Solo Elk Huntress w/ Christie Green

Solo Elk Huntress w/ Christie Green

From Reskillience by Catie Payne

February 22, 2026 · 1h 10m · Episode 67

About this episode

Christie Green shares her transformative journey of solo elk hunting and its deeper implications on womanhood and creativity.

Christie Green [https://www.christiegreen.net/] spends days at a time in the mountains, in the snow, tracking elk, solo. Her hunting journey began at 40 as a practical way to feed herself and her family, and became a fierce and fluid exploration of womanhood, motherhood, stewardship, intuition, listening and kinship. Christie wrote a memoir about her experiences called Moonlight Elk that I rapturously devoured, licking my fingertips with every turn of the page, it is that delicious. 🦌 Terrain covered: Life in Sante Fe, New Mexico Hunting as a deep and embodied exploration of just about everything. Listening to other than human perspectives as a landscape architect Designing for soil, water, animal, pollination; landscapes in service of wild nature Learning to hunt at 40 Weaving values into business How to catch dreams Why would you want to hunt alone? Being an "other-centred" person Following desire and intuition The extreme paradox of loving and killing Defying categories and boxes Are there better and worse ways to hunt? Could and should everyone hunt? Communal local food relationships Walking in fear as a woman, as prey Dreams as soul expression Writing sex scenes that…

People in this episode

Host: Catie Payne

Guest: Christie Green

Topics covered

  • hunting
  • womanhood
  • motherhood
  • intuition
  • landscape architecture
  • food relationships
  • creativity

Keywords

  • elk hunting
  • womanhood
  • intuition
  • landscape architecture
  • Moonlight Elk
  • food relationships
  • creativity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Moonlight Elk

Places: Sante Fe, New Mexico

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