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Cultivating Place: The Klamath Mountains, A Natural History, Michael Kauffman & Justin Garwood

Photos courtesy of Backcountry Press, with photographer credits in image titles. All rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Backcountry Press, with photographer credits in image titles. All rights reserved.

This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023 by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region and the importance of knowing any place better from multiple perspectives for the most effective and durable conservation to be truly possible. 

We’re in conversation with Michael Kauffman, research plant ecologist, educator, and founder with his botanist wife Allison of the ecologically focused Backcountry Press, and Justin Garwood, Environmental Scientist for the California Dept. of Fish and wildlife with a focus on fisheries.

Photos courtesy of Backcountry Press, with photographer credits in image titles. All rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Backcountry Press, with photographer credits in image titles. All rights reserved.

Michael and Justin have spent the better part of the last decade curating and editing a cohort of 34 expert contributors to a new and really the first comprehensive Natural History of the Klamath Mountains, one of the most biodiverse temperate mountain ranges on earth. Listen in!

Photos courtesy of Backcountry Press, with photographer credits in image titles. All rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Backcountry Press, with photographer credits in image titles. All rights reserved.

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Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.