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The Wild Chris Morgan takes listeners around the world to Italy, Germany and his own backyard of the Pacific Northwest to explore the beauty and wonder of the outdoors and its inhabitants. From beavers to wolves to grizzly bears we experience up close the resilient power of nature and our relationship with it.
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Chris Morgan takes listeners around the world to Italy, Germany and his own backyard of the Pacific Northwest to explore the beauty and wonder of the outdoors and its inhabitants. From beavers to wolves to grizzly bears we experience up close the resilient power of nature and our relationship with it.

Most Recent Episodes

Eavesdropping on orcas: love, grief, and family

The orca story is one of human misunderstanding and generational trauma. But it's also a story of celebration, family, and a sense of place. Exploring their chatty underwater world might just help us understand how they are communicating... and what they are trying to say.

Season 5 Trailer

Season 5 kicks off with new episodes on March 14th

A short check-in from Chris

The new season kicks off in March

The fiery spell of Desolation

Jim Henterly spent more than 70 days alone at the Desolation Peak Fire Lookout station last summer. He was there to keep an eye out for smoke plumes but also so much more.

Make it like it was: Clean, cold and flowing Gold Creek of Snoqualmie Pass

We can't reset the clock on all the changes we've made to our natural ecosystems, but when we can, life is ready to thrive again.

Make it like it was: Clean, cold and flowing Gold Creek of Snoqualmie Pass

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Etuaptmumk: Two Eyed Seeing

There's a way to understand nature through both the perspectives of indigenous knowledge and western science alongside each other. It's a concept known as "two eyed seeing".

Coral reefs: a biological symphony being silenced

A common misunderstanding about the sea is that it is silent down there, a quiet world beneath the waves, but it actually couldn't be further from the truth. The coral reef is the noisiest ecosystem in the sea.

Hard Knocks: Lessons from the woodpecker

Woodpeckers will peck at a tree up to 12,000 times a day and just one woodpecker peck produces about 15 times the force needed to give a human a concussion. So, how do woodpeckers bang their heads so much, and so hard and not come away with brain damage?

Nuclear sea otters: A wildlife refugee story

Fifty years later, we checked in on a rescue mission to save sea otters from nuclear annihilation and recolonize them along the west coast of North America.

Happy 46th Birthday! An Earth Day message from Chris

An Earth Day message from Chris

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