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John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Steven Stoll, Ramp Hollow & Rachel Cleetus, Underwater
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Steven Stoll about his brilliant history of Appalachia: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. Then, coastal property values are threa...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
The Dispossessed, Part 5; The Mountain People, Chapter 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Blue Ridge Mountains, Credit: Charles McGuigan
The Mountain People had settled in the Blue Ridge long before the United State gained its independence. They followed the Great Wagon Road from Lan...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 07, 2018
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1
Sandy in Gowanus
From: Jamie Courville
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Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:22
Blackbird Pot Pie: Not the Pie Umami Made
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs: Stories Inspired by "Appetite"
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For some South Jersey residents, "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is more than just a nursery rhyme; it's supper.

Bought by KRPS, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 3
Minnesota Disasters Traveling Exhibit
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum to talk with their staff about a new exhibit...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 23:30
  • Purchases: 1
Making Room For Shenandoah National Park
From: Jesse Dukes
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500 families were displaced from their homes to make space for the Shenandoah National Park

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 6
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
Bald Eagles Breeding on California's Channel Islands
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
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
RN Documentary: Zeeland '53
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 2
Hollow Victory
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A David and Goliath battle against a mining technique that blows off mountaintops, buries streams and destroys communities in the hollows of West V...

Bought by WAMU, KGNU Community Radio, WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, Audible and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 7