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KCHO FM 91.7 and KFPR 88.9 are non-commercial non-profit organizations which are a service of California State University, Chico. We provide listeners with a vast assortment of programs reaching a diverse listening audience. We are affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This allows us to bring our listeners informative, educational and entertaining programs.

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Conversations exploring where science and pop culture collide. Hosted by Dave Schlom with audio production by Matt Fidler.

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A 5-part series deeply exploring of the California wildfire problem. Public Radio Veteran, Matt Fidler, combines on-location interviews with experts who understand wildfire the best, and NPR-style story telling to give listeners a non-political perspective on how to best approach a problem that is becoming increasingly destructive and deadly.

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Essential connections exist between nature, our gardens, and our places in both. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program and podcast that explores what we mean when we garden.

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A 4 minute self-contained module; Up the Road is dedicated to sustaining the California story, and to deepening your connection to this unique and amazing place. Each week Up the Road shares stories about the land, its natural history, its people, the lives they have lived, the stories they have told over the centuries, the stories they are creating right now. The stories that keep us all here, that create California’s ecology of home.


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Caption: Visitors at Lassen Volcanic National Park  , Credit: National Park Service
In this episode, host Dave Schlom tackles a topic much in the news lately, how to safely and ethically use our public lands and waters. Dave visits...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, wildscaping, backyard habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat gardening, Homegro...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Aerial view of the High Sierra snowpack in 2023, Credit: Airborne Snow Observatories Inc.
Dave visits with author Patrick Dean about his new book, Nature's Messenger: Mark Catesby and his adventures in a new world. Dean's book reveals th...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration through the l...

  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and monitoring of habitat ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave investigates two of the components that make up most of the universe -- dark matter and dark energy. While their effects are measurable, their...

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  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we kick off a several part series looking into the state of seed specifically wildland seed for conservation and ecological restoration i...

  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Artistic rendering of a supermassive black hole, Credit: NASA
Dave sets his sites on some cosmic mysteries -- the physics of black holes and the latest discovery of a cluster of galaxies closer to the birth of...

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  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We are now mid-May, half way through a month of graduations, spring celebrations and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US this comi...

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  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Heidi Hammel with her Uranus and Neptune plushies  and the JWST, Credit: ARCS Foundation
Dave is joined by special co host Kendall Hall, assistant physics professor at CSU Chico for a very special conversation with one of America's grea...

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  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1