Ben Goldfab is an independent conservation journalist. He’s the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, named one of the best books of 2023 by the New York Times, and Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

Ben’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Science, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The Guardian, High Country News, Outside Magazine, Smithsonian, bioGraphic, Pacific Standard, Audubon Magazine, Scientific American, Vox, OnEarth, Yale Environment 360, Grantland, The Nation, Hakai Magazine, VICE News, and other publications.

His fiction has appeared in publications including Motherboard, Moss, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Hopper, which nominated me for a Pushcart Prize. My non-fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing and Cosmic Outlaws: Coming of Age at the End of Nature. I live in Colorado with his wife, Elise, and his dog, Kit — which is, of course, what you call a baby beaver.

In this episode, Mark and Ben speak about beavers and their importance in balancing the ecosystems in which they live, animal migration patterns and how humans have impacted these routes and much more.

To read some of Ben's works, see the links below:

• Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

• Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

• Articles

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Alison Fox is the CEO of American Prairie, a nonprofit working for the restoration of 3.5 million acres of prairie in Montana and has led the organization since February 2018. She holds an MBA from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and a B.A. in history from Dartmouth College. She's a member of the big Sky chapter of the Young Presidents Organization and the advisory board of William and Mary's Institute for Integrative Conservation.

Alison and American Prairie have been featured in many publications and productions, including National Geographic, the BBC, PBS, and on 60 minutes on CBS. Today, we talk about tough conversations with our neighbors, making a place at the long table for folks who see the world differently, buffalo as a keystone species of the prairie, staying in the long game with a big vision and other topics.

Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣

Produced: Emilie Firn

Edited: Patrick Troll⁣

Music: Whiskey Class⁣

Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast

Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com

Support wild salmon at www.evaswild.com

Seth is co-author of A Forest of Your Own: The Pacific Northwest Handbook of Ecological Forestry and Executive Director of Northwest Natural Resource Group or NNRG. Seth has spent the last 25 years as a practitioner in West Coast forests and watersheds, and as a writer, telling the stories of people’s relationships with the rest of the natural world. His roots are in northern California, where he directed the Wild and Working Lands program for the Mattole Restoration Council, collaborating with private landowners in realms that included light-touch timber harvest, fire hazard reduction, and invasive species control. He came to the Northwest in 2013 in search of steadier precipitation. He holds an A.B. in Energy Studies from Stanford University and an M.S. in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley. Seth’s favorite thing to do in the forest is to forage for delectable mushrooms.

In this episode, Mark and Seth discuss Seth’s work in sustainable forestry practices here in the PNW and elsewhere.

For more about NNRG and Seth’s work, check out the links below:

• https://sethzuckerman.com/
• Book: Saving Our Ancient Forests

Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣

Produced: Emilie Firn

Edited: Patrick Troll⁣

Music: Whiskey Class⁣

Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast

Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com

Support wild salmon at evaswild.com