Liz Crandall
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Outdoor joy with a backbone.
Rangers of the Lost Park follows Liz Crandall through friendly, issue-driven conversations about parks, wildlife, farming, fire crews, plants, survival, and public-land politics. It keeps the tone personal and accessible, even when the subject turns serious.
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Rangers of the Lost Park is a public-lands and outdoors show with a very human center. Liz Crandall approaches advocacy through people first, then widens the frame to policy, history, ecology, and community. The show is warm without being vague. It often begins with why a guest matters, where they come from, and what brought them into outdoor work or environmental concern. From there, the conversation can move almost anywhere. A smokejumper running for Congress opens the door to leadership, labor, trust, dark money, fossil-fuel influence, and Montana’s public-land identity. Documentary filmmakers talking about American farmers lead into industrial agriculture, local food, pandemic supply shocks, soybean tariffs, and the fragility of what ends up on the table. A conversation with Aaron Murphy of American Hunters and Anglers makes hunting and fishing part of a broader defense of land, water, wildlife, and public access. A wildland firefighter’s story becomes a window into queer joy, fire crews, travel, road trips, and building community through Keep Flaming. The Everglades episode turns a hard story about Alligator Alcatraz into an ecological history lesson as well as a discussion of human and environmental harm. The show also has a playful side. It makes room for trail tales, park podcast crossovers, plant myths, Big Bend, survival television, and the strange little tangents that make outdoor people feel real. Its pacing is unhurried. Guests are allowed to explain, wander, and connect the dots themselves. The editorial stance is clear: public lands are for ordinary people, and losing access, history, biodiversity, or worker dignity is not just a policy problem. It is personal. Rangers of the Lost Park works best for listeners who want environmental advocacy that sounds like a real conversation, not a briefing.
Made for: For listeners who care about public lands, conservation, outdoor work, food systems, parks, wildlife, and the people fighting to keep those spaces accessible. It especially fits anyone who prefers advocacy through stories instead of sterile policy talk.
What sets it apart: The show blends friendly one-on-one interviews with plainspoken public-lands accountability, moving easily from backstories and hobbies into serious fights over land, labor, history, and ecology. It feels personal before it gets political, which makes the stakes easier to feel.
A podcast for those who love the outdoors and need joy in a world of bad news. Hosted by former ranger Liz Crandall. Co-created by Mikayla Moors. Ranger On!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Rangers of the Lost Park makes outdoor culture feel inseparable from land, labor, food, access, and public responsibility.
Rangers of the Lost Park belongs on the Society & Culture shelf because it treats the outdoors as public life, not escape from it. Liz Crandall works in a steady interview format, returning to public lands, ranger work, farming and food, access to nature, and the politics around…
Liz Crandall connects ballots, binoculars, farm policy, and protest songs so your outdoor curiosity grows sharper elbows.
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A grounded Montana politics discussion that ties Sam Forstag's public-lands background to questions of leadership and trust.
Liz Crandall treats Sam Forstag as more than a campaign profile. The episode keeps his smokejumper and union background in view, then uses it to ask what leadership looks like in Montana's 1st District, especially for people still trying to make ends meet.
A warm interview about farmers, chefs, and why what we eat matters.
Rangers of the Lost Park looks at farmers through food, work, and the food system without losing sight of the people in the middle of it. The strongest stretch comes when Vivian Sorensen and Lisa Holmes talk through how Fork in the Road changed as the world changed around it,…
Plain speech, sharp stakes, and a clear case for keeping public land public.
Rangers of the Lost Park follows Aaron Murphy of American Hunters and Anglers in a plainspoken discussion of public lands, policy, and the people who rely on them.
A birding story about who gets read as belonging in a park.
Nature Al returns to Rangers of the Lost Park with a clear focus on visibility, access, and the assumptions that shape who feels welcome in outdoor spaces.
A folk-music conversation that treats protest songs as living history.
Liz Crandall keeps the hour centered on Kirstie Lynn's singing and on the protest songs that give the conversation its shape. Her own background as a guitarist, singer, and mandolin player lends the episode a lived-in ease, and the path through Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary,…
Career agency for unstable times.
Public ideas, recorded in the room.
Liz Crandall talks with Sam Forstag, a Montana smokejumper and union leader running for Congress in Montana's 1st District.
Liz Crandall opens with the show’s familiar blend of outdoors advocacy and looking for joy in a bad-news world.
Liz Crandall opens with the show’s familiar blend of public lands, advocacy, and trying to find some joy in a world full of bad news.
This episode features an interview with wildland firefighter Jesse Hamner, discussing her career, experiences, and her project Keep Flaming, which builds community for queer firefighters.
This episode explores the ongoing operation and controversy of Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades, delving into its ecological history and featuring an interview with an environmental advocate.
This episode features a collaboration with National Park After Dark to discuss ranger-themed trail tales and important issues facing national parks, including historical preservation and current conservation battles.
This episode features an interview with Woniya Thibeault, the first female winner of the History Channel survival show 'Alone', discussing her wilderness skills and experiences.
This episode features an interview with horticulture professor Vikram Baliga, discussing plants, debunking social media plant hacks, science communication, and community building in nature.
Liz brings Nature Al, also known as Alex Troutman, back to catch up.
Liz Crandall opens with a personal note.
This episode features an interview with SJ Joslin, who was fired from their job at Yosemite National Park for hanging a trans pride flag on El Capitan, discussing the wrongful termination and first amendment implications.
This episode interviews Gaby Rojas from Public Lands Alliance about how nonprofits support federal public lands facing funding cuts and management challenges.
This episode features an interview with Tlingít matriarch Yolanda Fulmer about Alaska's roadless areas, focusing on environmental conservation and indigenous perspectives.
This episode discusses the increasing severity of wildfires, the staffing crisis among wildland firefighters in the U.S.
This episode features an interview with wildlife biologist Ben Vizacaro, discussing his work with the U.S.