Nature Now

Joe Gaydos of the SeaDoc Society returns to Nature Now to give Nan Evans an update on the sea star wasting disease that decimated the sea star population of the Salish Sea and much of the Pacific Coast in 2013. (Airdate: September 7, 2022)

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We take a field trip to Anderson Lake State Park! Host Debaran Kelso is joined by one of our favorite local naturalists, Dr. Geoff Hammerson, on a late summer wander looking for amphibians and other natural wonders (part 2 of a two part program). (Airdate: September 14, 2022)

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We take a field trip to Anderson Lake State Park! Host Debaran Kelso is joined by one of our favorite local naturalists, Dr. Geoff Hammerson, on a late summer wander looking for amphibians and other natural wonders (part 1 of a two part program). (Airdate: August 31, 2022)

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Birds molt – when and why? Join Mary Robson and guest Christie Lassen to explore the feathery mysteries of molting. (Airdate: August 24, 2022)

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Christie Lassen, with Mary Robson, discusses bird rehabilitation: where and how are injured birds helped locally? (Airdate: July 27, 2022)

Read about the saw-whet owl discovered in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Learn more about Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue.

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Nan Evans and Bob Friel, film maker, writer, naturalist, and adventurer, explore the wild and wonderful world of the Salish Sea (part 2 of a two part program). In this second part, Nan asks Bob to tell her stories of adventures he has had filming the wildlife of the Salish Sea. (Airdate: August 3, 2022)

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Nan Evans and Bob Friel, film maker, writer, naturalist, and adventurer, explore the wild and wonderful world of the Salish Sea (part 1 of a two part program). (Airdate: July 6, 2022)

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Host Nan Evans and super-birder guest Monica Fletcher explore sightings and stories from the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Get inspired by this opportunity to be part of a hemisphere-wide citizen science effort. (Airdate: November 23, 2022)

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If you go into the woods at night, you better go in disguise… What? Tree thieves? It’s a bigger problem than you thought – threats to forest health and ecology, crime and survival, social and community failures, challenges for us all to do things differently. Nan Evans talks with Lyndsie Bourgon, author of a new book on the subject of timber poaching. (Airdate: June 8, 2022)

Learn more about Lyndsie Bourgon.

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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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