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Boundary Waters - Dadcast Edition
May 1, 2026
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HOGS
Apr 21, 2026
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Vector-Borne Diseases in the Napoleonic Era with Michael Skvarla
Apr 7, 2026
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The "Fix Our Forests" Act
Mar 23, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/1/26 | Boundary Waters - Dadcast Edition | In this episode Calvin and John (and John's son) discuss the recent plan to open up the boundary waters wilderness to mining interests. AJ is taking some time off from podcasting and work in order to work more.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | HOGS | On this belated holiday (hogiday?) episode we have a good friend of the podcast and environmental historian Marissa on to discuss hogs and their various crimes against medieval villages and the ecology of North America.Calvin is still beset by audio gremlins and John's audio also decides to take a nap 2/3 of the way through. Apologies all around.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 4/7/26 | Vector-Borne Diseases in the Napoleonic Era with Michael Skvarla | In this episode we have a guest! A professional knower of facts about bugs! We are joined by Michael Skvarla, one of the co-hosts of Arthro-Pod to learn about vector-borne diseases!Buckle in to learn how these diseases shaped history during the Napoleonic era and also finally get an answer to the age-old question "Is shrimp bugs?"Apologies for Calvin's audio, he continues to be attacked by technical difficulty gremlins.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 3/23/26 | The "Fix Our Forests" Act | This episode is a little different from our usual ones. We do a "quick" read-through and critique of a pending piece of legislation known as the "Fix Our Forests" act. As of the release of this episode, the House version has been passed, inked up (mostly in good ways), and is on the Senate calendar for consideration.Link to the Senate version: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1462Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 3/9/26 | Fire! Lighting and Fighting! Part 3 of 3 | In our third part, we talk about the nuts and bolts of how we conduct prescribed fires, and a bit on how we fight wildfires.Apologies for Calvin's audio, he continues to be attacked by technical difficulty gremlins.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 2/23/26 | Fire! Longleaf and Prescribed Fire! Part 2 of 3 | In our second part, we get into the specifics of fire ecology as it relates to one of my favorite trees, that's right. It's the tree with an awkward teenager phase, the longleaf pine. We also talk about prescribed fire, and why we do it.Apologies for Calvin's audio, he continues to be attacked by technical difficulty gremlins.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | Fire! Fire Ecology! Part 1 of 3 | Starting off our three-parter on fire and fire ecology, we talk about how fire and ecology interact to give us the super interesting field of fire ecology, and how plants and animals are (and are not!) adapted to fire.Apologies for Calvin's audio, he was attacked by technical difficulty gremlins.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | Redwoods and why they're super neat! | In this episode we talk about redwoods and why they're a really cool fire-adapted tree that are also extremely vulnerable to climate change.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 |  Argentine Ants with Thomas O'Mahony | On this episode we have a very special guest, podcaster and producer Thomas O'Mahony to talk about an underappreciated global menace. No, it's not Subway, fentanyl, or the resurgence of fascism. It's the Argentine ant!Tom is co-host of Lions Led By Donkeys, Beneath the Skin and his newest podcast is Blood Work.Episode thumbnail taken from this 2009 BBC article about squirrels. Thanks BBC!Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | Walter Bitterlich | In the next episode of the "founding fathers of forestry" semi-sorta-series, we talk about the most enthusiastic Nazi forester you've never heard of: Walter Bitterlich. He sucks.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
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| 11/25/25 | Carl Schenck and the rise of American forestry as a profession | In our first episode on the founding fathers of American forestry we cover Carl Schenck. A forgotten German forester who proposed an alternative vision of American forestry focused on private ownership rather than the state. Which vision wins out? Do the boys get called out by a German from 200 years in the past? Is Gifford Pinchot a petty bitch? Tune in to find out!Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | Chronic Wasting Disease: Friend or Foe? (It's foe, it's all foe) | In this episode we talk about everyone's favorite cervid prion disease, CWD! We cover what prions and prion diseases are, a bit of the history of CWD, various strategies that have been employed in combating it, and why we're all doomed! Yay!Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 10/25/25 | The North American Model of Wildlife Management - Part 3 of 3 | In our first accidentally-a-series, we explore the North American model of wildlife management: what it is, the history of how it came to be, and how it works (and sometimes doesn't work)! Part 3 of 3.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 10/9/25 | The North American Model of Wildlife Management - Part 2 of 3 | In our first accidentally-a-series, we explore the North American model of wildlife management: what it is, the history of how it came to be, and how it works (and sometimes doesn't work)! Part 2 of 3.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 9/25/25 | The North American Model of Wildlife Management - Part 1 of 3 | In our first accidentally-a-series, we explore the North American model of wildlife management: what it is, the history of how it came to be, and how it works (and sometimes doesn't work)! Part 1 of 3.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 9/9/25 | Invasive Species! What they are, and why they suck. | In this episode, we talk about the bane of natural resources managers everywhere: invasive species. We cover the definition of an invasive species, what makes them so good at invading, and broadly how to treat them. There's also a fair amount of ranting and even a little bit of despair! But hey, it's not all bad. Invasive species mean job security for folks like us!Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 8/27/25 | What is a forest? | In our first "real" episode, we're going to try to answer a surprisingly complicated question: what is a forest? We'll talk about ecological versus legal definitions of "forest," some of the intricacies of different types of forests, and try our hardest to avoid getting derailed with varying levels of success.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.comTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
| 8/12/25 | SeedPod - A Podcast About the Natural World | SeedPod is a podcast about the natural world. We are two foresters and a wildlife biologist, trying to make sense of all things natural resources for the masses. We'll cover topics as broad as "What is a forest?" and as specific as "Here's the history of Some Guy You've Never Heard Of" because we think it's interesting, and you should too.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us a message at seedpod.pod@gmail.com*new version of audio uploaded 8/15 with some audio glitches fixedTheme song: Matt's Blue's - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | — | ||||||
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