Hosted by Emme Hayes, founder of Articles In Common, the series features unscripted phone conversations that begin with everyday encounters and open into deeper reflections on outdoor identity, animals, and the cultural stories shaping how we relate to the natural world. <br/><br/><a href="https://landandline.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">landandline.substack.com</a>
Land & Line
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Hosted by Emme Hayes, founder of Articles In Common, the series features unscripted phone conversations that begin with everyday encounters and open into deeper reflections on outdoor identity, animals, and the cultural stories shaping how we relate to the natural world. <br/><br/><a href="https://landandline.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">landandline.substack.com</a>
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April 9, 2026
Protect Public Lands. But Make It Climate.
<p>Lexie and I started where a lot of good conversations start — with dogs. And like most of our conversations we quickly dove into the latest on policy, climate, and what we're noticing in the outdoor space. Questions that came up in this phone chat like what does it actually mean to be outside, and what are we really after when we go? Why can't you protect public lands without naming the cattle industry, the USDA's grip on the Forest Service, or the Canadian mining company quietly trying to drill near the headwaters of LA's water supply? We got into California's snowpack and what this wildfire season is shaping up to be, wildlife crossings, the trophy hunting origins of WWF, and what the film Trade Secret uncovered about why polar bears still aren't fully protected by law. Lexie works in policy — she's been apart of conversations with these corporations that I haven't, and she sees firsthand how slowly change actually moves, and why. What I didn't expect was how quickly we'd find the edges of an industry we both believed in, and how much we'd agree on what we found there.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Land and Line at <a href="https://landandline.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">landandline.substack.com/subscribe</a>
March 14, 2026
Afterthoughts: The Pigeon Racer
<p>After I hung up with Dennis, one thing he said stayed with me.</p><p>Dennis is 88 years old and has been racing pigeons since he was fourteen. During our conversation I asked him what he had learned after doing this for so long.</p><p>His answer was simple.</p><p>He said that over time he realized pigeons aren’t machines.</p><p>Later in the conversation he also said something else that kept echoing in my mind:“If they did good for me, I kept them until they died.”</p><p>Those two ideas sitting next to each other made me start thinking about how often our care for animals is tied to usefulness.</p><p>Working animals. Hunting. Factory farming. Zoos. Animals in entertainment. Racing pigeons.</p><p>Even something like animal shelters overflowing with dogs can trace back to the same pattern — when animals stop fitting into the role we’ve created for them, they’re often discarded.</p><p>Maybe I’m noticing it more lately because of where I’ve been and the conversations happening around me. I was recently at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival watching the documentary Trade Secret, and there were a lot of discussions around wolf conservation and reintroduction. Back in Los Angeles, there are protests outside the zoo most weekends.</p><p>Different stories. Different contexts.</p><p>But when you start paying attention, you begin to see how this inherited relationship with animals shows up everywhere.</p><p>This short reflection is me thinking through that tension — between recognizing that animals aren’t machines, and the many systems we’ve built that still treat them like they are.</p><p>Sometimes a random conversation in a parking lot reveals more than you expect.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Land and Line at <a href="https://landandline.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">landandline.substack.com/subscribe</a>
March 1, 2026
The Day I Met an 88 year old Pigeon Racer.
<p>It was a normal day. I parked at the LA Zoo and took my dogs out for a hike. The lot is huge and I had parked off in an empty section.</p><p>When I got back, there was this older guy parked right next to me. Tailgate down. Just standing there.</p><p>I put my dogs in the car when something caught my eye — a flicker of movement. At that point I see the really short wooden crates. I could see through the mesh on the side that there was something moving inside them.</p><p>He slides open the crates, and all these birds fly out. So I get out of the car and I asked him, “Are they coming back?”.</p><p>And that’s where this conversation began.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Land and Line at <a href="https://landandline.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">landandline.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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