NaturallyScott
NaturallyScott
Podcast Description
At least once a week, I’ll bring you the very best of America’s spectacular world of nature — from birds to mammals, to reptiles and amphibians. From soaring mountains to endless plains, from rugged coastlines to rivers and streams. Each episode will feature an expert guest — a ranger, a researcher, a birder, or an adventurer — someone who has seen what we want to see and been where we want to go.
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Covers a variety of topics including birdwatching, marine life, wildlife navigation, and ecology, with episode examples highlighting experiences like maritime adventures with Alaskan wildlife, expert birding tips from renowned authors, and personal stories that inspire conservation and appreciation of nature.
At least once a week, I’ll bring you the very best of America’s spectacular world of nature — from birds to mammals, to reptiles and amphibians. From soaring mountains to endless plains, from rugged coastlines to rivers and streams.
Each episode will feature an expert guest — a ranger, a researcher, a birder, or an adventurer — someone who has seen what we want to see and been where we want to go.
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E80 John Squires – Canada Lynx, Wolverines & a Lifetime in the Wild
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Canada Lynx and wolverines are two of North America’s most elusive mammals. Most of us will never see either one in the wild. John Squires has spent decades following both.
In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with John, a research wildlife biologist with the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station, whose career has taken him deep into the snowy forests and mountains of the American West.
John’s path actually began with birds of prey. As a seventh grader obsessed with raptors, he called the Colorado Falconry Club and soon found himself following a goshawk through the scrub oak outside Denver. That fascination with wildlife eventually led to a career studying some of the most secretive predators in North America. john-scott (1)
In this episode:
🐈 How John helped launch a decades-long study of Canada Lynx
❄️ Why enormous paws make lynx perfectly adapted for deep snow
🐇 The extraordinary relationship between lynx and Snowshoe Hares
🐾 Finding 23 sets of lynx tracks on the first day of a new research project
📡 What scientists have learned from tracking and collaring more than 250 lynx
😳 Coming face-to-face with an angry mother lynx while holding her kitten
🏔️ Why mountain lions sometimes kill lynx—but don’t eat them
🐾 How long wild lynx can live and how much territory they need
💪 Why wolverines require territories several times larger than lynx
🦴 How wolverines find carrion buried beneath deep snow—and crush bones other predators can’t
📈 Why John is now seeing encouraging signs for wolverines in the Northern Rockies
John has spent nearly 30 years studying Canada Lynx, and what began with those first tracks has grown into a research program involving hundreds of animals and an extraordinary body of knowledge about how lynx survive at the southern edge of their range. john-scott (1)
It’s a conversation about science, fieldwork, predators, deep snow—and what we can learn by spending a lifetime following animals most people will never even glimpse.
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