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Wonder Cabinet

Going Wild

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Looking for wildness, inside and out. Kids Go Wild; How To Reclaim Your Sense of Wonder; The Adventure Gap: Diversity In Outdoor Recreation; "More Hawk Than Human": Helen Macdonald Battles Grief With a Goshawk; BookMark: Werner Herzog on "The Peregrine"; The Dead Lands - Ben Percy's Post-Apocalyptic Wilderness Thriller.

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0:00.0

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0:10.3

More information is at slh Duluth.com slash baby.

0:18.3

It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs.

0:21.4

Today, going wild.

0:27.1

You know, it used to be if you wanted to see a penguin or a grizzly in the wild,

0:31.9

you had to go somewhere with a backpack.

0:35.1

Today it's all on YouTube, where in fact a plain old grizzly in the wild

0:39.6

doesn't even cut it anymore. For a nature video to go viral today, it's got to be phenomenal,

0:45.8

like a seal attacking a shark. So on the one hand, maybe we're getting a little jaded about nature.

0:53.1

And on the other, we're so aware that climate change could make so much of it disappear.

0:59.0

I had done a story in 2007 where I backcountry skied into the northern Rockies of Glacier National Park in Montana

1:06.0

with a researcher who was studying what's going on there with glaciers melting and climate change.

1:12.2

His computer models forecast that the glaciers of Glacier National Park will be gone around the year 2020.

1:19.3

These are glaciers that have been there for 7,000 years.

1:22.2

And I realized my kids will still be teenagers.

1:25.1

Michael Lanza is an outdoor writer who spent a lot of time in backcountry wilderness,

1:30.3

and his response to climate fear was to get outdoors with his family for a year.

1:36.3

Nate, my son was nine and my daughter Alex was seven of the time.

1:40.3

My wife and I had had long conversations, very serious conversations, whether we wanted to go backpacking

1:46.2

Glacier National Park with our kids who were a nice snack size for a grizzly guy or sea kayak

1:52.5

in Alaska's Glacier Bay where there are killer whales.

1:56.0

You know, the water's cold enough that if you capsize a sea kayak and can't get out of

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