A deep dive into Canada’s approach to forest management. How does it work? What are the issues? What needs to change in order to meet our climate and biodiversity commitments? Hear from the experts in the line of fire, working to protect one of the country’s most valuable ecosystems. Show your support with a monthly subscription: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2249817/support Stand taller with a monthly donation or a generous one-time gift and receive a receipt for your taxes: https://donorbox.org/wlpodcast Live outside Canada and want to support the show? Contact us: info@wildlandsleague.org. Wildlands League is a Canadian conservation not-for-profit charity. Our registered charity number is 11878 2317 RR0001
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Signup to Generate a PitchA deep dive into Canada’s approach to forest management. How does it work? What are the issues? What needs to change in order to meet our climate and biodiversity commitments? Hear from the experts in the line of fire, working to protect one of the country’s most valuable ecosystems.
The Clear Cut is hosted by Wildlands League. The show has published 41 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Story Behind Canada’s First National Urban Park" (13 August 2026, 55 minutes), "The Ring of Fire: What’s Really Happening in Northern Ontario?" (27 April 2026, 48 minutes), and "The Clear Cut - Looking Back (& Farewell Kaya 🥹)" (21 November 2024, 49 minutes).
The Clear Cut publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 41 episodes.
Booking probability for The Clear Cut is 40%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Clear Cut requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Clear Cut's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Clear Cut are Forestry Services and Logging. The Clear Cut has an education audience.
Wildlands League hosts The Clear Cut, an education show with 41 episodes published.
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Rouge National Urban Park is Canada’s first national urban park—but its story is far from over. In this episode, Jan and Dave take listeners behind the scenes of the decades-long effort to protect one of Canada’s most...
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After a season break, The Clearcut is back with a new mini series: Playing with Fire. Hosted by Jan Sumner, this series takes a closer look at Ontario’s Ring of Fire and the growing questions surrounding mining...
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Join Jan Sumner and Kaya Adleman for this special episode as they look back on all they've unpacked on the Clear Cut. It's a bittersweet one as this is Kaya's last time as co-host before the show goes on hiatus. Topics...
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We return this week to our conversation with Executive Director Katie Morrison and Conservation Science & Programs Manager Josh Killeen of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s (CPAWS) Southern Alberta Chapter...
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Did you know that the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta are home to incredibly valuable ecological landscapes? Sometimes called the current of the continent, three major river basins extend from this area...
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Last year the European Union issued a new regulation ( the EUDR ) aimed at preventing the entry of products that originate from recently deforested land or have contributed to forest degradation into the EU marketplace...
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This week we return to our conversation with the City of Toronto’s Director of Urban Forestry, Kim Statham. Last episode we talked about some of the challenges and opportunities facing Toronto’s urban forest, but this...
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When we think of forest management and forestry, we often conjure up images of large swaths of untouched land with trees that span for kilometres on end. But did you know that forest management can play an important...
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We return this week with journalist Joan Baxter, who dives deeper into her work for the Deforestation Inc. investigative series that showcases reporting from 300 journalists worldwide. Joan shares with us her findings...
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It’s been almost a year since Canada’s Online News Act was passed, and in response Meta blocked links to Canadian news on Facebook and Instagram. This has created a void of fact checked articles that meet journalistic...
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This week we return to our conversation with fire ecologist Jen Baron from the University of British Columbia. In our last episode, we explored the main causes of the severe wildfires we've been experiencing in recent...
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Last summer was a record-breaking wildfire season for Canada. As smoke blanketed major Canadian cities and even portions of the East Coast and Midwest of the United States, media coverage soared. This year, wildfire...
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We return to our conversation with Rachel Plotkin from the David Suzuki Foundation and Dr. Julee Boan from Natural Resources Defense Council. This week we’re talking caribou and the economics of forestry. Boreal caribou...
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Every year the federal government publishes a ‘State of the Forest’ report which, touts itself as “a trusted and authoritative source of comprehensive information on the social, economic and environmental state of...
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We return this week with our own Senior Forest Conservation Manager, Dave Pearce, to cover the wider implications of Wildlands’ Logging Scars report. In our last episode we learned that Wildlands League’s study showed...
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What happens to the areas of Canada’s forests that have been impacted by full-tree harvesting? According to international rules the term ‘deforestation’ only occurs when a forest is converted into another land use, like...
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In part 2 of our conversation with Conservation North, Michelle Connolly gives us a lesson in forest ecology and forestry semantics. How does British Columbia and the forestry industry use seemingly ‘green’ language to...
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If natural forests are ‘self-willed, self-managing, and self-replacing’ to respond and adapt to disturbances like fire and pest-outbreaks, should we be logging more as some suggest? Or should our approach be more...
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This week, we return to our conversation with Richard Robertson and Tegan Hansen from STAND.Earth on forestry issues in British Columbia. Wood pellets, or biomass fuels, from B.C.’s forests are being touted as a...
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We’re in beautiful British Columbia this week with STAND.Earth’s Richard Robertson and Tegan Hansen talking forestry on Canada’s west coast. In the first of two episodes, we talk to our guests about STAND’s forest...
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