If you were paying close attention to FE6.2, you may have caught a mention of the very first Clam Garden wall built in the modern era, by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. In this conversation with Joseph Williams, Shellfish Community Liaison for Swinomish, we get into the details of how they made it happen.
[CONVERSATION] Tal Engel // Integrative Forest Rehabilitation
In the Autumn of 2024, Adam visted Tal Engel of Wolftree Integrative Forest Rehabilitation, and took a tour of the woodlands which serve as a living laboratory for Tal's experiments in ecosystem revitalization and forest fire fuel management.
If you take care of any forested spaces, we're sure you'll be inspired by some of Tal's techniques.
[FIELD NOTES] Quadra Hill Forest Restoration
Adam and Mendel play "guess that sound" with recordings from the ongoing forest restoration project on Quadra Hill, Galiano Island.
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Adam Davis on Mitigation Banking
In this Q+A follow-up to FE5.6, we're digging even deeper into the practice of Mitigation Banking, where ecosystem restoration (and nature itself) may be a profitable investment at scale.
While that episode was effectively a monologue for storytelling and stylistic reasons, this conversation gets into the weeds of offsetting, how credits are assessed and monitored, land trusts and permanent stewardship easements, intersections with real estate and Indigenous land back, permitting and project impacts, and Adam Davis's philosophy vis-à-vis capitalism.
Michael Lun on Peacock Jumping Spiders
In FE5.1 & 5.2 we got to know jumping spiders primarily through a single genus: Habronattus, the paradise jumping spiders. In this bonus conversation with photographer Michael Lun, we discuss the only genus of jumping spiders that can claim to be even more bedazzling: Maratus, the peacock jumping spiders.
[FIELD NOTES] Yanbaru Forest
Okinawa, 2019: Producer Simone Miller and Dr. Nick Friedman set off into the Yanbaru Forest to visit one of the OIST Ryukyu Soundscapes Project field sites, for FE2.5 - The Nature of Sound.
Despite being briefly blocked by several unscheduled wildlife road crossings, they reach the field recorder and witness the procession of insect and bird calls from day into dusk.
Dan Pierce on Industrial Forestry and Floods
We’re speaking with documentarian Dan Pierce, director of Heartwood: an ongoing series of short films exploring the ecological, social, and economic impacts of industrial logging