Tag: Nature

Richard Louv’s biography ends like this: he would rather fish than write. But between “Richard Louv is…” and “…rather fish than write,” is the story of a man who has written eight books and coined the term “Nature Deficit Disorder.” The book that kicked off an international conversation about the relationship with children and nature is entitled Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder. His latest book, The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder offers a new vision of the future, in which our lives are as immersed in nature as they are in technology.

Dr. Sam Snyder joins us from Kalamazoo, Michigan where he’s recently moved from Florida. He won’t be there for long though, he’s headed to the East Coast, the Desert Southwest and Alaska in the next year, so we’ll find out why when we talk to him today. Sam’s doctoral degree comes from the Religion and Nature program at the University of Florida. His dissertation covered the role that religions and cultural values have played in conservation. For the first time, the National Sporting Library has awarded a John H. Daniels Fellowship to someone in the angling field, Sam heads there for his fellowship this year. He’s been published in the American Fly Fisher Journal, and has a piece on restoration of Rio Grande Cutthroat coming out in that publication later this summer. So we’ll talk with him about all of that – plus his unique take on Dick Cheney’s induction into the American Fly Fishing Museum on today’s Fish Schtick.