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Death Valley's 1,000-Year-Flood
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It sure has been a wild week or two, especially here in the Mojave. Just a few days after massive flash floods washed out a number of roads within ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Last Blast of Winter
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Happy Earth Day, people of Earth. Here's an episode about the desert in winter, appropriate for our spring blast of rain and snow and cold, cold te...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Antidote for Despair
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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One good thing about wandering the wilderness is you can escape the despair of society. Walt Whitman did it, as did Georgia O'Keeffe. Did you reali...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Descending to Alphorns
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard about a group of Alphorn players in the Sierra Nevada.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Out of Our Holes
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The middle of the country might be frozen solid all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, but here in the Great Mojave Wilderness the weather is fine, the...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Great Conjunction
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Prepare for the Great Conjunction of 2020, which you can watch happen in real time, by watching Saturn and Jupiter grow ever closer together in our...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bless Us, St. Minerva
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Have you heard the Good News about St. Minerva, patron goddess of the desert wilderness? Maybe she is Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, mother of Joshua Tree ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Day's Murderer and the Apostle of the Cacti
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Travel Options for the Collapse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Treed by a Jaguar
From: Outside Magazine
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The story of two explorers chased down—well, technically up—by a jaguar.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 28:08
HumaNature: One Hour Special #3
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: a man walks from Mexico to the tip of South America with his best friend, a donkey; a man crosse...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KHNS, KUT, KSUT and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
HumaNature: One Hour Special #2
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: a man utters a curse that comes true, a summer stint at a dinosaur quarry challenges a woman’s s...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KHNS, KSKA, KSUT and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Charlie Mylie (Walking The Border)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
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Borders separate us, but they also define us. Creating your identity means defining what you are in relation to what you are not. This episode is a...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
HumaNature: One Hour Special #1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special evergreen edition of HumaNature formatted for air: a man in the wilderness searches a lake for a missing boater, a recovering alcoholic s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, KHNS, KSKA and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning nature writer Gary Ferguson talks about and reads from his memoir 'The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness.'

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Trekking to the North Pole
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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In the spring of 2013 four people went on a trek to the North Pole with a message.

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, KMXT, KSJD, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:02
  • Purchases: 5
The Python Challenge
From: casey schelhorn
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Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "Blue Trailings (Parker's Road Song)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Anthony Swann likes music, physical books, coffee houses and he lives with his cat, Samba, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Here, Swann presents his poem, "B...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
A Beach Made of Glass and Hands in Acid: One Man and Many Stories
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This week Radio Curious takes you to Glass Beach in Ft. Bragg, California for a visit with Captain Cass Farrington, the creator and owner of the Gl...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Spooky Trip Down The Ghost River
From: Candice Ludlow
Caption: Heading into the Ghost Section of the Wolf River, Credit: Candice Ludlow
Audio postcard with Keith Kirkland, an avid river geek, tells about an eerie night on the Ghost River.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
Tales from the South 008
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Rudy Martin sets out in the pre-dawn darkness to find a legendary fishing spot, Gale Gill starts her engine and gets ready for takeoff, and Bradi R...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Mary the Kayak Lady and "One Woman, One Kayak, 1007 Lakes"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Think you have insurmountable odds? How about being 4 foot 9 and setting up a goal for yourself to kayak every lake in Itasca County? How about fin...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
Escape from Burton Island
From: David Maxon
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On a late summer camping trip, a couple finds that a little seclusion can sometimes go a long way.

Bought by The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jun 25, 2009
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 1
Three Cups of Tea
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
Caption: Greg Mortenson
Humanitarian Greg Mortenson discusses the book that tells the story of his work building schools for the children of Pakistan.

  • Added: May 11, 2009
  • Length: 14:27
Winter Caretaker (Winter Mix)
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Peter Mattox manages a guest cabin in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Bought by WABE and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2