Nature writer and podcaster Matt Stansberry tells us about the challenges of conservation and management—and the supernatural goings-on that come with it.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: The Squonk, illustrated by Coert Du Bois and William T. Cox [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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A. R. Ammons
The Snow Poems
Rudolfo Anaya
Bless Me, Ultima
Ted Andrews
Animal-Speak: Understanding Animal Messengers, Totems, and Signs
Aristotle
John Baglow
Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self
Frank Black
"Los Angeles"
James Cameron
True Lies
Mike Clelland
The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee
Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dan Flores
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Dan Flores
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
Nell Greenfieldboyce
Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Václav Havel
Tom Hennen
Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems
Hub City Writers Project
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
John Lane
Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems
Dave Lucas
Weather
Hugh MacDiarmid
James Merrill
The Changing Light at Sandover
Alice Oswald / Paul Keegan
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology
Rachel Pollack
Tom Putnam
The Dark Divide
Robert Michael Pyle
Rider Waite Smith Tarot
Mary Ruefle
Madness, Rack, and Honey
Trevor Shikaze / WAWI
Terrible, Glorious, & Useful
Matt Stansberry
"Rootless: Byrology as a Cure for Loneliness in the Landscape"
Matt Stansberry
Rustbelt Arcana: Tarot and Natural History in the Exurban Wilds
Matt Stansberry / Sarah Rose
The Campfire's Edge
Matt Stansberry / David Wilson
Rust Belt Arcana Tarot Deck
Gavin Van Horn
Paula Whyman
Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop
Virginia Woolf
William Butler Yeats
A Vision
