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Made for audiophiles and nature lovers alike, Future Ecologies is a podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Every episode is an invitation to see the world in a new light — weaving together narrative and interviews with expert knowledge holders.

The format varies: from documentary storytelling to stream-of-consciousness sound collage, and beyond. Episodes are released only when they're ready, not on a fixed schedule (but approximately monthly).

This ad-free, independent podcast is supported by our community on Patreon: https://www.futureecologies.net/patrons

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Made for audiophiles and nature lovers alike, Future Ecologies is a podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Every episode is an invitation to see the world in a new light — weaving together narrative and interviews with expert knowledge holders.

The format varies: from documentary storytelling to stream-of-consciousness sound collage, and beyond. Episodes are released only when they're ready, not on a fixed schedule (but approximately monthly).

This ad-free, independent podcast is supported by our community on Patreon: https://www.futureecologies.net/patrons

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    Home on the Rangelands: The Beef and the Butterflies (Part 2)

    Home on the Rangelands: The Beef and the Butterflies (Part 2)

    Our series on cows and rangelands continues in the weeds and in the thorns, looking at a specific piece of public land where livestock are being employed to give some endangered species a new lease on life.
    In this 3-part series, we're hearing from impassioned scientists and land managers with diametrically opposed opinions on the concept of "rangelands" — by some estimates, accounting for 50-70% of the earth's surface. Missed Part 1? Catch up here
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    Find credits, citations, a transcript and more at futureecologies.net/listen/fe-5-8-home-on-the-rangelands-part-2
    This ad-free podcast is supported by listeners just like you! Join our Patreon to get early episode releases, bonus content, merch, discord server access, and more. Head to futureecologies.net/join and choose whatever option works best for you.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Home on the Rangelands: Welcome to Cowlifornia (Part 1)

    Home on the Rangelands: Welcome to Cowlifornia (Part 1)

    The introduction of cattle to western North America has undeniably contributed to massive ecosystem change. But could cows be as much a part of the solutions as they are the problem?
    In this 3-part series, we're hearing from all sides of this issue: impassioned scientists and land managers with diametrically opposed opinions on the concept of "rangelands" — by some estimates, accounting for 50-70% of the earth's surface.
    Part 1 kicks things off with a look at the special case of California, and a challenge to the conventional environmentalist perspective that cattle are always a destructive force for biodiversity and ecosystem health.
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    Find credits, citations, a transcript and more at futureecologies.net/listen/fe-5-7-home-on-the-rangelands-part-1
    This ad-free podcast is supported by listeners just like you! Join our Patreon to get early episode releases, bonus content, merch, discord server access, and more. Head to futureecologies.net/join to meet everyone who makes this podcast possible.

    • 53 min
    Welcome to Future Ecologies

    Welcome to Future Ecologies

    Future Ecologies is an independent podcast about the living world and its interrelations. The show varies in format, but this is a taste of what you can expect.
    New to the show? Find our whole back catalogue and subscribe for new episodes — right here in your podcast app, or at futureecologies.net
    Been with us for a while? Send this trailer with someone who shares the planet with you.
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    This ad-free podcast is supported by our listeners on Patreon. Join our community for as little as $1/month for early episode releases, bonus content, merch, discord server access, and more.

    • 1 min
    FE presents: Women's Work

    FE presents: Women's Work

    We’re slowing down for the holidays, and we hope you are too.
    But we didn’t want to leave you without something great to listen to, so we’re borrowing an episode from one of our favourite podcasters: Ashley Ahearn is the independent science and environmental journalist behind several series covering life in the rural American West. If you haven’t already listened to Grouse, on sage grouse, or Mustang (her latest), on wild horses, you’re missing out.
    The episode we picked for you today is kind of a teaser for our own next series. It’s a look at livestock, the regenerative ranching movement, and the women who are leading it.
    From Ashley Ahearn, Boise State Public Radio, and the Mountain West News Bureau, this is Women’s Work, Episode 5: Keep them Doggies Rollin’
    Go find the rest of Women’s Work wherever you get your podcasts. And while you’re at it, go find Grouse and Mustang too.
    You’ll be hearing from us soon. ‘Til next year — happy holidays, and take care.

    • 21 min
    [CONVERSATION] Adam Davis // Mitigation Banking

    [CONVERSATION] Adam Davis // Mitigation Banking

    In this Q&A follow-up to FE5.6, we're digging even deeper into the practice of Mitigation Banking, where ecosystem restoration (and nature itself) may be a profitable investment at scale.

    While that episode was effectively a monologue for storytelling and stylistic reasons, this conversation gets into the weeds of offsetting, how credits are assessed and monitored, land trusts and permanent stewardship easements, intersections with real estate and Indigenous land back, permitting and project impacts, and Adam Davis's philosophy vis-à-vis capitalism.

    And of course, you'll hear from Adam (Huggins) in his professional capacity as a practicing restorationist at the Galiano Conservancy Association.

    Big thanks to everyone who submitted questions! We hope your holidays are peaceful.

    Adam D. provided a few links for further reading:
    - Avery, C. (2023) Draft Prospectus for the First National Nature Assessment. US Dept. of the Interior
    - Cleaver, J. (2023) Tribes place generational wealth in their own hands. Investment News
    EPA (2023) California Creates Rapid Assessment Method for Wetland Protection
    - Prabhakar, A., Revesz, R. (2023) Accounting for Ecosystem Services in Benefit-Cost Analysis. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
    - Rahman, S. et al. (2022) A New National Strategy to Reflect Natural Assets on America’s Balance Sheet. White House Office of Management and Budget

    Below are the mentioned studies critical of mitigation restoration project outcomes and success trajectories (shout out to Yank)
    - Ballantine, K., Schneider, R. (2009) Fifty-Five Years of Soil Development in Restored Freshwater Depressional Wetlands. Ecological Applications. (19) 6, pp. 1467-1480
    - Hill, T. et al (2013) Compensatory Stream and Wetland Mitigation in North Carolina: An Evaluation of Regulatory Success. Environmental Management. 51, pp. 1077–1091 DOI 10.1007/s00267-013-0027-7
    - Hossler, K., Bouchard, V. (2010) Soil development and establishment of carbon-based properties in created freshwater marshes. Ecological Applications, 20(2), pp. 539–553. DOI DOI 10.1890/08-1330.1
    - Robertson, M., Galatowitsch, S., Matthews, J. (2018) Longitudinal evaluation of vegetation richness and cover at wetland compensation sites: implications for regulatory monitoring under the Clean Water Act. Wetlands Ecol Manage, 26, pp. 1089–1105 DOI 10.1007/s11273-018-9633-8
    - Van den Bosch, K., Matthews, J. (2017) An Assessment of Long-Term Compliance with Performance Standards in Compensatory Mitigation Wetlands. Environmental Management, 59:546–556 DOI 10.1007/s00267-016-0804-1
    - Xu, S. et al (2019) Soil organic carbon changes following wetland restoration: A global meta-analysis. Geoderma, 353, pp. 89-96. DOI 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.06.027

    [CONVERSATION] Michael Lun // Peacock jumping spiders

    [CONVERSATION] Michael Lun // Peacock jumping spiders

    In FE5.1 & 5.2 we got to know jumping spiders primarily through a single genus: Habronattus, the paradise jumping spiders. In this bonus conversation with photographer Michael Lun, we discuss the only genus of jumping spiders that can claim to be even more bedazzling: Maratus, the peacock jumping spiders.

    To see Michael's photography (of Western Australia's jumping spiders and much more), head to his website (https://michaellunphotography.com.au/) &/or instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wa_peacock_jumping_spiders/)

    For a photographic index of all currently recognized Maratus species, head to https://www.peacockspider.org/

    To meet a jumping spider in person, check your back yard.

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