On this episode we have:

• Rogan blasts liberal policies for enabling mountain lions to eat pets | Fox News
•   Kentucky Fish and Wildlife accepting Christmas trees to create fish habitat
•   Report: Urgent Colorado ‘Furbearer’ Reforms Needed to Protect Wildlife - Center for Biological Diversity
• See stunning photos from National Wildlife Photo Contest 2025
• Bill could fund wildlife crossings in Montana, beyond | News | bozemandailychronicle.com

• 8 Everyday Habits You Can Change That Actually Make a Difference for Wildlife
• Marshland mashup: Red wolf-coyote hybrids adapt to coastal Louisiana • Louisiana Illuminator
• Raccoons are evolving to be as cute and cuddly as pets — and they want inside your homes
• Enviros confirm new jaguar 'Cinco' spotted in Southern Az

• The State of Colorado's Wildlife Crossings
• Future of Dauphin Island foxes remains undecided
• Humanity rises as wildlife recedes: Two studies show the extent of human domination over nature
• California passes law to phase out gillnet fishing in state waters to protect underwater wildlife

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Marlon has brilliantly leveraged his role in Colorado to advocate for animals of all kinds, from puppies in pet stores to wolves in the wild, Marlon has consistently pushed for humane treatment of all species.

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• Grizzly bears aren't wolves
• Big scary bobcats?
• Border wall jaguar
• Snakes hear with their jaws

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• Bighorn Sheep in Colorado
• Ghost Wolves in Texas
• Grand Jury for Hope 
• Movies that Scare Wolves

For nearly three decades, his work has bridged law, ecology, and ethics, with a focus on the public trust doctrine and intergenerational equity. Dr. Treves has published more than 130 scientific papers advancing predator-prey ecology and conservation.

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• Dogs doing citizen science
• San Francisco whales dying
• ESA down-listed by president, congress and agencies
• Animals fleeing Yellowstone

• Da Bears in Illinois
• Bobcat Mismanagement
• Ospreys in Decline
• Drilling for Oil in Alaska

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• Wyoming looking out for babies
• New Mexico helping the beaver
• North Dakota grass for birds
• Legendary wolf dies

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• North Carolina town celebrates the hellbender
• Wyoming keeps killing too many lions
• Spa day for orcas
• Public lands not for sale

• Red Rock Natural History Museum
• Cowspiracy
• What The Health

• Car crashes and wildlife
• Rattlesnake roundup
• Ladies helping the jag
• Public land sale

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• Elks Slaughter Bill in Montana
• Bison given new status in Colorado
• Lead ammo in wildlife and humans

• Smiling Salamanders learn to live
• Money up for grabs!
• Lead poisoned bald eagles
• Hellbenders need help

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• • Wolf killed in Colorado
  • Sea otters get another chance
  • Heavyweight bobcat

Michelle holds a PhD in wildlife management from Michigan State University, an MS in Animal Behavior and Ecology from the University of Notre Dame, and a BS in Geography and Environmental Science from Valparaiso University. She started her environmental career in the National Park Service, worked for large and small nonprofits, state government and held research positions at universities across the US.  Michelle has authored over 30 publications in ecology and social sciences to develop evidence-based approaches to human-wildlife coexistence.

• https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/how-colorados-first-elk-migration-agreement-marks-a-big-step-for-conservation-and-agricultural-productivity
• Billboards celebrate parks, call out DOGE
• Right-way Right Whales

The Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust and the Property and Environment Research Center combine efforts to provide elk habitat, while More Perfect Union trolls DOGE with brilliant billboards. Finally, 2 lost Right Whales left Alabama for Canada.

• New Mexico wildlife agency gets new name and mission
• Cougars coming back to Vermont?
• After 11 more bears killed, judge orders stop to Alaska predator control program
• California California county declares state of emergency over gray wolf activity

Then we are joined by Matt Barnes. Matt is a conservation scientist, rangeland ecologist, and advocate for human-wildlife coexistence based in southwestern Colorado. With a background in wildlife ecology and range science, he has dedicated his career to integrating ecological principles into land management practices across the American West. Barnes has served in various roles, including as a rangeland management specialist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and as a prescribed fire manager with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Through his multifaceted work, Barnes continues to bridge the gap between ecological science and practical land management, aiming to create resilient landscapes that support both human livelihoods and wildlife conservation.

• Indigo Snakes released in FL
• Great White Shark Killers
• Alligators at the door
• Rare Black Jaguar

**Mark said that an animal lacking pigment is melanistic, but they are actually leucistic.**

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• The US government’s war on wildlife, explained in 3 charts
• 'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times
• This cute animal is one of Yosemite’s ‘most dangerous,’ rangers say
• Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

Then we interview Chris Schadler about eastern coyotes and wolves. Chris taught in the Department of Natural Resources at UNH and lectured at Granite State College since 1993. Her MS in Conservation Biology focused on wolf recovery in Michigan but her real education occurred in NH on her sheep farm, figuring out how to live with coyotes. She is now the NH and VT Rep for Project Coyote, a national organization promoting coexistence with coyotes and for 30 years has lectured throughout New England on the Eastern Coyote. She is a member of the North East Wolf Coalition and leads Wolf Trips to Algonquin Provincial Park and beyond.

• Feds kill endangered, potentially pregnant, Mexican wolf
• Is killing animals an effective way to regulate populations?
• Why are we afraid of snakes?
• Building bobcat alley in New Jersey

Then, Mark and Sam are joined by Ryan Sedgeley, an advocate for gray wolves and other imperiled species in Colorado for the Endangered Species Coalition.

He holds an M.A. in Environment and Natural Resources and a J.D. from the University of Wyoming. Along with his formal education, he spent nearly 10 years living with wolves, grizzly bears, and bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. He brings that knowledge and experience to his work helping people and organizations in Colorado understand how to live peacefully with wolves and other imperiled species.

• Trump threatens to revoke tax-exempt status of environmental nonprofits
• Frog, Lizard, Salamander Added to New York’s Endangered Species List
• Patenting woolly mammoths
• Are Dire wolves Pontiacs with a body kit?
• Baby Colossal Squid caught on camera

Then, we are joined by Max Seigal, renowned photographer and biologist, to talk wildlife expeditions, how to be a professional adventurer and photographer, and dung of all kinds.

• REI backtracks endorsement
• Demonic sea lions (they can be treated!)
• Colossal Dire Wolf de-extincted
• Italian town welcomes bears

Then, urban wildlife rehabbers Jack Murphy and Katherine McGill join to discuss nonlethal wildlife conflict solutions for folks encountering unwelcome possums, raccoons, squirrels and more! 

• Monarch butterflies get sick from the wrong milkweed 
• Landowners in Wyoming paid for elk presence?
• Unlimited wolf hunting bill dies in Montana
• Essay on insights into human wildlife coexistence using indigenous and traditional knowledge

Then, an interview with leading Grizzly Bear expert, Dr. Chris Servheen on how we can support Grizzly Bear recovery in today's political climate.

Chris was the Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 35 years until retiring in 2016. He coordinated grizzly recovery actions for grizzly bears in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Washington and cooperated with Canadian researchers and managers in adjacent areas of British Columbia and Alberta.

As a Research Associate Professor at the University of Montana, he taught International Wildlife Conservation for 18 years. He advised 21 graduate students at the University of Montana who worked bears and various research projects in the US and in 7 foreign countries. He was co-chair with Steve Herrero of the BSG for 12 years.

Dr. Servheen has also chaired 8 interagency Boards of Review on human fatalities due to grizzly bear attacks in the lower 48 states.

• Sharktopus
• Lauren Boebert wants to delist wolves federally
• Point Reyes public access
• Turtle leaps to safety from eagles nest

Then, an interview with Dr. Fred Koontz an ethological zoologist on ethical considerations in wildlife management.

Dr. Koontz has a long, diverse, wildlife career at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Wildlife Trust (now “EcoHealth Alliance”), Teatown, Woodland Park Zoo, and Washington Fish & Wildlife Commission. Fred has held adjunct appointments at Columbia University, New York University, and University of Washington.

• DOGE is at it again- firing Fish and Wildlife employees
• Colorado wolf killed in Wyoming
• First wolf predation in Pitkin County CO
• How do seals know when to surface?

Then, an interview with Emma Helverson, executive director of Wild Fish Conservancy, discussing the intertwined destinies of endangered southern resident orcas and wild salmon.

• "Furbearer" policies in Colorado
• Washington Governor rescinds appointment of leading scientist to wildlife commission
• Central Park coyote in parking garage
• Trump increases logging in National Forests

Followed by an incredibly important conversation with Dan Flores, author, historian, and Project Coyote Ambassador. The history of humans and wildlife in North America is essential to understanding the institutions that govern wildlife management today.

A native of Louisiana, Dan Flores is a writer who presently lives in the Galisteo Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of the History of the American West at the University of Montana-Missoula.  He is the author of ten books, most recently the New York Times Bestseller, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (2016), and American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (2016).  Pulitzer-winning novelist Annie Proulx has written that “his work ranks with that of Thoreau, William Bartram, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Peter Matthiessen.”

Dr. Flores’s essays on the environment, art, and culture of the West have appeared in newspapers like the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune, and in magazines such as Texas Monthly, Orion, Wild West, Southwest Art, The Big Sky Journal, and High Country News. His work has been honored by the Western Writers of America, the Denver Public Library, the Western Heritage Center/National Cowboy Museum, the High Plains Book Awards, the Montana Book Awards, and the Oklahoma Book Awards, and by the Western History Association, the Montana Historical Society, and the Texas State Historical Association.

• River otters can be trapped for damage in Wyoming
• Wally the beaver saved by advocates
• Travel to the Savannah Wildlife Refuge
• Wolf pups could be on the way in Colorado

Then, Scott Wilson, Wild Horse Photojournalist and 2022 Sony World Photography Awards Winner joins the pod to discuss wild horses, how we "manage" them, sterilization solutions, and how you can get involved in wild horse solutions.

• Nutria nuggets?
• Super pods of dolphins
• UK beaver reintroductions
• 11 raptors poached in Beaver County, UT

Then, Renee Seacor, carnivore conservation director for Project Coyote, joins the pod to discuss the state of coyotes in 2025 legislative sessions across the United States.

• Mysterious illness is sickening Florida Panthers
• Wildlife crossings for red wolves
• DOGE goes after the NPS

Then, Jad Davenport talks about his storied career, from local foxes to war zones, and photographing wolves and polar bears with Nat Geo.

• Buffalo Restoration with the Tanka Fund
• Former Wyoming Game and Fish director nominated by Trump to serve as the director of USFWS
• Maybe dogs didn't need us at all to domesticate themselves
• Snow fox: enjoy 17 seconds of pure bliss with a gorgeous video of red fox in winter

Then, Mandy Culbertson, communications director for Wildlife for All, joins the pod to discuss why the language we use when discussing wildlife "management" matters. Words matter document.

Frequently, wildlife managers sanitize language when discussing wild animals and during this episode we discuss frequently used words and what we should use instead to shift the narrative around wild animals.

• Is otter trapping in Wyoming's future?
• Avian flu is spreading, affecting wild birds the most
• Two right whales make a baffling trip along the US Gulf Coast

Then, Carter Niemeyer joins the pod for an eye opening conversation. From his early years as a paid government trapper to his leadership in Yellowstone wolf reintroduction, Carter Niemeyer reveals how the government kills wild animals for livestock producers and how he turned from a trapper - a killer - into a champion of wolves.

Carter's new book, "The Other Ten Wolves: A Yellowstone Backstory" is coming to brick and mortar and online bookstores soon!

1. Which is worse for wildlife, wind farms or off-shore drilling?
2. Montana considers increased wolf killing
3. Saudi Syndrome and the future of hunting in Colorado
4. Mountain lion tracking dog stranded overnight; saved by Search and Rescue

Then, an interview with R. Brent Lyles, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation. Brent discusses the biggest threats facing mountain lions in America today and how we can work together to help the species thrive.

• Bobcats in Indiana will be trapped for the first time in over 50 years
• Deer in Montana's Flathead County infected with CWD
• Mountain lions are being hazed with hounds in Colorado
• New pine marten research underway in Wisconsin 

Then, a fascinating discussion with Dr. Larry Taylor, a wildlife biologist, paleontologist, and talented wildlife photographer. During the week, Dr. Taylor is a biology professor, but when class is out, he spends more than 100 days annually photographing the wild animals of Yellowstone. Dr. Taylor discusses animal interactions that have left a lasting impression on him, and why biologists should consider individual animals and populations when making management decisions. 

1. A PSA from Mark and Project Coyote: It's coyote mating season!
2. Fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office
3. CPW concludes second year of wolf capture and release
4. An update on Tahlequah the Southern Resident Orca

Then, Mark and Sam are joined by wildlife biologist Gary Skiba of the San Juan Citizens Alliance to discuss his career as an agency wildlife biologist (including bighorn sheep!) and the politics of becoming a Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioner. 

1. Commercial net pen aquaculture banned in the Puget Sound
2. California wildfires and wildlife impacts
3. Bald eagles are the national bird and die from lead poisoning
4. Grizzly bears retain their Endangered Species Act protections

Then, an interview with Dr. Susan Kane Roning, psychologist and co-Chair of the Washington Sierra Club Wildlife Committee, on the psychology behind wildlife abuse.

Why does our culture permit wolf whacking? What is the impact to bystanders? How does the dark triad interface with wildlife cruelty? And how advocates can be "upstanders" in situations of wildlife abuse.

Then, we dive into a compelling interview with renowned ethologist Dr. Marc Bekoff, who sheds light on animal sentience and the emotional lives of creatures big and small. Our conversation takes a closer look at Colorado’s wolves, delving into their family lives, challenges, and what their return means for coexistence in the region.