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The Forgotten River
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: Trash collects in the bed of the Santa Cruz, Credit: Aengus Anderson
Tucson, Arizona would have never existed without the Santa Cruz river. Yet Tucson’s success has transformed the Santa Cruz from an intermittent st...

Bought by WRIR, KVSC, KUT, and KVNF


  • Added: Feb 13, 2011
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 4
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Doomed Island
From: peter stock
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The heart-wrenching true tale of a South Pacific island paradise that commits ecological suicide.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 23:02
  • Purchases: 2
Isle Royale's History And Future: What Will Become Of The Isle Royale Families?
From: WTIP
Series: News and Public Affairs
Caption: The passenger boat M/V Wenonah approaches the historic Sivertson fishhouse dock at Isle Royale National Park, Credit: Carah Thomas
The National Park Service is currently developing a plan for Isle Royale National Park that will decide the fate of several North Shore families wi...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 11:08
  • Purchases: 1
After the Flood
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Mae Savage Home, Credit: Dead River Area Historical Society
Many Mainers come to Flagstaff Lake to kayak, hunt or snowmobile. But the story of the lake is largely untold. Sixty years ago this spring, three s...

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 2
Tom McCall, January 8, 1983
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
"Memory of Trees" with MN Author Gayla Marty
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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What was the land like where you grew up? What memories do you have of the place of your childhood? MN author Gayla Marty talked with Heidi on Real...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 20:00
The World Bank's Fossil Fuel Addiction
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Although the World Bank wants to be thought of as green, figures reveal that the Bank is flooding the third world with fossil fuel energy projects.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1987 The Roaming Mobro Trash Barge
From: Action Speaks Radio
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In 1987, a barge filled with New York City garbage was dragged up and down the East Coast and into Mexican and Caribbean waters. Our panelists use ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, WRPI and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Battle of Sugar Point on Leech Lake
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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The Battle of Sugar Point on Leech Lake: northern MN historian, Cecelia McKeig, talks about the causes of the last 19th century armed conflict betw...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 11, 2010
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 2
The 100 Year Legacy of the Big Burn
From: Amanda Loder
Caption: The Aftermath of the 1910 Big Burn, Credit: US Forest Service
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
A Full-Circle Superior Expedition
From: WTIP
Series: Arts and Culture
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You’ve probably heard of folks driving around Lake Superior—but walking? Meet veteran naturalists and educators Mike Link and Kate Crowley, who set...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 14:33
  • Purchases: 1
Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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The U.S. Forest Service was just about to get the Congressional ax when a monster fire saved it. During this program, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journa...

Bought by WRPI and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Early Agriculture On Lake Superior: An Interview With Archaeologist Dr. Matthew Boyd
From: WTIP
Series: Arts and Culture
Caption: Cedarbark Rice Bag
In this feature, Anthropologist Dr. Matthew Boyd of Thunder Bay, Ontario talks about his latest research, which uncovered evidence that Native peo...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 09, 2010
  • Length: 17:22
  • Purchases: 1
After Centuries Of Wildlife Destruction, Have We Learned Anything?
From: WTIP
Caption: Sea Otter Hunters, 1896
In this episode of Points North, Shawn discusses a common thread through American history, where the culture of slaughter for market has depleted m...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
Back to the Land in Debs
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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We talk with Diane Schwanz about the back to the land movement in Debs, MN in the 1970's.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 21:55
  • Purchases: 1
Asian Carp in the Great Lakes
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Asian Carp: an interview with Luke Skinner, Supervisor of the MN DNR’s Invasive Species Program.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 19:52
About Your House with Bob & Pat Yapp-Show #1
From: About Your House
Series: About Your House with Bob & Pat Yapp
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In this first program of the new series Bob & Pat take calls from New York, Chicago & Des Moines.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
Blood, Gold & Medicine: Healing Maidu Country
From: estrella acosta
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In California's Sierra Nevada the Tsi-Akim Maidu tribe is working to heal from being nearly annihilated when the Gold Rush came to town in the 1800s.

  • Added: Jul 14, 2010
  • Length: 58:11
The Maryland Gold Rush: Mining in Maryland
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
Caption: Fred Parker and Jeff Nagy at Patapsco Valley State Park, Credit: Courtesy of: Andrew Hiller
This feature looks at the history, production, and preservation of minerals, including gold and silver in the area around Washington DC and the lov...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 06:07
Dam Radio Story
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The story of one man's quest to harness the power of the tide, and why now, nearly 100 years later, the quest continues.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 1
These Buildings Have Feelings
From: Hannah Krakauer
Caption: Bellingham Granary, Credit: Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
An in-depth exploration of the waterfront development in Bellingham, WA.

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 27:46
Native Treaty Rights & Today
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Federal Court rulings in 1988 and 1999 upheld the off-reservation fishing, hunting and gathering rights of many Ojibwe people in Wisconsin and Minn...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
Newmarket: Birthplace of American horseracing faces threat to 350-year tradition
From: Liz Ruskin
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Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:38
The Showdown for Itasca State Park
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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The history of Mary Gibbs and Itasca State Park & her showdown with the lumber industry as told by historian Dr. Janet Rith-Najarian.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 18:07

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