Podcast Episodes

Stella Maria Baer – Moons, Horses, and New Mexico Light

Stella Maria Baer is a Santa Fe–based painter whose work is deeply rooted in land, light, and place. Known for her luminous depictions of moons, dese…

6 hours ago

A Joint Episode with The River Radius, featuring Sam Carter

Today's conversation is a joint episode between Mountain & Prairie and The River Radius podcast. I'm joined by Sam Carter, the creator and host of Th…

1 week, 6 days ago

Kelsey Morris Returns – Going All In on Art

My guest today is Kelsey Morris, and this is her second time on the podcast—which feels long-overdue, because a lot has happened since we last talked…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Jason Gardner Returns – Fire, Leadership, and What Really Matters

Jason Gardner is a retired Navy SEAL who now works as a top-level leadership instructor with Echelon Front. Over his thirty-year career in the SEAL t…

1 month ago

Todd Ulizio – Farming, Attention, and a Life Well Rooted

Todd Ulizio is the co-owner of Two Bear Farm, an organic vegetable farm in Whitefish, Montana, that's quietly become a cornerstone of the Flathead Va…

1 month, 1 week ago

Sammy Matsaw Jr. – Salmon, Sovereignty, and the Long Work of Healing

Sammy Matsaw Jr. is the Director of the Columbia Basin Program at The Nature Conservancy, where he works at the intersection of salmon recovery, trib…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ed's Appearance on "My Favorite Things"

Today's episode is a bit of a departure from the usual format.

I'm re-sharing a recent conversation I had on my friend Brendan Leonard's new podcast,…

2 months, 1 week ago

Mike Schaedel - Restoring Balance to Fire-Adapted Landscapes

Mike Schaedel is the Western Montana Forest Restoration Director for The Nature Conservancy, where he leads some of the most ambitious and collaborat…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

SHED SESH: September & October 2025 Book Recommendations

This month marks ten full years of my bimonthly book-recommendations project—a decade of weird little paragraphs about the books that grab my scatter…

3 months ago

Devon O'Neil — On Nature's Power and the Price of Adventure

Devon O'Neil is a journalist, author, and longtime friend of mine whose new book "The Way Out: A True Story of Survival in the Heart of the Rockies" …

3 months, 1 week ago