36 episodes

Headwaters is a show about how Glacier National Park is connected to everything else.

Headwaters Glacier National Park - National Park Service

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    • 4.9 • 371 Ratings

Headwaters is a show about how Glacier National Park is connected to everything else.

    Climate Interpretation with Diane Sine

    Climate Interpretation with Diane Sine

    A conversation with longtime interpretive ranger Diane Sine about a lifetime of watching change in Glacier. This episode was recorded in May of 2023.

    Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters
    Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/
    Stella Nall art: https://www.instagram.com/stella.nall/

    Overview of the park’s glaciers: https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/nature/glaciersoverview.htm

    • 52 min
    Climate and Community with Mike Durglo, Jr.

    Climate and Community with Mike Durglo, Jr.

    A conversation with Mike Durglo, Jr., climate coordinator and head of Historic Preservation for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. This episode was recorded in September of 2023.

    Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters
    Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/
    Stella Nall art: https://www.instagram.com/stella.nall/

    CSKT Climate Resiliency: http://csktclimate.org/

    • 31 min
    A Growly Bear and the Invention of Bear Spray

    A Growly Bear and the Invention of Bear Spray

    Bear spray saves lives, but where does it come from? We follow a Glacier grizzly to learn the story.

    Learn how to use bear spray, in the St. Mary episode of Season One: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/confluence-st-mary/id1542669779?i=1000501502018

    Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sasnett

    Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters
    Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/
    Stella Nall art: https://www.instagram.com/stella.nall

    • 35 min
    Can Ranger Traditions Survive into the Future?

    Can Ranger Traditions Survive into the Future?

    We meet a ranger who lives in one of the wildest corners of Glacier—a place where age-old tools and skills are still practiced daily. But do traditional skills, or this way of life, still have a place in a rapidly-evolving world?

    Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sasnett.

    Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters
    Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/
    Stella Nall art: https://www.instagram.com/stella.nall/

    • 29 min
    Living Seasonally: Advice from a Lifelong Ranger

    Living Seasonally: Advice from a Lifelong Ranger

    We sit down with Chuck Cameron, a lifelong Glacier Ranger, to learn about his incredible and unusual career.

    Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sasnett.

    Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters
    Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/
    Stella Nall art: https://www.instagram.com/stella.nall/

    • 33 min
    Surviving a Near-Death Fall in a National Park

    Surviving a Near-Death Fall in a National Park

    Morgan Bell spent 10 seasons working on Glacier’s trail crews—one of the toughest and most demanding jobs in the park. Until a single day—a single step—changed everything.

    Headwaters is created by Daniel Lombardi, Michael Faist, Gaby Eseverri, and Peri Sasnett.

    Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters
    Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/
    Stella Nall art: https://www.instagram.com/stella.nall/

    • 31 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
371 Ratings

371 Ratings

tartme ,

My favorite

I look forward to the new season of this podcast every year. I have listened to every single episode Thank you.

Whitefish traveler ,

Wealth of information

I absolutely am addicted to this podcast. I started with season 1 just 2 weeks ago. Each episode is very well done and I learn something each time . I have shared it with several other GNP lovers.

Now Unsubscribed ,

After the White Pine…Let’s get WOKE

The information and passion that showed through the White Pine season is lost on the rest of this podcast in season 3 particularly. It’s revisionist history of Lewis and Clark is shameful and heavily slanted towards an anti-capitalist ideal, emotionally based re-telling and insulting to the brave men and women who came across the land from the East. Many of those interviewed actually work for government agencies while spouting anti-American sentiments. Could have been as stunning as Glacier itself but yikes…real disappointment in a “nature” podcast.

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