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 ...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 4 min
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...
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 6 min
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 ...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr
David Moskowitz works in the fields of photography, wildlife biology and education. He is the photographer and author of three books: Caribou Rainforest , Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest and Wolves in the Land of Salmon , co-author and photographer of Peterson’s Field Guide to North American Bird Nests and photographer of Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin . He has contributed his technical expertise to a wide variety of wildlife studies regionally and in the Canadian and ...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Renee Erickson is a James Beard award-winning chef, author, and co-owner of multiple properties in Seattle, Washington: The Walrus and the Carpenter, The Whale Wins, Barnacle, Boat Bar, Bateau, Lioness, Deep Dive, Willmott's Ghost, Westward, and several General Porpoise Doughnuts and Coffee locations. As a Seattle native (well, Woodinville to be exact), Renee's restaurants highlight the bounty of the Pacific Northwest with a European sensibility. Bon Appetit Magazine has compared her to M.F.K. F...
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Julie Paama-Pengelly is a Māori tā moko artist, painter, commentator, & curator and is a veteran in the revitalization of taa moko Maaori tattooing. Her studio in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand mixes contemporary and traditional designs and cultivates artists from all walks of life. With expansive teaching experience, her art practice ranges from the use of symbolic imagery to pure abstraction in graphic design, painting, mixed media, and tattooing. Over time many misconceptions have surfaced ...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Howard Wood was born in 1954 and has lived on the Isle of Arran since the age of 14 and he's been diving the seas around Arran Island Scotland since 1973. In 1995, he and fellow diver Don MacNeish set up the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST). Since 2003, Howard has spent the majority of his time volunteering with COAST. He has an extensive knowledge of the marine environment in the Clyde, has created a photographic and video archive of Arran marine life, and was COAST Chair for ten years b...
Nov 04, 2024•57 min
Dr. Jason Ransom is the wildlife program supervisor with the North Cascades National Park Service and adjunct professor at Washington State University School of the environment. He has a PhD and MSC in ecology from Colorado State University, and has traveled the world working with large carnivores. In this episode, we discuss feeling the edge of being when in the field with critters who can eat you, why reintroduce grizzly bears into the North Cascade Mountains at all, hearing out people who don...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Alexandra Climent is a rainforest conservationist, sculptural artist, and the founder of Endangered Rainforest Rescue, a women and Indigenous-led nonprofit organization working to restore biodiversity by planting endangered tree species and protecting indigenous land in the Darién Gap of Panamá. Alexandra has led expeditions for several years into this unexplored rainforest where she and her team are working to reforest an essential corridor for the endangered jaguar. The main goal is to use end...
Sep 23, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Aaron Adams, PhD. has lived, worked, and fished on both coasts of the US, and in the Caribbean, where he has been conducting fish research for more than 25 years. His pursuit of effective fish and habitat conservation is rooted in his years growing up near Chesapeake Bay, where he witnessed the decline of the Bay’s habitats and fisheries. Aaron has been an avid angler since the age of five, and was even known to skip school in pursuit of fish.The why and how of fish and their habitats became a p...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Skye Steritz is a small business owner, an activist and a teacher. She co-owns Noble Ocean Farms with her husband, Sean, which aims to improve both human health and ocean health through cultivating sugar kelp, ribbon kelp, and bull kelp in a responsible and ethical way. As an activist, she works to protect clean water and is actively involved in habitat preservation and restoration in the Eyak territory of Alaska, where she lives year-round. Following the leadership of dAXuhnyuu (the Eyak People...
Aug 26, 2024•1 hr
Peter Gros is a veteran wildlife expert. As the co-host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, Peter Gros shares his love of wildlife and wilderness with audiences throughout the country. Gros joined the original Wild Kingdom team in 1985 and has nearly 30 years of field experience with captive wildlife, establishing breeding programs for endangered animals and rehabilitation programs for birds of prey. He's a USDA licensed Exhibition Exhibitor and Animal Educator, and an active ...
Aug 12, 2024•58 min
Sarah, Kathryn and Chance Ruder are the husband and wife founders of the Conservation Connection podcast . Chance and Sarah Kathryn record rigorous and curious conversations with people who are saving the planet. Their passion for this planet and the people working to protect it led them to create not only the podcast, but their 501c3 nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for anyone to learn how to care for our planet by bringing engaging and educational programs to them wherever the...
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Hey, friends, just a heads up to let you know I'm going to be on the Conservation Connection podcast tomorrow with hosts Chance and Sarah Kathryn Ruder and then they're going to be on my Save What You Love podcast on July 29th. If you haven't listened to their show yet, it's excellent. And if you haven't subscribed to Save What You Love yet, here's your chance. Both two great opportunities to do a deep dive into what it means about saving what we love on our planet and within our own hearts and ...
Jul 22, 2024•43 sec
Erin Ranney is a wildlife cinematographer based in Alaska, Washington State and the Falkland Islands. With a variety of remote field experience, both on boats and land, she’s set up and run remote field camps in Alaska. As a cinematographer, she’s captured footage for companies such as BBC, PBS, Smithsonian, Disney+ and National Geographic. One of her most recent series includes the National Geographic/Disney+ series ‘Queens’, which recently premiered in March 2024. While experienced in filming ...
Jul 15, 2024•57 min
Woody Tasch is the founder and chairman of the Slow Money Institute , a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that bring money back down to earth. Since 2010, via local Slow Money networks in dozens of communities in the U.S. and a few in Canada, France and Australia, over $57 million has gone to 632 small, local and organic food enterprises. Tasch is...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 12 min
AlexAnna Salmon is President of the Igiugig Village Council. She is of Yup’ik and Aleut descent and was raised in the village of Igiugig, Alaska. In 2008, AlexAnna graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Native American Studies and Anthropology. After graduating, she returned to work for the Igiugig Tribal Village Council where she was elected President and, until 2016, also held the role of Administrator. AlexAnna serves as a member of the Igiugig Native Corporat...
Jun 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Stacy Bare is a husband, father, skier, rafter, surfer and climber. As a veteran of the Iraq war, he co-founded the Great Outdoors Lab (GO Lab) in 2014 to put scientifically defensible data behind the idea of time outside as healthcare in partnership with Dr. Dacher Keltner at the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. Stacy is a 2014 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year & the 2015 SHIFT Conservation Athlete of the Year. In 2015, he launched Adventure Not War (ANW), a project desi...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Ash Rodriguez is a Seattle-based award winning food writer and photographer. She is the author of three cookbooks ; Date Night In, Let’s Stay In, and Rooted Kitchen - which just came out here in the Spring of ‘24. Ash is also the host and co-creator of the James Beard nominated series, Kitchen Unnecessary ; an online series which uncovers the world of wild foods through foraging, fishing and regenerative harvesting. Ash and her work have been featured in Outside Magazine, Food & Wine, Saveur...
May 20, 2024•1 hr 13 min
In this episode, Mark sits down for a compelling discussion with Indian Law expert, Robert Miller. Bob’s areas of expertise are Federal Indian Law, American Indians and international law, American Indian economic development, Native American natural resources, and Civil Procedure. He is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. He is the Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar at ASU and the Faculty Director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program at ASU...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr
Amy Gulick is an award-winning nature photographer and writer. She is the author of celebrated books, The Salmon Way and Salmon In The Trees . This is one of the richest conversations about the deep love, true honor and inherent duty of living in salmon country we've had since we started the podcast. Settle in and enjoy. Proudly partnered with Magic Canoe . Tell your story in salmon country! Check out more about Amy and her work: The Salmon Way Salmon in the Trees Save What You Love with Mark Ti...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Ashley Koff, RD is Maine based, registered dietician who has seen it all. Ashley started on the other side of the divide with respect to holistic nutrition, in the big Food sales and marketing world. After a suspicious encounter with a goat-milk regimen, Ashley came to the realization that there must be a better way . On this episode, Mark and Ashley Creators & Guests Ashley Koff RD - Guest Mark Titus - Host dive into this as well as her personal encounters with Bristol Bay and why Bristol B...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Todd Soliday and Leah Warshawski spent a good portion of last week in the air, filming the wonder and fury of Mauna Loa, the world’s largest volcano erupting in Hawaii. They also do things like film with whales, work on projects for Barack and Michelle Obama and make art with Mark on his first two documentaries, The Breach and The Wild . Among other memorable adventures, Todd and Mark spent 4 days in Ketchikan filming time-lapse footage with beloved Alaska artist, Ray Troll as he drew salmon in ...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Creators & Guests Tom Colicchio - Guest Mark Titus - Host Tom Colicchio was a co-founder of Bravo’s wildly popular, Top Chef reality-tv show. He’s also the chef and owner of Crafted Hospitality, which currently includes New York’s Craft, Temple Court and Vallata; Long Island's Small Batch; Craft Los Angeles; and Heritage Steak and Craftsteak in Las Vegas – and also ‘wichcraft – a premier sandwich and salad joint in New York. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Tom made his New York cooking debut ...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Tim Troll came to Alaska in 1978 as a VISTA volunteer lawyer and was assigned to an office in Bethel, a remote Yup’ik Indigeous community in Southwestern Alaska. After his tour of duty ended he became the village manager for the Yup’ik community of St. Mary’s on the Yukon River. Tim fell in love with the subsistence lifestyle, hunting, fishing and cultural traditions of these Alaska Native people. He’s now the Executive Director of the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust , which he helped create in ...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Phil Davis and his wife, Cathy moved to the Methow Valley in Washington State and fell in love. Not just with the land, but with the people and the history of this place. That history includes a landscape of hardship for the First People of this valley and the wild salmon who have made the 400-mile journey from the sea back inland here since time immemorial. Phil decided to write a story, with a salmon-eye view about what this journey means. Then he and Cathy went further and led a community eff...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Nanci Morris Lyon is a pioneer in the fly-fishing world. She's a decades-long champion for Bristol Bay and she's a good friend to SWYL host, Mark Titus. Nanci housed and fed Mark while he was filming his documentaries The Breach and The Wild from 2012 - 2017. Nanci holds fly-fishing records and is Bristol Bay's first female to own and operate a full-blown world-class fishing lodge. In this episode Nanci talks about what it takes to persevere in the face of a decades-long conflict and what it mea...
Dec 20, 2021•54 min
Tom Douglas is a James beard award-winning chef and restaurateur based in Seattle. If you live in the PNW, chances are you've encountered Tom at one of his restaurants, on his weekly radio show, on TV, or if you're lucky at one of his in-person Hot Stove Society cooking classes. Tom has been an unwavering champion for the protection of Bristol Bay over the years. He's has been an Executive Producer on both Mark Titus' documentaries, The Breach and The Wild . Currently, Tom is carrying Eva's Wild...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Dr. Jen McIntyre is a professor of aquatic ecology for the Washington State University’s Puyallup division. Mark and Jen break down her work with stormwater runoff and its deleterious effect on salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. Pretty relevant with the onset of November rains here in Salmon Nation. Jen has led youth on wilderness adventures, earned a masters and her ph.D at the University of Washington and been published in dozens of major periodicals. And, she is a voice of hope. Her...
Nov 15, 2021•59 min
On today's episode host, Mark Titus and Joel talk about Joel's work as a film producer and activist. Joel's award-winning film, Sonic Sea tackles the inordinate amount of noise under the water in our oceans that are literally killing marine life, like whales. Joel and Mark also discuss Joel's philosophy and practice in going the distance for huge environmental battles like defending Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine. NRDC’s principal institutional representative in the West, Joel Reynold...
Nov 08, 2021•43 min
