The Wild with Chris Morgan
Welcome to Season 7!
The Wild with Chris Morgan is a celebration of the natural world and the people devoted to wild places and incredible species. This season, host and ecologist Chris Morgan will bring us face to face with some of the most extraordinary creatures finding unique and inspiring ways to adapt and thrive in environments under increasing stress. From America’s biggest cat, the jaguar, trying to navigate the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico to humpback whales coming back to the shores of British Columbia to hummingbirds surviving in the brutal Arizona desert. We’ll explore the species through the elements of land, water, and air to discover the miracles and oddities that make mother nature so endlessly fascinating.
The Wild with Chris Morgan is a production of KUOW and Chris Morgan Wildlife, with support from Wildlife Media. It is produced by Matt Martin and Lucy Soucek. It is edited by Jim Gates. It is hosted, produced and written by Chris Morgan. Fact checking by Apryle Craig. Our theme music is by Michael Parker.
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Episodes
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A short check-in from Chris
The new season kicks off in March
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Evolving ecology: Wisdom from 30 years as a fire lookout
Jim Henterly spent more than 70 days alone at the Desolation Peak Fire Lookout station last summer. He was there to keep an eye out for smoke plumes but also so much more.
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Make it like it was: Clean, cold and flowing Gold Creek of Snoqualmie Pass
We can’t reset the clock on all the changes we’ve made to our natural ecosystems, but when we can, life is ready to thrive again.
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Two-Eyed Seeing as a way to decolonize western science
There’s a way to understand nature through both the perspectives of indigenous knowledge and western science alongside each other. It’s a concept known as “two eyed seeing”.
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Coral reefs: a biological symphony being silenced
A common misunderstanding about the sea is that it is silent down there, a quiet world beneath the waves, but it actually couldn't be further from the truth. The coral reef is the noisiest ecosystem in the sea.
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Hard Knocks: Lessons from the woodpecker
Woodpeckers will peck at a tree up to 12,000 times a day and just one woodpecker peck produces about 15 times the force needed to give a human a concussion. So, how do woodpeckers bang their heads so much, and so hard and not come away with brain damage?
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Nuclear sea otters: A wildlife refugee story
Fifty years later, we checked in on a rescue mission to save sea otters from nuclear annihilation and recolonize them along the west coast of North America.
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Happy 46th Birthday! An Earth Day message from Chris
An Earth Day message from Chris
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The Cougar Conundrum
How we are sharing the world with a successful predator
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True grit: the wild wolverine
For the first time in 100 years, wolverines are back in Mount Rainier National Park. How did they get there?
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The Comeback Cat: Spain’s Iberian lynx
How did what used to be the rarest cat on earth leap a staggering 1000% in number in just 20 years?
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How to love a shark
There are 540 shark species in the world and 143 of them are endangered. Rachel Graham is their evangelist.