Howl

We're bringing you a special episode from our friends at Terra Firma, a podcast from Colorado Public Radio. Like Howl, Terra Firma takes listeners deep into the outdoors through immersive storytelling and unforgettable natural sound.In this episode, "Healing a Wounded Wilderness," you'll travel to Idaho, where host CMarie Fuhrman sits among the wildflowers near the South Fork Salmon River, on a trail thousands of years old, and watches a tractor cover a 50-year-old logging road.This special presentation is part of the American Storytelling Collection, a collaboration from the NPR Network featuring some of public media's best narrative podcasts. This month, the collection celebrates stories of wilderness and the great outdoors.After you listen, search for the American Storytelling Collection in the NPR App or on Apple Podcasts to discover even more great outdoor stories from across the NPR Network.

Wolves represent perhaps nature’s greatest comeback. Exterminated from the West before the middle of the 20th century, they now roam nine Western states. But some scientists say wolves might be in trouble again and that key states may be inflating the number of wolves through faulty science.

Heath and Clark get lost backpacking in Yellowstone National Park on the trail of wolves with Doug Smith, one of the top wolf experts in the world. Along the way, Smith shows listeners how the return of wolves has changed the iconic park’s landscape.A transcript of this podcast episode is available.

Heath and Clark take listeners back 30 years to get the history of wolf reintroduction from the people who put the predators back on the Western landscape. It’s a wild story of gunshots, death threats, frostbite and close encounters with canis lupis.A transcript of this episode is available.