Teacher Anne Markham Bailey offers a guided practice for working with anxiety through awareness of our breath and body.

As the series draws to a close, host and producer Anne Markham Bailey offer on the Bankhead Movement, and Terra Manasco names the five persons who have passed away prior to the series interviews.

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.

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.

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.

Ruth Manasco at home in her kitchen on Clear Creek The Big Tree The Big Tree, a tulip poplar in the Bankhead National Forest Women of the Sipsey

Janice Barrett of Wild South’s Alabama office introduces the context of the Present Tense Media series, “The Fight For Alabama’s Last Wild Places”. Janice Barrett of Wild South and Present Tense Executive Producer Anne Markham Bailey in the Bankhead National Forest.

Anne Markham Bailey, producer and host of Present Tense is joined by Janice Barrett of Wild South, in interviews with 13 of the key warriors who joined together to form a movement to stop the toxic management practices of the US Forest Service that were prevalent through the early 1990’s in the Bankhead National Forest. We hear how each of the warriors played a key role in the process of changing hearts and minds, including grassroots resistance and spiritual practice. Each interview is an...

Featuring Terra Manasco, Greg Preston, Dr. Charles Borden and Chief Grey Fox. Listen to the voices of the citizen eco-warriors who joined together to save Alabama's last wild places.

We hear the voices of the citizen warriors who created a movement to save Alabama's last wild places