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Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Creosote’s therapeutic applications would make any biotech CEO green with envy. What are this desert shrub’s medicinal properties? And why is it su...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during the Chihuahuan Desert's dry winter and spring. How do they do it?
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
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
John Latimer shares his observations of the change of nature in our lives.
- Added: Jul 07, 2010
- Length: 16:14
Insects and the world we humans share with them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is anthropologist Hugh Raffles, the author...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 29:23
Survival is a general human trait, but living in Northern MN reminds us we just barely surviving - and the 3 good months are when bears are hungry...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
This includes John Latimer's Phenology Report and Talk Backs. And a story about Dogfish: Last march, Armas Yuhala trapped tons of the “rough fish” ...
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 58:02
For millennia when couples were not able to conceive and bear their own children their options were somewhat limited, and not at all available if t...
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 28:52
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
From: Chris Goldstein
Are new methods to help the environment solutions or scams? Independent journalist and author Heather Rogers traveled the globe to get the scoop on...
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 29:00
In this edition of Radio Curious we’re visiting with Helen Menasian, director of the Redwood Valley Outdoor Education Project located north of Ukia...
- Added: Feb 22, 2010
- Length: 29:00
As part of a series of ‘Radio Curious on tour in Scotland’ we interview Jim Fairlie, the organizer of Farmers Markets in Scotland. Jim is a farmer...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:20
Do you know how the food you eat is raised? In this conversation host and producer Attorney Barry Vogel visits with Gene Baur, author of “Farm San...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:23
Why do you buy what you buy? What do you hope to gain from it and will it make you a happier, sexier and more successful person? In these days of e...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:00
The executive director of "Mendocino County Tomorrow", Robin Collier, known locally for her skills in making excellent cheese cake, is the guest on...
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 31:44
Less than one percent of the earth's water is consumable, and many parts of the world may be heading toward water bankruptcy. Should private owners...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It was John Cage who suggested that music was always in the air, and John Luther Adams has been tapping that sound for over 30 years. His evocative...
- Added: Jun 23, 2009
- Length: 03:30
Hear the haunting voices of the loon on a summer day with host Richard Nelson
Bought by KCHU, KTRT RADIO INC, KDUR, KMXT, WMNF and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 6
Leaving a green home, staying in a hotel and being green.
- Added: Dec 03, 2008
- Length: 04:00
- Added: Nov 26, 2008
- Length: 04:00