The Wild presents How Wild: Solitude

The Wild with Chris Morgan

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Science, Nature

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We are taking a break over the holidays in order to finish up our series about national parks. We’ll be back in your feed on January 7 with a visit to Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska. We’ll learn how the trickles of chilly glacial meltwater are creating a flourishing ecosystem.

But in the meantime, I wanted to share an episode from a podcast I think you’ll really like called How Wild. It’s from our friends at KALW Public Media and the NPR Network. The podcast looks at the meaning of wilderness, sixty years since the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964.

The law set aside areas within national parks and forests and other federal public lands for an extra level of protection. These wilderness areas have to be “undeveloped” and “natural” and they have to have opportunities for “primitive, unconfined recreation” and “solitude.”

But so much has changed since the passage of the Wilderness Act. In this episode, host Marissa Ortega-Welch looks at solitude and what that means these days with so many people hitting the trails.

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0:32.6	available for iOS and Android. Hi, everyone. We're taking a short break over the holiday so we can finish up production on our series about America's National Parks. We'll be back in your feed on January 7th with a visit to stunning Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska. There I learn how the trickles from a melting glacier turn into a flourishing ecosystem full of life.
0:57.5	But in the meantime, I wanted to share an episode from a podcast I think you'll really like called How Wild.
1:04.9	It's from our friends at KALW and the NPR Network.
1:09.3	The podcast explores the meaning of wilderness since the passage of the
1:13.4	Wilderness Act of 1964. That law set aside areas within national parks and forests
1:20.0	and other federal public lands for an extra level of protection. These wilderness areas have to be
1:26.8	undeveloped and natural, and they have to have
1:30.0	opportunities for primitive, unconfined recreation and solitude. But so much has changed since the
1:37.2	passage of the Wilderness Act. In this episode of How Wilde, host Marissa Ortega Welch looks at
1:43.3	solitude, and what that means these days with so many
1:46.3	people hitting the trails. Hope you enjoy. See you on January 7th.
1:54.4	Hello. Morning.
1:58.2	Did you have a good place?
1:59.6	Yes, but it wasn't long enough.
2:05.8	My best friend Holly and I wanted to hike the John Muir Trail in California, Sierra, Nevada.
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