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The Damning Silence (Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado)
All night, camped near a mountain stream, CMarie lies awake listening for the sound of wolves.
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Welcome Back to Terra Firma
Season 2 offers a chance for us to see the ways in which nature allows our wildness.
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Greeting a New Decade (Comb Ridge, Utah)
At sunset on the eve of her 50th birthday, CMarie hikes up a slickrock ridge with her dog Carhartt.
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The Eyes of Ancestors (Payette National Forest, Idaho)
Leaning against a ponderosa on a ridgeline, CMarie watches a storm roll in.
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Snowy Starry Horse Ride (Collegiate Peaks, Colorado)
Late at night, after a long day of emails and meetings, CMarie rides her horse into a frozen meadow under snowcapped peaks.
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A Silvery Cold (Rawah Wilderness, Colorado)
CMarie listens to the wind over the lichens and reflects on the word “rawah,” which her ancestors, the Ute, spoke: “wild place.”
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Miracles Everywhere (Payette River, Idaho)
Returning to the river to witness the annual kokanee salmon migration, CMarie starts to see the seasonal red of the fish everywhere.
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Robin’s Home Song (Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado)
In the birthplace of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, CMarie remembers an early-morning robin song from her childhood.
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Healing a Wounded Wilderness (Payette National Forest, Idaho)
On a trail thousands of years old, CMarie sits among the wildflowers near the South Fork Salmon River and watches a tractor cover a fifty-year-old logging road
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Elk Song (Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado)
On a late afternoon in autumn, when the sun bends the shadows and gives a gold tip to the crowns of Doug fir and lodgepole, CMarie Fuhrman walks into the forest with her cello.
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Welcome to Terra Firma
Terra Firma is a new podcast that combines writing about nature with the sounds of the outdoors.
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