This is the Mountain and Prairie podcast. I'm Ed Robertson.

Today's episode is a little bit different. My longtime partners and collaborators at the Nature

Conservancy recently launched a

great new podcast series called On the Move, hosted by TNC storyteller Leah Palmer. It's all about

wild animals, their migrations, and the people working to keep those journeys wild and free.

If you're a longtime Mountain and Prairie listener,

then many of these people, places, and conservation issues will be familiar to you.

In fact, a few of the experts you'll hear over the course of the full series

are past Mountain Prairie guests, including Sammy Mattsaw Jr., Kelsey Malloy, and Nancy

Fishbeine.

So I'm excited to share one of my favorite episodes today, episode four called Distance Champions.

This episode is about creatures of the sky, Sand Hill Cranes, Greater Sage Grouse, Wilson's Fowleropes,

and it digs into why these birds migrate, how new tracking technology

reveals where they actually go, and what stands in their way. You'll also hear from Ted Floyd

of the American Birding Association, who's a good friend of TNC here in Colorado. A big thanks to

the Nature Conservancy for creating such an interesting

and engaging podcast series. If you enjoy it, go subscribe to On the Move and listen to the

whole series. And as always, thanks to everyone who supports Mountain and Prairie via Patreon

and additional podcast support from the Freeflow Institute, the Nature Conservancy in Colorado,

and the Well Done Foundation. And with that, here's Leah Palmer and the On the Move podcast.

Hope you enjoy. I love the dance between like science and wonder. And, you know, sometimes I kind of treat them as like one of the same. And sometimes it's like you need to keep them separate. I mean, to some extent, wonder and science are, are different human expressions. But, but I actually, I'm more struck by how much overlap there is between the two of them. So like in the same breath, in the same sentence,

and the same thought, you can, you have sort of a scientific thought about how on earth

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