Threshold

Auricle Productions
  • 4.8 (443)
  • Documentary
  • Semimonthly Series

Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the natural world. Each season, we take listeners on a journey into the heart of a complex environmental story, asking how we got here and where we might be headed. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced.

  1. 01/27/2017

    Oh, Give Me A Home | Preview

    Each season, Threshold explores one story from the natural world, and what it says about us. Season one focuses on the American bison. When you start out talking about bison, you end up talking about America. Wherever you are in the U.S., bison used to live there too. How did that change so drastically, so quickly? Can the U.S. ever have wild, free-roaming bison again? Should we? Threshold podcast dives deep into the history of the American bison to understand who we are, where we've been, and where we're going.

    6 min

  2. 02/02/2017

    Oh, Give Me a Home | 1 | For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People

    Yellowstone National Park is where we saved the American bison from extinction. But each year, we slaughter hundreds of animals from this prized herd. Why? Learn more on this episode of Threshold.

    28 min

  3. 02/09/2017

    Oh, Give Me a Home | 2 | "The Red Man Was Pressed"

    How did we go from more than 50 million wild bison to just 23 free-roaming animals? And how does the decimation of the herds relate to the oppression of Native Americans? Find out on this episode of Threshold. Each season, Threshold podcast explores one story from the natural world, and what it says about us. Season one focuses on the American bison. Dig into the history of the American bison, from their arrival in North America, to current controversies surrounding their management today.

    29 min

  4. 02/13/2017

    Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 1 | Snow

    Amy goes off-trail in the Yellowstone snow and discovers how hard it is to be a bison.

    4 min

  5. 02/14/2017

    Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 2 | Bindu

    A Yellowstone visitor tries to explain how it feels to watch the country's largest wild bison herd grazing in the Lamar Valley.

    3 min

  6. 02/16/2017

    Oh, Give Me a Home | 3 | Born Free

    Many cattle ranchers view wild bison as a threat to their livelihoods. But some think cattle and bison can coexist. On episode three of Threshold, you'll meet two cattle ranchers with different perspectives on wild bison — and, we'll take you on a controversial bison hunt.

    29 min

  7. 02/18/2017

    Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 3 | Superintendent Wenk

    Yellowstone Park Superintendent Dan Wenk gives his take on the bison conundrum.

    6 min

  8. 02/21/2017

    Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 4 | Out of Africa

    Humans first encountered bison more than 75,000 years ago, as we migrated north out of Africa. We retrace that journey across Europe and Asia, and into the Americas.

    20 min
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Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the natural world. Each season, we take listeners on a journey into the heart of a complex environmental story, asking how we got here and where we might be headed. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced.

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  • Creator
    Auricle Productions
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    141
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2018
  • Show Website
    Threshold

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