Twenty years ago this week, New Hampshire Audubon, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and NHPR took our first tentative steps on a journey that would take listeners on weekly outdoor adventures all over the state. Something Wild’s very first episode featured host, Rosemary Conroy, then with SPNHF, encouraging us to go outside and look and listen for the early signs of spring. In the intervening decades, we’ve covered a lot of ground; whether it was Rosemary walking through the finer details of forest succession… ...or co-host Iain MacLeod, then with NH Audubon, exposing us to birds’s winter survival strategies… McLeod recently remembered the guiding principles that helped to shape Something Wild in those early days. "We were very much focusing on the wildlife and natural history of New Hampshire. What was in people’s backyards and what they could see if they took a hike, and really raising awareness about that. I think we achieved that." And to those guiding
Twenty years ago this week, New Hampshire Audubon, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and NHPR took our first tentative steps on a journey that would take listeners on weekly outdoor adventures all over the state. Something Wild’s very first episode featured host, Rosemary Conroy, then with SPNHF, encouraging us to go outside and look and listen for the early signs of spring. In the intervening decades, we’ve covered a lot of ground; whether it was Rosemary walking through