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Crows
From: NPR
Series: How To Do Everything
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We tell you how to deal with thousands and thousands of unwanted crows.

Bought by North Country Public Radio, KRUA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Louisville Public Media, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 5
Pine grosbeaks back at the winter feeder
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Male pine grosbeak
Unlike their raucous evening grosbeak relatives, pine grosbeaks are calm, melodious and are generally better mannered. Jay Andersen of WTIP North S...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2012
  • Length: 08:02
Bobcats are back in the neighborhood
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Bobcat
The Arrowhead has three large cats, and one of them seems to be more apparent this winter. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke t...

Bought by KSRQ, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and WDSE


  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 3
Winter at the end of the year
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Winter in the wilderness
We’re coming to the end of the year, and there are plenty of changes and activities to look for when we’re out on winter walks. Jay Andersen of WTI...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
A busy lakeshore weasel -- American mink
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Mink by the lakeshore
There’s a very busy member of the weasel family that populates our lakeshores and streams. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke t...

Bought by KSRQ and WDSE


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Arrowhead drought
From: WTIP
Caption: Low stream
This year, particularly the last few months have been dry in Northern Minnesota. Dry to the point of drought. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Comm...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 1
Looking for autumn willows
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Autum willow
The woods and wetlands are full of willow species. One of them keeps its catkins well into winter – and that’s a good way to identify them. Jay And...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
The story of Lake Superior herring
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Lake Superior herring
When Scandinavian immigrants came to the north shore, they brought with them remembrances of herring fishing in the oceans. Lake Superior herring a...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2
Evening grosbeaks -- cycle or decline?
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Evening grosbreak feeding young
For years evening grosbeaks have been common at local birdfeeders. Not so much recently. Is the decline just a cycle or a major change for these co...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 2
The many faciets of bountiful birch
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Stand of birch
The paper birch is an iconic symbol of the north shore and north woods. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke to local naturalist ...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 2
Fall to winter -- the seasons change
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Northern shrike
Fall moves toward winter – sometimes in slow motion, sometimes quickly. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke to local naturalist...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 1
Leaf litter: an important part of forest ecology
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Autumn leaves
If trees didn’t lose their leaves in the fall, a whole lot of good things on the forest floor just wouldn’t happen. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Sho...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
Fuzzy bugs and tiny moths along the North Shore
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Wolly aphid
Tiny bluish insects with skirts and millions of very small moths. It’s autumn on the North Shore. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio ...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:39
Golden trees -- tamaracks
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Tamaracks along the shore
Along the roadsides and out in the lowlands, the golden tree we see are tamaracks. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke to local ...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Oct 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
Time for migrating shrews
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Short-tailed shrew
They’re small – even tiny – but bundles of energy and this time of year you can see them scurrying about in search of food. Jay Andersen of WTIP No...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:32
True Hibernators of the North Shore
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Woodchuck
Bears hibernate, but many don’t consider them true hibernators. We do have three mammals locally who truly hibernate. WTIPs Jay Andersen spoke to l...

Bought by WRNC-LP, KSRQ, and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 3
Pale plant -- Indian Pipe
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Caption: Indian Pipe, Credit: Wikipedia
One of the few totally white plants in our woods is the so-called Indian Pipe. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Radio, spoke to local naturalist Ch...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 2
Untitled (August 15, 2011)
From: WTIP
Caption: Fireweed
In the late summer many woodland and roadside plants are in bloom. WTIPs Jay Andersen spoke to local naturalist Chel Anderson about fireweed, aster...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Flowering Shrubs
From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal
Caption: Clethra, Credit: Sericea/Flickr
This week, Charlie talks about three hardy bushes that flower in the middle of the summer. Clethra, the button bush, and the seven-son flower take ...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Woodchucks
From: Vermont Public
Series: Charlie's Garden Journal
Caption: Culprit Caught Eating Petunias, Credit: NHN 2009/Flickr
Charlie Nardozzi addresses one of the most persistent of pests; the woodchuck. Learn a no-nonsense approach for ridding your landscape of woodchuck...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Play Your Best Golf Now
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Lynn Marriott, Pia Nilsson and David de Rothschild, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 1
Will's Tiny House
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Will Hesch of Winona Minnesota built a tiny house in an effort to reduce his carbon footprint. Today we will learn how Will accomplished his task, ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 16:37
Ocean Dead Zones Proliferate Around the World
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There are now over 400 "dead zones" in coastal oceanic waters with varying degrees of oxygen-deprivation.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
A Mass Extinction of Species is Happening Now
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists believe the earth is in the midst of the 6th mass extinction of species now, due to human-induced causes.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
The geologic impacts of global warming.
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A scientific conference in London, England studied the geologic impacts of climate change by reviewing the records of previous warming periods. It...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00