The Wild with Chris Morgan
The Wild with Chris Morgan explores how nature survives and thrives alongside (and often despite) humans. Taking listeners across the Pacific Northwest and around the world, host Chris Morgan explores wildlife and the complex web of ecosystems they inhabit. He also tells the stories of people working in and protecting the wild around us.
Follow @thewildpod on Instagram.
Make a donation to support this podcast.
Apply to be a storyteller in our upcoming "Stories from the Wild" events.
Episodes
-
The Wild: The wildlife super dog that can save us from bears
Listen to the latest episode of The Wild with Chris Morgan!
-
The Wild: What trees are saying when we aren't looking
Listen to the latest episode of The Wild with Chris Morgan!
-
The Wild: How would you rate your relationship to nature, animals?
One day, on Kodiak Island in Alaska, Richard Louv was walking down a narrow trail near a cabin where he was staying. “And this is very wild area and per capita bear population is huge compared to humans,” Richard said. “And these are the Alaskan brown bears. This is the biggest of the grizzlies, I believe.”
-
The Wild: A river runs through it ... once again
Listen to the latest episode of The Wild with Chris Morgan
-
Return to Svalbard: Earth's icy food chain is about more than polar bears
It's a beautiful, still arctic morning about 600 miles from the North Pole. And there is a polar bear right over my shoulder.
-
KUOW's 'The Wild' with Chris Morgan returns in February
Season 2 of the podcast will be available beginning February 18.
-
What I learned about bears, from a dentist and engineer
On Friday, October 14 we gathered to enjoy "Stories from The Wild" with eight stories presented in front of a live audience at Seattle's McCaw Hall. Below is one of the stories from host Chris Morgan.
-
Looking an orca in the eye: 'The closest thing to alien contact I may ever know'
It was a clear and cold winter day. Alone on my paddle board, I had what seemed like the entire Salish Sea to myself.
-
The moral dilemma of a Buddhist on a squid jigging trip
On Friday, October 14 we gathered to enjoy "Stories from The Wild" with eight stories presented in front of a live audience at Seattle's McCaw Hall. Below is one of the stories from Shin Yu, former poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, who had a crisis of conscience while hunting squid on Puget Sound.
-
Stalking brown bears while sick with giardia and other stories from 'The Wild'
On Friday, October 14 we gathered to enjoy "Stories from The Wild" with eight stories presented in front of a live audience at Seattle's McCaw Hall.
-
The quietest place in the world is … right here in Washington state
Gordon Hempton is the Sound Tracker.
-
If you hear jet planes, RUN. And other lessons from Antarctica
Bonus! An extended interview by host Chris Morgan with wildlife filmmakers Jeff Wilson and Mark Smith.