North Country History with Rob Burg

About North Country History with Rob Burg

Your podcast on the Forest History of the Great Lakes Region. The forests of the Great Lakes have been home to people for centuries and have provided great resources and wealth, shelter, food, and recreation for many. But in the wake of these uses, the region has been environmentally damaged from deforestation, fire, and erosion, and are still recovering to this day. I will be your guide for exploring the forests and sharing stories of the forests and the people who have called them home. About Rob Burg: Hi! I'm an environmental historian specializing on the forest history of the Great Lakes Region. I am a mostly lifelong Michigan resident and studied at Eastern Michigan University for both my undergraduate degree in History and graduate studies in Historic Preservation. My 35-year professional life has mostly been in history museums, including the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, the Michigan History Museum, and the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer. I began my environmental history career with managing both the Hartwick Pines Logging Museum and the Civilian Conservation Corps Museum for the Michigan History Museum system, directing the Lovells Museum of Trout Fishing History, archivist for the Devereaux Memorial Library in Grayling, Michigan, and as the Interpretive Resources Coordinator for the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska. I am proud that the first person to ever call me an environmental historian was none other than Dr. William Cronon, the dean of American Environmental History.

Publisher

Rob Burg

Category

history · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Dec 2024

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026

   A Conversation with Del Taylor: Ojibway Culture, the Indigenous Experience in Canada, Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and the respect of the forest.

   In this episode, recorded on location in Midland, Ontario during my 2026 Podcast Tour of Ontario, Canada, I sat down with my friend Del Taylor, to talk about his life as an Ojibway in Canada, the indigenous experience, growing up on a reservation, learning important life skills from his father and mother, and about Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, the historic site that he spent forty years of his museum career doing about everything. This episode was recorded in front of an audience of D...

2. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Canoeing in Temagami, A North Country Adventure

   I am currently on my 2026 Podcast Tour in Ontario and I am visting my longtime friend Robert Roe. Rob is a retired Parks Canada Curator and an avid outdoorsman. Rob and I have taken two canoe trips together to Temagami in northern Ontario, north of North Bay. I sat down with him for us to talk about our two trips, the first in September 2017, and the second also in September, in 2023. Take a listen and enjoy. To leave a comment, send me a text here. Support the show

3. 

   31 Aug 2026

   2026 Podcst Tour Preview

   In this episode of the North Country History with Rob Burg podcast I am previewing my 2026 Podcast Tour in Ontario Canada. This tour, from September 10 to September 26 will hist several topics of forest history: the Great Lakes fur trade, the French-Indigenous people relations, the lumber industry, and liesure and recreation in the Northwoods. After a two day stop at the Straits of Mackinac here in Michigan, I will enter into Canada at Sault Ste. Marie and make a circutious route around...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

4,108

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

21

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

32

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