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"Border Country" tells stories of early 20th century canoeing adventures
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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"Border Country" covers eight canoe adventures taken by Howard Greene and others between 1906 and 1916. Greene wrote about the trips with great de...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 21:20
  • Purchases: 1
150 Years Later, the American Divide Is Shifting
From: H2O Radio
Series: Water News in the West
Caption: H2O Radio News
John Wesley Powell recognized—back in 1869—that U.S. development west of the 100th meridian would have to be different than the East because water ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:57
Divers uncover 1899 Great Lakes shipwreck
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Margaret Olwill, Credit: [Historical Collection of the Great Lakes/Bowling Green State University]
A group of underwater explorers has announced the discovery of the Margaret Olwill, a steam barge that sank in Lake Erie off the Ohio coast in 1899.

Bought by WORT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WVBI-LP, WBFO, WSKG and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: :56
  • Purchases: 6
The Patterning Instinct
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jeremy Lent
Almost 90-years before Columbus, the Chinese sent hundreds of ships to explore distant lands. Their odyssey took them as far afield as Africa. They...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nate Blakeslee's “American Wolf”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Nate Blakeslee is an investigative reporter who usually writes about politics in Texas. In “American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession i...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 09:52
Waste dumps a burden for minority neighborhoods
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Environmental Injustice
Caption: Children playing next to Garden Valley [Bill Nehez/CSU Cleveland Memory Project]
Would you want an industrial waste dump near your house? Probably not. But across the country, environmental hazards like waste dumps tend to be lo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 10
Jeremy Lent: Human History and the Climate
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeremy Lent
As we move into a new year, and try to square 2017 in our rear view mirrors, it's an opportune moment to contemplate how we avoid repeating the mis...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:40
Close One
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
Caption: baby antelope, Credit: snappygoat free images
"Close One' is a tale of early California, a time when Mexico, indigenous tribes, and Americans were struggling to achieve dominance in the West.

  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 21:45
Crystal Bay - How a failed mine may have preserved the North Shore
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
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Crystal Bay is a unique location featuring cliffs, a gravel beach, caves and a creek. It's located near Finland, Minnesota, along the North Shore o...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 08:18
Isle Royale's Rock Harbor Lodge and Dockside Fish Market connection
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
Caption: The Voyageur II docked at Rock Harbor, Isle Royale
This edition of the Lake Superior Project takes a look at how commercial fishing on Isle Royale, Michigan, has changed. The remote island about 15 ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 08:50
Mons Hanson - The life and death of a Hovland pioneer
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
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In the early 1900s, many Scandinavian immigrants settled along the North Shore of Lake Superior. In this edition of The Lake Superior Project, WTI...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 08:06
Winona and It's History on the Mississippi River
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we talk to Captain Aaron Repinski of the Winona Tour boat. Aaron tells us about the history of the Mississippi R...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 21:40
NOLA vs Nature: The Other Biggest Flood In New Orleans History
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Crevasse, viewed from the levee., Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
For the next few episodes TriPod dives into the city’s messy relationship with water through a new series called NOLA vs. Nature. First up: a look ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
Interview w/ naturalist DIANE ACKERMAN about her book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
From: Out of Bounds
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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
RDD: Here We Are Still Today
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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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
Bicycle Fever at the Turn of the Century (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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
Rick Anderson donates family's archaeological collection to Grand Portage National Monument
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Over many years, Grand Portage resident Rick Anderson and his family collected thousands of historic artifacts near the Boundary Waters. Now, he ha...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2017
  • Length: 21:17
Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Tom Nelson vs. the Ghost Bird
From: Ampers
Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Tom Nelson was an electrical engineer living in Minnesota who got involved in a birding controversy. Britt Aamodt reports how the engineer weighed ...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, WDSE, KSRQ, KVSC and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 21
Campfire Stories
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
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An interview with authors Dave & Ilyssa Kyu on their book project to tell the tales of six national parks

  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:58
Saving the Last Ocean
From: Generation Anthropocene
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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
The Flattened Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Age old discoveries and scientific advances have long dispelled the belief that the earth is flat. Recent technological advances have moved recorde...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:24
MN90: Minnesota’s State Bird
From: Ampers
Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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It isn’t a Minnesota summer with the sound of a loon coming off the lake. Producer Britt Aamodt wonders what are all those sounds the loon makes an...

Bought by KVSC, WDSE, WDSE, KVSC, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
173: Parks and Recreation (R) / Barbecue (R), 5/27/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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For some people, wilderness is the ultimate experience. America’s national parks make that possible. This week, the complicated history and politic...

  • Added: May 28, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58

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