This episode of Renegade Naturalist Radio features Charles Beveridge, widely considered the foremost authority on the life and work of Frederick Law Olmsted.Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was the visionary urban planner and landscape architect behind dozens of important U.S. city parks in the late 1900s. Starting in 1857 with the design of Central Park in New York City, … [Read more...]
Renegade Naturalist Radio #5: Interview with Charles C. Mann, Bestselling Author of 1491 and 1493
This episode of Renegade Naturalist Radio features journalist and bestselling author Charles C. Mann, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, followed in 2011 by 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (audio player above.)In addition to his immensely popular and highly readable books, Mann is also a correspondent and contributing editor for … [Read more...]
Renegade Naturalist Radio #4: Interview with National Parks Author and Expert, Alfred Runte
This episode of Renegade Naturalist Radio features Alfred Runte, the author of National Parks: The American Experience and an expert on the meaning of protected landscapes (audio player above.)In the interview, Runte discusses the ongoing debate about the appropriate use of national parks by visitors as described in the Organic Act, written by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. in … [Read more...]
Renegade Naturalist Radio #3: Interview with Conservation Trailblazer, Richard Rice
This episode of Renegade Naturalist Radio features Dr. Richard E. Rice, Co-Founder and President of the Conservation Agreement Fund (audio player above.)The Conservation Agreement Fund is the only non-profit devoted exclusively to supporting conservation agreements in developing countries, serving as, in Rice’s words, “a kind of mother ship” for their projects, providing … [Read more...]
Renegade Naturalist Radio #2: Interview with Arctic Explorer John Bockstoce
This episode of Renegade Naturalist Radio features historian, author, and archaeologist, John R. Bockstoce (audio player above.)John has been traveling and working in the North since 1962. There, he carried out a series of excavations at Bering Strait, serving for ten seasons as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew at Point Hope, Alaska. In the 1970s he descended the Tanana … [Read more...]
Renegade Naturalist Radio #1: Lewis & Clark And the The Allure of the Adventurers
In the debut episode of Renegade Naturalist Radio, Dan discusses how he retraced the journey of Lewis & Clark for his book, Passage of Discovery, and explains how his childhood love of adventurers lead him to Lewis and Clark's famous journals and ultimately fueled his professional desires. … [Read more...]