North State Public Radio

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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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Blue Dot 
212 Pieces

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

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California Burning 
11 Pieces

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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Cultivating Place  
295 Pieces

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.

Latest Pieces

CP - A Devotion to the Mysterium of Place as an Antidote to Existential Homesickness, with Janisse Ray
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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Working under the online name Trackless Wild, Janisse Ray is an American writer, naturalist and environmental activist. Just about everything she ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
BD - Meet the Beetles! A conversation with Caltech entomologist Joseph Parker
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Rove beetle with an attending ant , Credit: Parker Lab Caltech
Dave visits with Dr. Joseph Parker, entomologist and beetle expert and head of the Parker Lab at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year" with Margaret Renkl BEST OF
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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This week we revisit a favorite conversation from the archive, “The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year," with author and backyard tender and observe...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
BD - The greatest photograph of all: Earthrise and the man who took it, William Anders
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Gerry Griffin with his photograph of Earthrise signed by Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders.
Blue Dot pays tribute to one of the most iconic photographs ever taken, Earthrise, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders on Christmas Eve, 196...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - Trees are Bridges to the Sky, with ecologist poet Frederick Livingston
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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“Are Humans Parasites sowing our own hunger, or fruit, gifts from Earth to our future, is the edge of our lives, civilization, and species, a cliff...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
CP - Good Citizenship - Good Stewardship: Native Seed/SEARCH, with Alexandra Zamecnik
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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It’s the seedy time of summer. This week of the fourth of July we’re working from the premise that foundational to good citizenship is great stewar...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
BD - In memoriam: Blue Dot's 2022 tribute to Ed Stone
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Scientist Edward C. Stone., Credit: NSAS / JPL
Blue Dot revisits an episode where we profiled the amazing career of one of America's greatest space scientists, Ed Stone. Stone passed away at the...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - National Pollinator Week with the Pollinator Posse, Tora Rocha
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Image courtesy of Tora Rocha, Pollinator Posse. All rights reserved.
It’s full summer - for us and for the fauna of the Northern Hemisphere. That means many of our most charismatic, sun-loving pollinators are at th...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
BD - 1906: The Great Northern California Earthquake Pt. 2
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: San Francisco in ruins, 1906, Credit: Balloon Photography by George R. Lawrence
Blue Dot concludes its look back and forward at the earthquake that shook Northern California on April 18, 1906. Dave visits once again with Susan...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - Being Still, with Mary Jo Hoffman
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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Happy (almost) Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemi...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00

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Staff of North State Public Radio

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Matthew Fidler (Admin)
Producer/ Audio Engineer
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Evan Matsler (Admin)
Director of Operations
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Sarah Bohannon (Admin)
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Stephen Starbuck (Admin)
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Sarah Downs (Admin)
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