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My Life, Wildlife is a new podcast where you’ll meet the passionate, talented people who have dedicated their lives to caring for the wildlife and wild places of Alaska. Tune in to hear how these scientists, conservationists, and adventurers spend their days and how they came to live and work in a place like no other. Through their stories, you’ll visit some of the most amazing places in the world – giant mountains, wild rivers, icy seas, and the stunning beauty of the high arctic – and you’ll meet extraordinary wildlife from birds to bears, fish to frogs to foxes, walruses to whales, and everything in between. Brought to you by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region. New episodes every Thursday beginning on Earth Day, April 22, 2021.

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Check latest episodes from My Life, Wildlife podcast

Kara Hilwig

2022/04/07

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pilot/Biologist Kara Hilwig tells us about her time flying for National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska and the great experiences she gets to live through in her day to day job.

Amee Howard

2022/03/10

Listen as Deputy Assistant Regional Director for the Office of Subsistence Management, Amee Howard tells us about her family roots and how her journey has lead her across the lower 48, eventually leading back to Alaska.

Erika Merced-Teofrio

2022/02/17

Erika Merced-Teofrio tells us about the continuation of her service, from helping provide air and missile defense to our nation's allies to now serving as the Marine Mammals Management, Administrative Assistant for the Alaska Region.

Andrea Medeiros

2022/02/16

Andrea Medeiros tells us about her path from cooking professionally on the East Coast to serving as the Alaska Region's Public Affairs Officer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Bob Rebarchik

2022/02/03

From a wilderness ranger to a fire management officer to a refuge manager, Bob Rebarchik reflects on his career journey to the northwestern Alaska refuges he calls home.

Karin Bodony

2022/01/27

Listen to ecologist Karin Bodony speak about her love for rural Alaska, glacial sand dunes, yellow-cheeked voles, and sled dogs - and what she has learned from the people and places of Koyukuk, Nowitna, and Innoko National Wildlife Refuges.

Timothy Lorenzini

2022/01/13

Tim Lorenzini came to Alaska to teach school in Galena. Follow his career to becoming a supervisory Park Ranger at Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge and hear more about his favorite river (the Yukon) and why Tetlin is nicknamed the Land of Great Migrations.

Benjamin Weitzman

2022/01/06

Listen as Wildlife Biologist Benjamin Weitzman tells us about the journey to his position with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and learn a thing or two about Alaska's smallest marine mammal— the sea otter.

Mimi Thomas

2021/12/02

Mimi Thomas grew up along the Yukon River and has spent her career with Fish and Wildlife Service as a park ranger and law enforcement officer at Kenai and Yukon Flats refuges.

Randall Friendly

2021/11/18

Randall Friendly grew up in the village of Tuntutuliak along the Kuskokwim River. He is a graduate student studying the threatened spectacled eider in Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.

Paul Leonard

2021/11/04

Listen to Paul Leonard share what he loves about living and working in Alaska as the supervisory ecologist at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He grew up in the rolling hills of Kentucky, fascinated with the frogs and insects of nearby streams. Paul came to Alaska as a college student and the experience changed his life.

Bill Leacock

2021/10/28

Bill Leacock knew even as a young child that he was interested in bears and being outside. Follow his career from southeast Asia to Siberia to Alaska, where he has worked as a bear biologist at Kodiak Refuge and is now the mammal biologist at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.