MAYA KHOSLA on What the Forest Holds [ENCORE]

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Maya Khosla which originally aired in November 2022. What can the forest teach us of grief, of joy, of humanity? This week, poet and scientist Maya Khosla invites listeners into the forests of Northern California to find deep reverence for the power of biodiversity. Maya’s expertise on wildfires shines through this deep and well-informed conversation as she and Ayana share a love for the forest and deep-seated awe for the complexity of fores...

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0:49.8	Hello and welcome to For the Wild podcast.
0:52.8	I'm Aiana Young.
0:54.4	Today I'm speaking with Maya Kosela.
0:57.3	What's interpreted as destruction is very often, very quickly, a force of creation.
1:07.2	Maya Kossla is a wildlife biologist and writer.
1:10.8	She served as Sonoma County Poet Laureate 2018 to 2020, bringing Sonoma's communities
1:17.5	together through poetry gatherings and field walks after the 2017 fires.
1:23.0	Sonoma County Conservation Council, SCC, selected her as one of the 2020 environmentalists of the year.
1:31.0	Her poetry books include all fires of wind and light
1:35.0	from 16 Rivers Press.
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