Terra Firma

Colorado Public Radio

Terra Firma is a podcast about the outdoors, the sounds of the natural world and our place in it. Each episode runs about 5-10 minutes and pairs reflections on nature with gorgeous soundscapes captured in wild places.

Terra Firma unites stories and musings by CMarie Fuhrman, a Colorado-born, Indigenous poet and writer, with audio captured by outdoor sound recordist Jacob Job.

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S2 · E11
June 11 · 30 min
Feed Swap: Introducing Howl, from Boise State Public Radio and The Idaho Capital Sun
Howl tracks the dramatic, controversial return of wolves to the Rockies
S2 · E10
June 9 · 1 min
From the NPR Network: The American Storytelling collection explores the great outdoors
Terra Firma featured in a new curated podcast collection
S2 · E9
Apr 10, 2024 · 9 min
This Bend in the River (Gunnison River, Colorado)
CMarie visits a river that brings things, and the river carries things away.
S2 · E8
Apr 3, 2024 · 10 min
Carhartt Creek (Payette National Forest, Idaho)
CMarie and her 17-year-old dog, Carhartt, camp together for the last time.
S2 · E7
Mar 27, 2024 · 7 min
Autumn Road (A forgotten Forest Service road in Idaho)
Hiking up a forgotten Forest Service road, CMarie stumbles upon a strange discovery that causes her to reflect on grace.
S2 · E6
Mar 20, 2024 · 7 min
The Sandhills (Bear Valley, Idaho)
CMarie wonders what sandhill cranes would make of her, if they wrote poetry.
S2 · E5
Mar 13, 2024 · 6 min
The Dark (Masonville, Colorado)
CMarie lies on the lawn of the house she grew up in, and considers the stars.
S2 · E4
Mar 6, 2024 · 8 min
Sounds of Mountain Water (Powderhorn Wilderness, Colorado)
High in a mountain meadow, CMarie wonders what the world would be like if we could make more space for the simplest of sounds.
S2 · E3
Feb 28, 2024 · 8 min
Beauty in the Burn (Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado)
CMarie finds a recent ruin beautiful. And she wonders if maybe fire has something to teach us about beauty.
S2 · E2
Feb 21, 2024 · 7 min
The Human Element (Near Payette Lake, Idaho)
On a bright morning at her mountain cabin, CMarie greets each of the beings around her, and considers her own species' place among this citizenry.
S2 · E1
Feb 14, 2024 · 6 min
The Damning Silence (Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado)
All night, camped near a mountain stream, CMarie lies awake listening for the sound of wolves.
Jan 31, 2024 · 2 min
Welcome Back to Terra Firma
Season 2 offers a chance for us to see the ways in which nature allows our wildness.
S1 · E9
Mar 15, 2023 · 8 min
Greeting a New Decade (Comb Ridge, Utah)
At sunset on the eve of her 50th birthday, CMarie hikes up a slickrock ridge with her dog Carhartt.
S1 · E8
Mar 8, 2023 · 8 min
The Eyes of Ancestors (Payette National Forest, Idaho)
Leaning against a ponderosa on a ridgeline, CMarie watches a storm roll in.
S1 · E7
Mar 1, 2023 · 9 min
Snowy Starry Horse Ride (Collegiate Peaks, Colorado)
Late at night, after a long day of emails and meetings, CMarie rides her horse into a frozen meadow under snowcapped peaks.
S1 · E6
Feb 22, 2023 · 7 min
A Silvery Cold (Rawah Wilderness, Colorado)
CMarie listens to the wind over the lichens and reflects on the word "rawah," which her ancestors, the Ute, spoke: "wild place."
S1 · E5
Feb 15, 2023 · 7 min
Miracles Everywhere (Payette River, Idaho)
Returning to the river to witness the annual kokanee salmon migration, CMarie starts to see the seasonal red of the fish everywhere.
S1 · E4
Feb 8, 2023 · 5 min
Robin's Home Song (Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado)
In the birthplace of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, CMarie remembers an early-morning robin song from her childhood.
S1 · E3
Feb 1, 2023 · 9 min
Healing a Wounded Wilderness (Payette National Forest, Idaho)
On a trail thousands of years old, CMarie sits among the wildflowers near the South Fork Salmon River and watches a tractor cover a fifty-year-old logging road
S1 · E2
Jan 25, 2023 · 8 min
Elk Song (Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado)
On a late afternoon in autumn, when the sun bends the shadows and gives a gold tip to the crowns of Doug fir and lodgepole, CMarie Fuhrman walks into the forest with her cello.

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