Welcome to Naturally Speaking, a podcast from Nature Up North.  Nature Up North is an environmental education and outreach project based at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. In this first episode, host Kayla Edmunds, intern with Nature Up North, talks with Nature Up North director Dr. Erika Barthelmess and Nature Up North project manager Madison O'Shea about the Nature Up North project and our desire to start a new podcast series.  Listeners will learn about the history and mission of Nature Up North, place-based environmental education, community science projects, and what we hope to do with our podcast, Naturally Speaking.  We also give an overview of what's to come and highlight some of the goings-on at Nature Up North to take place in the next month.