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Hello, welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

Today we have with us a guest who just takes in every aspect of the outdoors, or you can

think of.

Her main areas of expertise includes environmentalism, outdoor recreation, backpacking, outdoor

gear reviews, wilderness survival, rock climbing, organic gardening, and she's also author

of an upcoming book.

Meg Karnie, welcome to Pop Bear Hikes.

Hi, thanks for that wonderful welcome.

So Meg, I know I didn't cover everything here.

I'm just trying to scratch the surface here to let our listeners know a little bit about

you, but why not you enlighten us some more and tell us about yourself?

Sure, so I grew up in rural Minnesota, kind of in the Southwest corner on the Great Plains.

And a lot of my childhood was spent on my grandfather's farm, and he was a conservationist,

so that kind of instilled a lot of my environmental advocacy at an early age.

Then I went to university for communication arts and literature, kind of jumped around

a lot, didn't follow a traditional career path, and explored a lot of different jobs in

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