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Episode 95: Close Encounters Of The Wild Kind III
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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It's late spring and animals are on the move. Sometimes their paths cross with people. For our last episode of the season, here are two stories…thi...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:57
Episode 80: Starstruck
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Juan Martinez grew up in South Central L.A. in the early nineties. He was struggling to find his way until he traded detention for a pack of jalape...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 10:09
  • Purchases: 2
Foraging For Mushrooms
From: NANCY GUAN
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Long-time mushroom enthusiast Andre Kohler takes us on a foraging trip through the Santa Monica mountains.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:28
Episode 79: The Feeling Of Being Alive
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Boyd Varty lives on a game reserve in South Africa near Kruger National Park. After his family began returning the land to its wild state, it awake...

Bought by WCNY and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 20:06
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 64: Migrations
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Pat were nearly finished with the most ambitious trip of their lives, a 4000-mile trek across the Yukon and Ala...

Bought by KRZA and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 60: The Source
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Manasseh Franklin wanted to make the melting of glaciers more real to people through her writing. So on an Alaskan rafting trip, she followed water...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 23:41
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 51: The Water At The Roof Of The World
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Wang Ping wanted to go to Tibet to bless the world. But to do that, she had to risk her own safety.

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:04
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 38: The Hunt
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Jessi Johnson is a modern-day Artemis. But the perfect shot led her on a heartbreaking odyssey.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 34:53
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 34: The Law Of Gravity
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Bruce Smith was on a routine helicopter flight in the remote Wind River Mountains. But what goes up must come down…one way or another.

Bought by WDBM, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2018
  • Length: 18:26
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Snowy Plovers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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On this segment of Sound Ecology, Ornithologist Mark Colwell features one of our dynamic coastal residents, the western snowy plover.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, KFOI Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 31: Why Elephants Never Forget
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Aubrey Bertram traveled to East Asia to help animals that had been abused by humans. But a harrowing experience taught her that good intentions mig...

Bought by KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 18:24
  • Purchases: 3
The Self-Rattling House
From: The Organist
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In houses that double as musical instruments, Solange Knowles, Will Oldham, and five-year-old children perform on sonic architecture that reflects ...

Bought by KALW and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Redwoods
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the magnificent Redwood trees of northwestern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Murres
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting nesting murre colonies along the northern California coast. For air during late spring and summer.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 2
HumaNature: One Hour Special #3
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: a man walks from Mexico to the tip of South America with his best friend, a donkey; a man crosse...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KHNS, KUT, KSUT and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
Sound Ecology: three-spined stickleback
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An Audio postcard highlighting the tiny, beautiful and behaviorally unique three-spined stickleback fish.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 2
HumaNature: One Hour Special #2
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: a man utters a curse that comes true, a summer stint at a dinosaur quarry challenges a woman’s s...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KHNS, KSKA, KSUT and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
HumaNature: One Hour Special #1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special evergreen edition of HumaNature formatted for air: a man in the wilderness searches a lake for a missing boater, a recovering alcoholic s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, KHNS, KSKA and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 3: Pedaling and Paddling
From: Willow Belden
Series: Out There
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What happens when the person you love doesn't love what you do?

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 14:07
Episode 1: Living with the Deer
From: Willow Belden
Series: Out There
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Wyoming naturalist joins game herd, 'becomes' a mule deer

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:04
A park ranger and Buffalo Soldier
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Yosemite National Park ranger Shelton Johnson in uniform as a "Buffalo Soldier."
Shelton Johnson is a ranger at Yosemite National Park. He’s part Cherokee, part African American, and part Seminole. And he’s used his background ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 2
West Nile and Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: Nature and human nature
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, PRX Remix, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 5
Burrowing Owls
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Not all owls hunt at night and nest in trees. Burrowing owls greet the sun from abandoned prairie dog dens. What else makes these tiny birds unique?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Big Bend Gambusia
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Big Bend National Park is home to many rare and endangered species, but the Big Bend gambusia lives particularly close to the edge of extinction. H...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1