Terra Firma Colorado Public Radio

Terra Firma is a new podcast that combines writing about nature with the sounds of the outdoors.

It’s hosted by CMarie Fuhrman — a writer, a poet, an educator, an indigenous woman. Each episode pairs CMarie’s writing with recordings by Jacob Job. He’s a conservationist, an educator, a man very concerned with protecting wild places and with sound.

The sounds in Terra Firma come from places like Buena Vista, Colorado, and a snowy field in late December. Or to Bluff, Utah at the top of Comb Ridge. Or the Payette River in Idaho.

It’s a podcast for those who cannot leave their home, or don’t have the time or access to these places. Take a walk up a mountain, or sit with me beside a river or be CMarie’s companion in these wild places.

Terra Firma from Colorado Public Radio arrives on January 25th. Find it on your favorite podcast app. And don't miss an episode.

On a late afternoon in autumn, when the sun bends the shadows and gives a gold tip to the crowns of Doug fir and lodgepole, CMarie Fuhrman walks into the forest with her cello. Playing for the first time in years, her mind drifts to the ancient death of a robin, the recent death of an elk, the way humans play guns and cellos both.

This episode takes place on Cheyenne and Arapahoe homelands.

Do you want to reach out to the team? Email us at terrafirma@cpr.org.

Host and Writer: CMarie Fuhrman
Field Recordist: Jacob Job
Outdoor audio recorded at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Editor: Erin Jones
Producers: Rebekah Romberg, Kibwe Cooper
Art: Maria Juliana Pinzón
Executive Producer: Brad Turner
Additional Editorial Support: Jo Erickson, Luis Antonio Perez, Emily Williams
Thanks also to Jodi Gersh, Clara Shelton, Arielle Wilson, Martin Skavish and Jon Pinnow

Terra Firma is a production of Colorado Public Radio's Audio Innovations Studio.

On a trail thousands of years old, CMarie sits among the wildflowers near the South Fork Salmon River and watches a tractor cover a fifty-year-old logging road. Maybe someday a woman sitting with her dog in the same place won't know a logging road was ever there at all.

This episode takes place on Nimiipuu, Tukadeka, Shoshone Paiute, and Shoshone Bannock homelands.

Do you want to reach out to the team? Email us at terrafirma@cpr.org.

Host and Writer: CMarie Fuhrman
Field Recordist: Jacob Job
Outdoor audio recorded at Sequoia National Park, California
Editor: Erin Jones
Producers: Rebekah Romberg, Kibwe Cooper
Art: Maria Juliana Pinzón
Executive Producer: Brad Turner
Additional Editorial Support: Jo Erickson, Luis Antonio Perez, Emily Williams
Thanks also to Jodi Gersh, Clara Shelton, Arielle Wilson, Martin Skavish and Jon Pinnow

Terra Firma is a production of Colorado Public Radio's Audio Innovations Studio.

In the birthplace of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, CMarie remembers an early-morning robin song from her childhood. It's a song that stirs an ancient recognition, and it sings us home.

This episode takes place on Cheyenne, Ute, Eastern Shoshone, and Arapahoe homelands.

Do you want to reach out to the team? Email us at terrafirma@cpr.org.

Host and Writer: CMarie Fuhrman
Field Recordist: Jacob Job
Outdoor audio recorded at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Editor: Erin Jones
Producers: Rebekah Romberg, Kibwe Cooper
Art: Maria Juliana Pinzón
Executive Producer: Brad Turner
Additional Editorial Support: Jo Erickson, Luis Antonio Perez, Emily Williams
Thanks also to Jodi Gersh, Clara Shelton, Arielle Wilson, Martin Skavish and Jon Pinnow

Terra Firma is a production of Colorado Public Radio's Audio Innovations Studio.

Returning to the river to witness the annual kokanee salmon migration, CMarie starts to see the seasonal red of the fish everywhere. The kokanee mating, the flowers on the hillside, all these fleeting rituals, are miracles.

This episode takes place on Shoshone-Bannock, Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla homelands.

Do you want to reach out to the team? Email us at terrafirma@cpr.org.

Host and Writer: CMarie Fuhrman
Field Recordist: Jacob Job
Outdoor audio recorded at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Editor: Erin Jones
Producers: Rebekah Romberg, Kibwe Cooper
Art: Maria Juliana Pinzón
Executive Producer: Brad Turner
Additional Editorial Support: Jo Erickson, Luis Antonio Perez, Emily Williams
Thanks also to Jodi Gersh, Clara Shelton, Arielle Wilson, Martin Skavish and Jon Pinnow

Terra Firma is a production of Colorado Public Radio's Audio Innovations Studio.

In the tundra's quiet, unburdened by the chaos of technology, CMarie listens to the wind over the lichens and reflects on the word "rawah," which her ancestors, the Ute, spoke: "wild place."

This episode takes place on Eastern Shoshone and Cheyenne homelands.

Do you want to reach out to the team? Email us at terrafirma@cpr.org.

Host and Writer: CMarie Fuhrman
Field Recordist: Jacob Job
Outdoor audio recorded in the Rawah Wilderness in Colorado
Editor: Erin Jones
Producers: Rebekah Romberg, Kibwe Cooper
Art: Maria Juliana Pinzón
Executive Producer: Brad Turner
Additional Editorial Support: Jo Erickson, Luis Antonio Perez, Emily Williams
Thanks also to Jodi Gersh, Clara Shelton, Arielle Wilson, Martin Skavish and Jon Pinnow

Terra Firma is a production of Colorado Public Radio's Audio Innovations Studio.