This thing that was so rare and therefore valuable in Europe is here in abundance and I want to claim and tame the wilderness as the advance of, you know, using that loaded terminology, civilization. That's how, that's how we civilized Europe and that's what we're going to do here.

Who knew that American wilderness was such a contested, loaded, and difficult term to define.

In the second episode, I'm still in search of understanding

American ideals on wilderness,

and if in fact America's handling of wild lands is globally unique.

But really, I'm on a personal journey to understand the genesis of my own ideas on

wilderness.

I thought they were my own self self-generated, but as I learn about America's

peculiar history, I'm seeing more and more that I'm a product of a culture. I've got the same crew plus one new guy on this

episode. We've got authors Dr. Sarah Dant, Dr. Dan Flores, and Hal Herring. Also author and thorough critic Stephen Ronella.

But new to the crew is documentary filmmaker, native Texan and Mustang Wrangler Ben Masters. The Bear Greece Academy of Back Woodsmanship, philosophy,

and culture is back in session. I really doubt that you're going to want to miss

this one. The idea that Americans' energy was capable of literally taking the last barrel of oil

out of the last piece of ground.

Well, that was evident. This movement began to say

what if we didn't do that to every place? My name is Clay Newcombe and this is the Bear Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant.

Search for insight and unlikely places and where we'll tell the story of Americans who live

their lives close to the land.

Presented by FHF Gear,

American-Made Purpose-built hunting and fishing gear

that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore.

I take infinite I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then to my chagrin I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read

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