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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200 Pieces

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

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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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278 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

Caption: Fly angler on the McCloud River, Credit: Curtis Knight/CalTrout
Dave is joined by the Executive Director of California Trout, Curtis Knight, to talk about the conservation organization and its regional restorati...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, high skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book and the Aus...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power for growi...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave and Pascal Lee team up once again, this time to discuss Lee winning the Carl Sagan Prize from Wonderfest in the San Francisco Bay Area for his...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we’re in conversation with award-winning plantsman Riz Reyes of Washington State-based RH Horticulture and Landwave Gardens. Riz is the...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated children’s literature. Joy Takes...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Desert Bighorn Sheep crossing under State Highway 62, Credit: UC Davis Road Ecology Center image
Dave visits with Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis. A relatively new discipline, road ecology seeks to understand ho...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As we turn the calendar to November, and the season to decidedly late-fall and even wintery in many places across the U.S., we look toward our fall...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto a conservationist, an artist, and expert storyteller. Known as B...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: The then newly minted Dr. Kendall Hall with father Dr. Raymond Hall
CSU Chico Professor of Physics Kendall Hall joins Dave once again as a special co host as they talk to her father, also a Physics professor, Raymon...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1