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Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson

Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson

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 A podcast about the people shaping the future of the American West—its land, communities, and culture. • Hosted by conservationist Ed Roberson, Mountain & Prairie features in-depth conversations with leaders, innovators, and changemakers—conservationists tackling environmental challenges, authors and historians preserving the West's stories, artists capturing the region's spirit, entrepreneurs building place-based businesses, outdoor athletes pushing human limits, and more. Through engaging, down-to-earth discussions, Ed explores their journeys, hard-earned wisdom, and lessons learned. • Each episode offers inspiration and insight—whether a story of resilience, a fresh take on conservation, or practical lessons in leadership, creativity, and problem-solving. It's a space for meaningful conversations about the land, the people, and the ideas shaping the modern West.Mountain & Prairie Media 旅行記・解説 社会科学
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  • Mike Schaedel - Restoring Balance to Fire-Adapted Landscapes

    Mike Schaedel - Restoring Balance to Fire-Adapted Landscapes
    2025/11/28
    Mike Schaedel is the Western Montana Forest Restoration Director for The Nature Conservancy, where he leads some of the most ambitious and collaborative forest restoration work happening anywhere in the West. Based in Missoula, Mike works at the intersection of science, community partnerships, and land stewardship—helping restore fire-adapted forests, reduce wildfire risk, and improve the health and resilience of landscapes across the region. Mike's career path is super interesting and anything but traditional. He grew up in Portland, fell in love with the mountains through rock climbing, and eventually landed in Missoula, where the combination of wild landscapes and a rich literary community drew him in. After earning an undergraduate degree in creative writing, he found his way into forestry and fire ecology through conservation corps work, hands-on restoration experience, and a graduate program focused on forest dynamics and fire. In this conversation, Mike offers a clear overview of how Western Montana's forests came to look the way they do today—shaped by millennia of tribal burning, transformed by railroad-era land grants and industrial logging, and altered further by a century of fire suppression. He explains why effective restoration now depends on combining mechanical thinning with prescribed fire and on working across ownership boundaries with partners ranging from local communities to tribes and federal agencies. We also discuss some of the innovative collaborative efforts underway in the region, as well as a memorable story of a prescribed burn that came together through quick problem-solving and deep trust. This is a rich, informative, and hopeful conversation about what it takes to restore forests at scale—and why the future of these landscapes depends on both ecological understanding and strong community partnerships. Enjoy! --- Michael Schaedel, Western Montana Forest Restoration DirectorReserved Treaty Rights Lands Program: The Power of PartnershipComplete episode notes and links: https://mountainandprairie.com/mike-schaedel --- This episode is brought to you in partnership with the Colorado chapter of The Nature Conservancy and TNC chapters throughout the Western United States. Guided by science and grounded by decades of collaborative partnerships, The Nature Conservancy has a long-standing legacy of achieving lasting results to create a world where nature and people thrive. During the last week of every month throughout 2025, Mountain & Prairie will be delving into conversations with a wide range of The Nature Conservancy's leaders, partners, collaborators, and stakeholders, highlighting the myriad of conservation challenges, opportunities, and solutions here in the American West and beyond. To learn more about The Nature Conservancy's impactful work in the West and around the world, visit www.nature.org --- TOPICS DISCUSSED: 3:02 – Intro, Mike's love for Missoula6:04 – Getting a creative writing degree8:21 – And fighting back into forestry12:26 – Early writing influences13:39 – Switching sides of the brain15:32 – First job out of grad school20:08 – And that work now23:38 – Checkerboard landownership33:04 – Conservation accomplishment34:56 – Fitting in forest health39:33 – Fire scars45:52 – The Big Burn52:59 – Fire playing a beneficial role58:51 – And the role mill workers play1:02:03 – Projects down the pipeline1:12:00 – Book recs1:13:49 – Parting words --- ABOUT MOUNTAIN & PRAIRIE: Mountain & Prairie - All EpisodesMountain & Prairie ShopMountain & Prairie on InstagramUpcoming EventsAbout Ed RobersonSupport Mountain & Prairie Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts
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    1 時間 22 分
  • SHED SESH: September & October 2025 Book Recommendations

    SHED SESH: September & October 2025 Book Recommendations
    2025/11/18

    This month marks ten full years of my bimonthly book-recommendations project—a decade of weird little paragraphs about the books that grab my scattered attention. Whether you've been here since the beginning or signed up five minutes ago, thank you. I'm still baffled anyone reads these things, but I'm grateful all the same.

    To mark the occasion, I recorded a late-night solo episode from The Shed, diving deeper into each of my September & October picks: why I chose them, what stayed with me, and the sometimes-unexpected lessons I gleaned from each of them. Or you could just describe it as a guy sitting in his garden shed talking to himself. Your choice.

    You can read all of the recommendations here, or, if you're clamoring to receive more emails, you can sign up for the list here.

    Thanks for listening, thanks for reading, and here's to 10 more great years of great books.

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    • September & October 2025 Book Recommendations
    • Ed's Bimonthly Book Recommendations
    • Sign up for the list

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    BOOKS DISCUSSED:

    • 00:00 — Intro + 10 years of book-rec emails
    • 05:45 — Burn by Peter Heller
    • 11:00 — Jaber Crow by Wendell Berry (related rec)
    • 11:45 — The Way Out by Devon O'Neil
    • 17:10 — Simple Fly Fishing by Yvon Chouinard
    • 21:50 — Pheasant Tail Simplicity by Yvon Chouinard
    • 25:40 — Little Woodchucks by Nick Offerman
    • 29:20 — Dirtbag Billionaire by David Gelles
    • 35:00 — Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (related rec)
    • 35:55 — Apple in China by Patrick McGee
    • 40:45 — When McKinsey Comes to Town (related rec)
    • 42:10 — The Devil's Hand by Jack Carr
    • 46:15 — Closing thoughts

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

    Devon O'Neil — On Nature's Power and the Price of Adventure
    2025/11/11

    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" is one of the best pieces of outdoor nonfiction I've read in years. The book tells the harrowing true story of a backcountry ski trip near Leadville, Colorado, that turned tragic—and the years-long process of understanding what really happened, and how a mountain town wrestled with loss, resilience, and the complicated relationship we all have with risk and wild places. It's gripping, deeply reported, and beautifully written—equal parts survival epic, community portrait, and meditation on how we find meaning in the aftermath of tragedy.

    Devon has spent more than two decades as a writer and reporter based in Summit County, Colorado, covering everything from adventure sports and avalanches to the cultural and emotional undercurrents of life in mountain towns. Before turning his attention to this book project, he worked in newspapers, wrote for Outside, Men's Journal, and ESPN.com, and somehow managed to balance all of that with being a hardcore athlete and a dedicated dad and husband. He's one of those rare writers whose empathy and endurance match the people that he writes about.

    In this conversation, Devon and I dig into the story behind "The Way Out"—how he first heard about the tragedy, earned the trust of a close-knit community, and spent years piecing together a complete and compassionate account. We talk about the ethical tightrope of telling other people's hardest stories, how his own brushes with danger shaped his perspective on risk, and what this project taught him about the fine line between adventure and recklessness. We also get into his childhood growing up on a sailboat in the Virgin Islands, his evolution as a journalist and athlete, and the hard-earned wisdom that comes from spending a lifetime chasing stories in the mountains.

    "The Way Out" is available now wherever you get your books, so follow the links in the episode notes to grab your copy. Big thanks to Devon for the chat, and thank you for listening. Enjoy!

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    • Devon O'Neil
    • "The Way Out" by Devon O'Neil

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    TOPICS DISCUSSED:

    • 2:23 – Intro and finding The Way Out story
    • 6:59 – Making people comfortable
    • 11:10 – The story in Devon's words
    • 16:29 – Mountain town people
    • 20:48 – Lifestyle overlaps
    • 24:20 – Devon's own accidents
    • 30:10 – It's all great until someone gets hurt
    • 33:03 – The bonds of risk
    • 35:18 – Adjustments
    • 39:22 – Growing up on islands
    • 43:43 – How Devon got to Colorado
    • 47:34 – Pros and cons of different types of writing
    • 51:22 – Book writing advice
    • 55:42 – Not just about getting it right
    • 1:00:09 – Book and writer recs

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    ABOUT MOUNTAIN & PRAIRIE:

    • Mountain & Prairie - All Episodes
    • Mountain & Prairie Shop
    • Mountain & Prairie on Instagram
    • Upcoming Events
    • About Ed Roberson
    • Support Mountain & Prairie
    • Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts
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    1 時間 5 分
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