An interview with Kwoya Fagin Maples

An interview with entrepreneur, bicycle advocate, and artist Ester Song.

An interview with Joan Maloof, Professor Emeritus at Salisbury University, author of Teaching the Trees and others, Forest Advocate, visionary, and founder of the Old-Growth Forest Network. She talks about why forests matter, the goals of the OGFN and what each of us can do to protect our planet.

This 17-minute guided awareness practice led by writer Anne Markham Bailey explores the space around us and within us to support well-being.

A guided awareness practice with Anne Markham Bailey.

As the series draws to a close, host and producer Anne Markham Bailey offers a summary of the Bankhead Movement. Terra Manasco names six warriors who have passed away prior to the series interviews. To see photos, documents and to learn more, go to www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast To learn more about Wild South, go to www.wildsouth.org To contact us with stories from the Bankhead Movement: hello@greenbucketpress.com

Janice Barrett of Wild South, protector of forests and all things wild, talks about how she came to wilderness advocacy, the power of the wild and her work as an artist. To learn more and to see Janice Barrett's paintings, go to http://www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast To learn more about Wild South, go to www.wildsouth.org

Chief Billy Grayfox Shaw talks with Present Tense about his Cherokee heritage, rooted in the Bankhead National Forest and his role in the Bankhead Movement. To learn more: www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

Vince Meleski, former Program Director of Wild Alabama talks about the process of working on the restoration of the Bankhead National Forest, and the challenges that remain.

Larry Smith talks about his role in the Bankhead Monitor, and his understanding of the Bankhead National Forest and the wild. To learn more: www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

An interview with artist and conservationist Terra Manasco whose work with the Bankhead Movement continues to focus on the power of the wild in our lives.

In conversation with photographer Charles Seifried, whose images of the Bankhead National Forest inspired the hearts and opened the purse strings of supporters of the Bankhead Movement. Learn more about Charlie and see some of his photos at: www.greenbucketpress.com/present-tense-podcast

We're in conversation with Greg Preston, a founder of the Bankhead Movement and the Bankhead Monitor newsletter that became WIld Alabama, now Wild South.

We go deep with Bob Crow regarding the Bankhead National Forest, her role in the movement to change US Forest Service policy and her connection to the Great Spirit Mother and to the wild.

Dr. Charles Borden talks about the power of the wilderness, our place in the universe and his role in the fight for the Sipsey Wilderness designation and the Bankhead National Forest movement.

We hear from author, historian, conservationist and Echota Cherokee Rickey Butch Walker whose love for the Warrior Mountains called him to work to form a movement to save the Bankhead National Forest.