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Caption: Courtesy of the Maine Department of Transportation
Lynn Smith moved to Maine in hopes of retiring in peace - but there was one thing she hadn't counted on.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Biologists attach a tracking collar to a blindfolded desert bighorn sheep. , Credit: Kamila Forson
When Elephant Mountain gets too crowded with desert bighorn sheep, and it’s time to start a new herd in Big Bend Ranch State Park, how do you move ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Giant cane dominates the muddy banks of the Rio Grande in many places., Credit: Megan Wilde
Sediment is slowly choking the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, causing more frequent floods and making it easier for invasive plants to...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Maple seeds can fly with their papery propellers. , Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
You might think of plants as immobile, but they've evolved diverse strategies to scatter their offspring far and wide. What are some dispersal tact...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quaking aspens in Big Bend National Park, Credit: James Zech
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Rio Grande silvery minnow, Credit: Aimee Roberson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
These tiny fish disappeared from Texas almost fifty years ago. But today, silvery minnows swim again in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande. What ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Travels around Tasmania to learn about the fate of the little Devil

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 3
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We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:00