Patagonia has just launched a podcast, Patagonia Stories. In each episode,

host our Chana Rom will explore how we gather knowledge and ask questions about our relationship

to each other in the natural world. Questions like, how are lessons passed down through generations

to help us feel at home? What barriers prevent us from acquiring natural wisdom? How can we adapt

in the face for rapidly changing climate? There's so much more to come. You can find the first season

of Patagonia Stories wherever you get your podcasts.

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So, Fitz, living in the West, I grew up with forest fires. There's something that always happened

in the summer, but the scale is changing a lot, and it's making me realize that a lot is changing

really fast, and I think I probably share an emotion with most of us that live in these western

states that are burning right now. It's scary. It feels like our world and our future might be

really different than what it was even just a couple years ago. I would say that it's certainly

on a personal level. Yeah, fires become way more of my life in the last three or four years.

At least in Washington, it really has to. I think it was something that was like,

oh, occasionally we have smoke blowing in from Canada or the BC fires or some fire on the East

out of the mountains, but it has just been, there's some period every year where we're experiencing

it in Seattle, and that was not the case beforehand. Yeah, no, that's the same for me. I think about

fire a lot more than I used to, and it's mainly realized that there's a lot that I don't know about

it as someone who spends a lot of time in the mountains, and I'm sure you're the same Fitz. I feel

like I have a decent awareness of the other elements at play, like weather systems, river crossings,

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