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(Airdate: February 12, 2026 – Handyman)

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(Reprise airdate: February 25, 2026) Saving Ourselves and Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder. Are we dimishing our lives of the senses? Nan Evans talks with special guest Richard Louv, author of many books examining the crucial connections between the natural world and human physical, mental, social and even cultural health. Richard Louv first developed the concept of a nature-deficit disorder in his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods. You will be inspired to get yourself and those you love outside to explore, play, watch and listen.

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(Airdate: February 24, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang Province, 50 kilometers east of Turfaan, in a gorge in the Flaming Mountains in a place called Bezeklik. Bezeklik is a Uyghur word for what we call “art gallery.” It was in fact a repository of Buddhist art, and until 1905 it had pretty much been forgotten. The man who rediscovered its treasure was the German archeologist Albert von Le Coq.

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(Airdate: February 23, 2026 – Captain Edward Sims) – Who is Sims Way named for?

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(Airdate: February 23, 2026) Key City Public Theatre, in the persons of actress Maritess Zurbano, Kat Agudo, assistant director, and Gabs Nathanson, stage manager, invite listeners to “I Love You, I Miss You, I’m Glad You’re Gone”. Then, for Empty Bowl Press, Holly Hughes and John Pierce present their recent book, “Waveshock”.

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(Airdate: February 20, 2026) Jim Burke and Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour welcome Laura Tucker, Education and Outreach Specialist with JeffCo Sold Waste, and Phil Sonne, a member of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee. The discussion centers on upcoming changes to Solid Waste and Recycling programs here in Jefferson County, coming up April 1. There is a two-page flyer about these changes in everyone’s electric bill this month, and anyone can access it by going to
jeffersoncountysolidwaste.com/

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KPTZ’s Taylor Clark was joined by Port Townsend Director of Public Works Steve King. We covered the history of the Port Townsend water system, the current lease with the mill, water conservation issues as well as the upcoming process that the city will be doing to adjust water rates for next year. Factoid… the in-stream-flow minimum for the Little Quilcene River is 27 CFS which must be maintained for salmon!

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(Airdate: February 18, 2026) Join Jackie Canterbury as she talks with
Paul Koberstein, an award-winning environmental journalist and the
co-author of the book Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the
Great North American Temperate Rainforest. Join us today as we weave
together the relationship between salmon and our coastal temperate
rainforest. The Pacific Northwest was built on the relationship
between salmon and forests. The big takeaway: salmon don’t just swim
through our forest streams, salmon feed the forests, year after year,
century after century.

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(Airdate: February 17, 2026) We’ve left Turfan’s arbor-lined streets behind and entered a Gobi Desert bordered on the north by the flickering tongues of the flaming mountains, less than a kilometer away. We’ve already noted how Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, had to use a magic fan to blow out the flames in this land of fire before he and his band of fellow pilgrims could continue on to India. We had an easier time….

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(Airdate: February 10, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang province in the oasis of Turfan and we’re touring the sites outside of town.The first site is the area’s most famous. It’s the eroded red slopes of the Flaming Mountains that begin just north of town. On a hot summer day the surface temperature on these mountains exceeds 80 degrees Celsius, hot enough to fry an egg or a monk. Which brings us to another story….

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