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  • Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 23: A Forest Service Employee's Tribal Connection

    Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 23: A Forest Service Employee's Tribal Connection
    Jan 13 2026
    In this episode, we focus on a former Forest Service employee with the Modoc National Forest, his career, his connection with the Choctaw tribes, and his chance of a lifetime to work with Bison and the Modoc Nation.
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    53 min
  • Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 22: Bats

    Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 22: Bats
    Jan 13 2026
    In this episode, Ted Weller, an ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, helps us go batty for bats. Each year, Bat Week is observed the week before Halloween and is used by bat enthusiasts, scientists, conservation groups and others to educate the public, dispel myths and bring attention to the struggles they face. The beneficial impact these amazing creatures have on our ecosystem should be celebrated far beyond the season of spooky ghosts, skeletons and vampires.
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    1 h et 2 min
  • Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 22: Employee Spotlight: Hydrologist, Stewardship Coordinators

    Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 22: Employee Spotlight: Hydrologist, Stewardship Coordinators
    Jan 13 2026
    In this episode, we focus on three employees and talk about their childhood, how they got involved in the Forest Service and more. So join us in welcoming a hydrologist, a shared stewardship coordinator, and the acting National Forest Stewardship Program manager in Incorporative Forestry.
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    48 min
  • Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 21: Nature's Benefits 101—Part 2

    Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 21: Nature's Benefits 101—Part 2
    Jan 13 2026
    We learned in Episode 19 about Ecosystem Services or Nature's Benefits in an introduction-type show. This show, we dive back in with Part 2 of that series with our first forest benefit spotlight shining on - Water. A research associate with the Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center joins us to talk about this critical need.
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    20 min
  • Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 16: NEPA's 50th Anniversary

    Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 16: NEPA's 50th Anniversary
    Dec 12 2025
    In this episode of Forest Focus, Steve Dunsky, a videographer and historian of the Forest Service for more than 30 years, speaks with Char Miller about the 50th anniversary of NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act. Char Miller is Director of the Environmental Analysis Program and W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Dr. Miller is the author of many books, articles and blog posts on environmental history and politics. He has consulted on, and appeared in many documentaries including The Greatest Good, a history of the U.S. Forest Service.
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    1 h et 2 min
  • Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 18: National Greening Fire Team - Recycling at Fire Incidents

    Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 18: National Greening Fire Team - Recycling at Fire Incidents
    Nov 18 2025
    The focus of this episode is recycling. What happens when a large wildfire requires the creation of a fire camp or incident command post, where hundreds or even thousands of personnel support the firefighting effort? The amount of trash that accumulates could match that of a small town. We speak with the National Greening Fire Team, ambassadors, and recycling vendors who work to lessen this environmental impact.
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    22 min
  • Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 17: Pack Stock Center of Excellence

    Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 17: Pack Stock Center of Excellence
    Nov 18 2025
    In this episode of Forest Focus, we explore backcountry and wilderness packing with the Pacific Southwest Region's Pack Stock Center of Excellence. Have a listen to a tradition, one covered in over a hundred years of trail dust, that is still critical and relevant today in supporting fire management, ecosystems and forest management.
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    26 min
  • Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 19: Nature's Benefits 101—Part 1

    Forest Focus Podcast — Episode 19: Nature's Benefits 101—Part 1
    Nov 18 2025
    Millions of us understand what the benefit of being outdoors has on our mind, body and spirit. But what other benefits does the natural world provide on your national forests? Well, this episode we explore how nature benefits our daily lives with an introduction into ecosystem services, otherwise known as nature's benefits.
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    12 min