
Celilo Falls was a 20-foot falls located on the Columbia River in Oregon. Notice the past tense in that sentence.⁠ ⁠ That's because in 1957 a dam was constructed, causing the river levels to rise and flood the falls. ⁠ ⁠ A meaningful fishing spot for
To rescue the salmon, you have to restore the watershed. And that mission can start in a very unassuming place. ⁠ ⁠ This week we bring you a big story traced back to a trickle of water, flowing to a river, stopped by dam. ⁠ ⁠ Find our latest episode