Great Outdoors with Charlie Potter

This week on The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter explains why songbirds are declining while some invasive species continue to thrive, and how a Michigan effort highlights the importance of active wildlife management.

This week on The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter discusses plastics and their legacy environmental costs, whether paper products could help clean up our environment, and why it’s the heart of sports show season.

This week on The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter explores why local villagers support hunting and what proposed Endangered Species Act reforms could mean for conservation.

This week on The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter questions whether hunting can help save elephants, rhinos, and Africa’s iconic big game. Plus, a look at the battle over mining in the Boundary Waters.

This week on The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter reflects on Eddie Bauer’s closing, marking the end of an era, and asks whether the NRA can find its relevance again.

This week on The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter explains how the Federal Duck Stamp winner broke his own record and why deer hunter numbers nationwide are down more than 35% from 40 years ago.

This week on The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter explains why a proposed Oregon ballot measure is raising alarms among conservationists, as well as a closer look at polar bear populations and why recent data shows they’re thriving, despite years of dire predictions.

This week on The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter breaks down why large-scale biofuel projects using Midwest grasslands and prairies failed to gain traction—and why those ideas might still work for our forests. Plus, an update on wolves out West.

On this episode of The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter welcomes Kerry Luft of the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation to explain why efforts to halt flooding corn fields for Louisiana waterfowl lack scientific backing and may threaten bird populations. Plus, a look at the future of hunter recruitment.

On this episode of The Great Outdoors, Charlie Potter dives into the damage threatening Venezuela’s wetlands, updates us on the ECO Hunting Alliance’s forest restoration efforts amid rising deer populations, and explores a surprising “fish disco” off the coast of Great Britain.