Ep. 930: Mountain & Prairie Podcast Host - Ed Roberson

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Science, Health & Fitness, Sports, Nature, Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ed Roberson is a Colorado-based conservationist, storyteller, and creator of Mountain & Prairie, a top-ranked podcast featuring long-form interviews with innovators of the American West.

Since its first episode in early 2016, Mountain & Prairie has gone on to be recognized by the Aspen Institute, Patagonia, Apple Podcasts, MeatEater, The Nature Conservancy, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, High Country News, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the Montana Governor's Office, and more. Thanks to the podcast's popularity, Ed is now a sought-after speaker and moderator at events throughout the United States. He is also the host of the Ranchlands Podcast.

Ed's career has focused on land, water, and conservation for nearly two decades, primarily in the American West. He served as Conservation Director at Palmer Land Conservancy for four years, leading the organization's cutting-edge water conservation efforts on Colorado’s Arkansas River. Prior to Palmer, he was a ranch broker and worked extensively throughout Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. He has also served on boards and committees for a wide range of conservation organizations in Colorado.

Ed holds a BA in economics and an MBA with a concentration in finance, both from Wake Forest University. He is also a proud graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School’s (NOLS) Semester in the Pacific Northwest. Away from work, Ed is a committed husband, father of two, voracious reader, comically slow ultrarunner, and devotee of the Strenuous Life.

Learn more about Ed and his two podcasts below:

Listen to Mountain & Prairie episode with Doug Brinkley here: https://mountainandprairie.com/douglas-brinkley

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today's episode is a little bit unique. We're talking to Ed Robertson. Ed is the host of two podcasts, Mountain and Prairie, as well as the Ranchlands podcast. Mountain and Prairie is one of the first shows I ever really got into. This was way back
0:40.0	in probably 2015, 2016, right around when the show got started. I was looking for a podcast.
0:46.8	This new thing I discovered, and this was one of the first shows I really started listening to.
0:51.2	And it was all about conversations about the American West. I had just moved
0:55.0	out there. I was looking for just to learn more and learn more about the landscapes and the people
1:01.1	and the artists and the conservation of this land. It's always interest me. And Ed Schoe was really
1:07.5	helping me learn so much about things I had never even thought of in perspectives to look at
1:12.7	this area that I was quickly falling in love with, pretty much everything from the Rocky Mountains
1:18.7	all the way to the coast out west. And I loved Ed's story because what really captivated me
1:24.5	early on was his southern accent. He's from North Carolina, as we'll hear.
1:28.0	But he quickly just became a huge inspiration to me.
1:30.9	So this is a huge honor to be able to talk with him, years in the making.
1:34.3	And I kind of geek out in this episode a little bit, and I'm not ashamed about that.
1:39.3	But we really just talk about his career trajectory in this episode.
1:43.4	So we dive into how he was pursuing
1:45.9	real estate development initially and completely did a 180 because if you know about that,
1:51.6	those are the folks that are taking a big piece of land and turning it into like 10,000 houses.
1:58.3	He was wanting to do that and trying to do that out west, quickly learned the
2:02.8	errors of his ways and is doing the opposite now, trying to conserve as much land as possible,
2:08.4	and launched a podcast to do that. Well, this is just taken over his life in a good way and taught,
2:14.6	you know, brought so many amazing opportunities from panel discussions that
2:18.8	he's hosted, all sorts of interviews that he's done with just people he'd never imagined talking
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