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Park Stories: Tour Yosemite with a Buffalo Soldier
From: Jim Williams
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A Buffalo Soldier comes alive through a Yosemite park ranger

  • Added: Dec 11, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
The Sad Demise of the Passenger Pigeon
From: Long Haul Productions
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The passenger pigeon was once the most common species in North America - now it's extinct. A look at how the bird disappeared.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 4
Baldy Is Back
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Bald Eagle is back. Which is great news considering all it's been through.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Easter Island's Lost Paradise
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking?

  • Added: Jul 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:29
Child's Photo Proves Hope for Condors
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Not long ago, a kindergartener snapped a photo of a rare bird...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
30 Years Flying Into Hurricanes
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's no news to anyone that hurricanes can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that im...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
Last Chance for Oysters
From: Lawrence Lanahan
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From Weekend America, a day on the river with one of southern Maryland's last working oystermen

Bought by The Nature Podcast


  • Added: May 06, 2007
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Arbor Day Around the World
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It started in 1872 on the barren plains of Nebraska...It's Arbor Day!

  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
Tree City U.S.A.
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ever wondered if your city is a "Tree City?"

  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
Bald Eagles Breeding on California's Channel Islands
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The bald eagle is back! Back on California's Channel Islands, that is, after facing near extinction forty years ago.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Restoring England's Countryside
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In its manufacturing heyday, England was infamous for its skies dark with coal smoke belching from mills and factories.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Wolves Return to Eastern Germany
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Bears in Deutschland?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him "Petzi" -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Are Bowhead Whales the World's Oldest Mammals?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Who's the longest-lived human on record? Jeanne Calment of France -- 122 years!

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
America's Wetland
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The place is America?s Wetland -- millions of acres along Louisiana?s Gulf Coast that teem with life

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
EPA Cancels Pesticide Registration
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You might say carbofuran is an equal-opportunity killer. It takes out Eagles, Red-tailed Hawks, and migratory song-birds of all types.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Henry Ford's Soybean Dream
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Henry Ford always thought agriculture and industry were natural partners.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Saving the Salton Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever wondered where migratory birds get all the energy for such long, grueling flights? Well, there are pit stops along the way, like the ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change Threatens Siberian Permafrost
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Taming the Salt Monster
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The great swathes of the Western Australian wheatbelt were created a century ago when 1000 acres of bush were burned a day and the land became the ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WYSO and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 6
Ice Cutting in Vermont
From: Sarah Yahm
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a small community in Vermont revitalizes the old New England tradition of ice cutting and in the process talks about sustainability, communal livin...

Bought by CKMO and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 20, 2006
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 2
Winter Caretaker (Summer Mix)
From: Jesse Dukes
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Peter Mattox alone in the woods, contemplates wilderness in America.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2006
  • Length: 04:36
Nuclear Plowshares
From: Gabriel Spitzer
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What if the government wanted to blow up thermonuclear bombs near your house -- and forgot to tell you about it.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPFA, and KSUT


  • Added: Jun 25, 2006
  • Length: 14:33
  • Purchases: 4
Valdivia: Stories of Survival
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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MIT Freshmen travel to Valdivia, Chile, and report on three stories of survival they have found there: ecological survival, cultural survival, and ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 23:26
Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1