Rains will cease and summer’s coming, with predictable challenges to local water supplies. Ann Soule, Water Resource Manager for the city of Sequim, joins Mary Robson to evaluate what’s known about these strange cold weeks, current snowpack, and suggestions for managing during limited rain months. She’s watched that snowpack for over twenty years. (Airdate: May 18, 2022)

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Host Debaran Kelso heads out along the shore with guide Nam Siu of the WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife to talk about our native seaweeds (part 2 of a two part program). (Airdate: May 11, 2022)

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Nam Siu's YouTube channel
Pacific Seaweeds: A Guide to Common Seaweeds of the West Coast
WA State Dept of Natural Resources information about seaweed harvesting

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Host Debaran Kelso heads out along the shore with guide Nam Siu of the WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife to talk about our native seaweeds (part 1 of a two part program). (Airdate: April 27, 2022)

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Nam Siu's YouTube channel
Puget Sound Restoration Fund's Bull Kelp Recovery Program

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Debaran Kelso continues her conversation with Dr. Fred Sharpe about dune restoration and ecology on a field trip to Fort Worden State Park (part 2 of a two part program). (Airdate: July 13, 2022)

Learn more about the Point Wilson Conservation Project.

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Nan Evans and Erik Kingfisher of the Jefferson Land Trust talk about climate resiliency on the north Olympic Peninsula. Longer, drier summers and warmer, wetter winters pose broad threats to the forests, farms, and wildlife habitats. Together Nan and Erik will explore whether current conservation efforts enough? Are these efforts strategically targeted to help benefit biological and human communities? How does science guide us in taking wise conservation actions for the future? Part 2 of a two part program. (Airdate: May 25, 2022)

Learn more about the Jefferson Land Trust and their 100-year vision for conservation.

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Nan Evans and Erik Kingfisher of the Jefferson Land Trust talk about climate resiliency on the north Olympic Peninsula. Longer, drier summers and warmer, wetter winters pose broad threats to the forests, farms, and wildlife habitats. Together Nan and Erik will explore whether current conservation efforts enough? Are these efforts strategically targeted to help benefit biological and human communities? How does science guide us in taking wise conservation actions for the future? Part 1 of a two part program. (Airdate: April 20, 2022)

Learn more about the Jefferson Land Trust and the Land Resilience Study.

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Join host Debaran Kelso on a field trip to the sandy shores of Fort Worden. Dr. Fred Sharpe is our guest to speak about dune restoration in this area and in other locations on the Olympic Peninsula (part 1 of a two part program). (Airdate: June 13, 2022)

Learn more about the Point Wilson Conservation Project. <

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Guest Bob Jepperson from Fidalgo Island relates to Mary Robson the spring progress of fledgling Great Horned Owls as they leave the nest and fly. (Reprise airdate: April 13, 2022)

Visit bobjepperson.com.

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Nan Evans talks with Maggie Baker and Suzy Elbow, this year’s AmeriCorps Service Members who are sponsored by the Friends of Fort Worden. Learn about their care of the parks natural resources, their public education activities, and about the Port Orford Cedars found up near the bunkers this past year. (Airdate: March 23, 2022)

Learn more about the Friends of Fort Worden.

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Ron and Rosemary Sikes invite Nature Now host Debaran Kelso and recorder Meg Amos to their backyard wildlife sanctuary in Port Townsend to discuss how to create and improve wildlife habitat in our own backyards (part 2 of a two part program). (Airdate: March 16, 2022)

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