wildlife conservation

We welcome back Jeremy Hurst, the Game Management Section Head for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Also joining us is Annie Stupik from DEC’s Wildlife Diversity Section. Ray Graf hosts.

Conservationist and adventurer Peter Fong led an expedition down Mongolia’s Selenge River, described in his book “Rowing to Baikal.” “To me the river is like a god, a god that I can be in conversation with. I feel like it’s alive. I don’t always understand it, but I don’t understand god either.” A conversation at the Explorers Club.

We welcome back Jeremy Hurst and Angelena Ross of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Ray Graf hosts.

For more than two decades, award-winning science and nature writer David Quammen has traveled to Earth’s most far-flung and fragile destinations, sending back field notes from places caught in the tension between humans and the wild. "The Heartbeat of the Wild" features 20 of those assignments: elegantly written narratives, originally published in National Geographic magazine and updated for today, telling colorful and impassioned stories from some of the planet’s wildest locales.

We expect to see bears in the woods, but now the bears are showing up in the suburbs and the cities. for more on why the number of encounters with bears…