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Wolves, wild land, and human responsibility.
The Wolf Connection follows patient conversations with conservation advocates, photographers, hunters, educators, writers, and sanctuary visitors. Its best episodes use wolves as the starting point for wider questions about land, water, forests, wildlife policy, healing, and reciprocity.
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The Wolf Connection is a reflective conversation show built around wolves, wild places, and the human choices that shape both. Its center of gravity is the relationship between people and predators. The episodes rarely stay with wolves alone. A discussion with Cadence Truchot about Grand Teton moves through tribal community engagement, youth programs, newsletters, and ways of reconnecting people to land from valley floor to mountain ridge. A conversation with Eric Washburn turns Colorado winter, water, hunting, beavers, chronic wasting disease, and threatened species into one connected argument about resilient ecosystems. It gets specific. Eleri Lopp brings the show to Estonia, where wolf tracks, European protection rules, hunting quotas, and shifting policy all sit beside a deeper gratitude for what wolves can teach. Paul Koberstein widens the frame again through old growth forests, salmon, northern spotted owls, wolves, cultural burning, and the carbon logic behind cutting or burning trees. The sanctuary episodes add another register. Visitors such as Hannah Rheaume and Tom McPherson describe the strange shift from wild observation to close contact, while Laurie Cousins connects Wolf Connection's programs to trauma-informed education, refuge, and nature-based therapy. The show is strongest when it lets those perspectives breathe. It does not force every guest into a single message. Instead, it keeps returning to reciprocity, attention, and the practical work of caring for living systems. The pacing is measured, and the tone is warm. Listeners hear admiration, worry, curiosity, and grief, often in the same conversation. Sponsor and project announcements sometimes frame the episodes, including material around the Wild Roots film series, but the core experience remains interview-driven. This is conservation audio for people who want story, policy, place, and moral reflection held together without haste.
Made for: For listeners drawn to wildlife conservation, wolf ecology, wild lands, sanctuary work, and slower interviews that connect personal experience to environmental ethics.
What sets it apart: The show pairs sanctuary-grounded wolf experience with broad field conversations, moving naturally from close animal encounters to policy, forests, Indigenous engagement, hunting, therapy, and land stewardship.
Welcome to 'The Wolf Connection' Podcast. Here, we explore the intricate relationship between humans, predators, and the natural world. Topics range from The Future Of Wild Lands, Biodiversity, Biology, Conservation, Co existing with wildlife for the benefit of our ecological future, and Re-discovering the human/wolf connection. Finding common ground within these conversations may prove to be essential to our development as individuals, the cultivation of productive societies, and a sustainable civilization on this planet.Immerse yourself in a broad range of subjects with a wide array of guests from Scientists, Authors, Conservationists, Visual Artists, Ranchers, Hunters, Naturalists and eve…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Wolf Connection makes wildlife conservation legible by tracing how ecology, history, law, and land management shape the survival of wolves and their habitats.
The Wolf Connection follows wolves outward into the systems that determine whether wildlife and habitat endure. In John Potter's interview-led conversations, field knowledge meets public policy: wolf protections and hunting quotas in Estonia, the history of eradication in Texas,…
Beaver quotas become the trapdoor: you arrive for wolves and leave questioning who manages the wild.
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A Texas wolf episode that connects post-Civil War upheaval with the idea of an intact ecosystem.
Texas wolf conservation comes through here as a story about history, fear, and control, with wolves caught in a wider struggle over a changing Texas landscape.
A grounded Grand Teton conversation about Indigenous outreach, community connection, and showing up where people already are.
Grand Teton National Park frames a conversation with Cadence Truchot, the Tribal Community Engagement Fellow. The focus is practical from the start: newsletters, youth programs, community events, job fairs, and the Native American education conference in Riverton, Wyoming.
A Colorado conversation about hunting, wildlife management, and the future of the West.
This Colorado conversation moves from hunting to wildlife management and the pressures facing the West. After the Wild Roots announcement, it settles into a long talk with Eric Washburn, a fifth generation Coloradan who has worked in clean energy and speaks from hunting…
A reflective wolf conversation that ties lived experience to conservation politics.
The episode centers on a wolf advocate in Estonia, moving from lived experience and winter tracks in the snow to the harder questions around hunting, quotas, and protected status.
A journalist connects old-growth forests to species decline, cultural burning, and the politics of climate action.
Old-growth forests sit at the center of this PlayNext episode, as Paul Koberstein links their long life to the health of the wider ecosystem. The conversation moves from environmental reporting into the decline of wolves, salmon, northern spotted owls, and bear populations as…
British landscapes, patiently listened to.
Wildlife wonder, policy, and fieldwork in conversation.
Field conservation, told by the people doing it.
One plant per episode, and a guest who knows it.
Conservation science and good news, from people doing the work.
The Wolf Connection interviews Philip Sosansky and Rick LoBello of the Texas Lobo Coalition about restoring wolves to Texas.
Cadence Truchot, the Tribal Community Engagement Fellow in Grand Teton National Park, describes how she built programs for Indigenous youth from the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, the Wind River Reservation, and the Kiowa Nation.
Eric Washburn joins Wolf Connection for a conversation shaped by a changing West.
The host speaks with Ellery Lopp, a photographer, wolf and forest conservation advocate, and nature guide from Estonia.
Journalist Paul Koberstein, co-author of "Canopy of Titans" with Jessica Applegate, discusses the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest, a 2,500-mile old-growth forest stretching from Northern California to Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
The hosts discuss a new program integrating trauma-informed education with nature and wolf conservation.
A conversation with a photographer about their experiences in Yellowstone and at a wolf sanctuary, exploring the human-wolf connection.
The episode discusses plans for on-the-ground filming and features a visit from a family to a wolf sanctuary, exploring the human-wolf connection.
Interview with wildlife photographer Michelle Valberg about her career and connection to nature.
A conversation about wolf conservation and public land issues in Montana, focusing on finding common ground between stakeholders.
The host introduces a guest from Montana who serves on wildlife advisory councils, discussing his background and love for the outdoors.
An interview with wildlife photographer Hannah Rayom about her work and experiences in Yellowstone.
Host John Calvin interviews filmmaker Angie Ruiz about her upcoming film 'Wonders of the Wolf' and her background in filmmaking.
Host John Calvin interviews PhD fellow Ellen DeMitt about her research on seawolves in Katmai National Park.