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It's Not Wise to Rush About

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Sargeant Mountain Pond in Acadia National Park is the oldest pond on the east coast. Fittingly, it's amassed its fair share of lore. Two friends ad...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Aug 05, 2013
Length: 07:00
Purchases: 1

Horse Companions

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.

Bought by KGUA and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.

Added: May 21, 2013
Length: 01:47
Purchases: 2

Remembering Blair Mountain

From: Miranda Brown

Caption: March on Blair Mountain, June 2011, Credit: Talking Across the Lines

A 16-minute spoken history / audio documentary on Appalachian regional history and the prominent issue of mountaintop removal coal mining. Compiled...

Bought by WDBM and West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Added: Mar 29, 2013
Length: 15:55
Purchases: 2

The Packing Shed

From: Vaska Trajkovska

The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.

Added: Mar 12, 2013
Length: 29:00

What Price Water

From: Eileen McAdam

Caption: One of 10 signs around Ashokan Reservoir of towns that were leveled.

The construction of the Ashokan Reservoir and the Catskill Aqueduct to provide NYC with water has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal....

Added: Feb 27, 2013
Length: 06:37

Build it and they will come

From: Eileen McAdam

Caption: When completed the new TappanZee Bridge will be the world's widest bridge. , Credit: Conceptual design/New York State Thruway Authority

This piece explores the unintended consequences that occurred to a once rural New York community after the building of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Added: Feb 21, 2013
Length: 08:13

Chapter 24 - An Adirondack Summer

From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York

Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...

Added: Feb 18, 2013
Length: 23:05

Storm Over the Mountain

From: Eileen McAdam

Caption: Storm King Mountain , Credit: Scenic Hudson Collection: Records Relating to the Storm King Case, 1963 - 1981, Marist College Archives & Special Collections, USA

Almost 50 years ago, a group of concerned citizens battled energy giant Consolidated Edison and launched the environmental movement.

Bought by KRZA and KUT

Added: Feb 07, 2013
Length: 16:41
Purchases: 2

Saving Crystal Cove

From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Stories of the Coast - How the California Coast was Saved

Caption: Crystal Cove in the good old days

Saving Crystal Cove - The story of Laura Davick, an accidental activist, who used the California Coastal Act to save the historic 1930's cottages i...

Added: Nov 09, 2012
Length: 21:58

Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Tower, Minnesota

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

Caption: Soudan Iron Formation - Banded Iron, Credit: Britt Aamodt

Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Oct 31, 2012
Length: 09:56
Purchases: 4

Life By The Drop: Drought, Water and the Future of Texas

From: KUT

Life By the Drop is a close look at the state of water and drought in Texas, looking both to the past and the future for answers on how the state c...

Bought by WZEN.org, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KUHF

Added: Jun 22, 2012
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 3

The Blue Revolution

From: Chrys Bocast
Series: Aquaculture and You

The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.

Added: Jun 13, 2012
Length: 16:26

Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered

From: WMMT

This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Added: Feb 24, 2012
Length: 08:53
Purchases: 1

Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California's Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto

From: California Legacy Project

Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...

Bought by KZYX and KALW

Added: Sep 02, 2011
Length: 01:50:16
Purchases: 2

St. Cloud Historic Home Tour

From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage

In this feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack takes us on the historic home tour which recently wound its way through the SCSU ne...

Added: Jun 20, 2011
Length: 31:11

Cougar

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Mainers see cougars all the time. Here's the problem: There are no cougars in Maine.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG

Added: May 27, 2011
Length: 09:15
Purchases: 3

Martha Washington (Last Passenger Pigeon), September 1, 1914

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...

Added: Apr 19, 2011
Length: 03:00

Humankind: Passengers (Hour Two)

From: Humankind

With federal support for public transit hanging in the balance, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal trans...

Bought by WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT, KXOT Public Radio and more

Added: Apr 15, 2011
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 7

Humankind: Passengers (Hour One)

From: Humankind

With transportation jobs on the line, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal transportation choices - privat...

Bought by KVSC, WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT and more

Added: Mar 25, 2011
Length: 59:02
Purchases: 9

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

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