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After his father died, 17-year-old Jack Blackwell joined his grandfather, Alec Boostrom, on his trapline here in northern Minnesota's canoe country...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 32:06
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 24:08
A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.
- Added: Jun 30, 2018
- Length: 01:00
HOUR ONE: "In the Company of Wolves" - Wolves are among the most controversial animals on the planet. We'll track Yellowstone's wolves with the peo...
- Added: May 22, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
From: Out of Bounds
Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Aimee Arent. She's the associate manager of the Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, a job...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
How bicycles captivated America - A conversation with an animator behind The Simpsons and Spongebob Squarepants - The story of the disappearing lak...
Bought by WCNY, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WCWP and more
- Added: Sep 01, 2017
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 12
We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 21:32
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie.” In this e...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 18:43
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...
- Added: Jan 22, 2017
- Length: 09:32
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 05:37
Did early 20th century oil wells in southern California trigger major earthquakes?
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, KENW and more
- Added: Nov 05, 2016
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 7
-In his book City Cycling, Ralph Buehler emphasizes that bicycling shouldn’t be limited to those who are trained, fit, and daring enough to battle ...
Bought by WCNY, 'The Sea', WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRDP, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Sep 30, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 8
-An electronic musician uses the sounds of melting glaciers in his composition to raise awareness of climate change.
-Documenting 1,000 years of mo...
Bought by WCNY, Raven Radio, WMUU-LP, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 7
-In the late nineteenth century, American cities were home to more cyclists than anywhere else in the world.
-An animator talks about working on S...
Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KEDT, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Jul 15, 2016
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 7
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...
Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 4
This week, The Rough Draft Diaries takes a visit of the National Museum of the Great Lakes, a museum that spans hundreds of years on the Great Lake...
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 06:24
We hear who really came up with the name Greenpeace and why.
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 01:09
Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 16:50
Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist who has lived and worked on the North Shore since 1974. She's the Northwoods Naturalist on WTIP and...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 17:20
A recently published study suggests that all dogs alive today can trace at least some of their ancestry back to dogs that were domesticated 33,000 ...
- Added: Jan 12, 2016
- Length: 20:06
2015 was a pretty unusual year for weather. Dr. Mark Seeley, extension climatologist, meteorologist, and professor, and regular guest on Minnesota ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2016
- Length: 19:48
Nov. 10 is the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's also the only time each year that the Split Rock Lighthouse beacon i...
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 12:50
When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. Margaret Marangione says new information has emerged sugg...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of them ...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WCNY, WTJU, and WXDU
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 4
