(Reprise airdate: June 12, 2024) Join Nan Evans as she talks with scientists and authors, David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, about their recent book What Your Food Ate. This book deepens and broadens that old adage that “we are what we eat” by exploring how the health of soil ecosystems form the roots of a complex dynamic that determines the health of crops, livestock, and ultimately human communities.
(Reprise airdate: June 5, 2024) Nan Evans and Tim Lawson wander around the top of Chimacum Ridge and wonder what various clues reveal about the geological history of the area. For instance, what different stories do Center Valley and Beaver Valley tell about their formation?
(Airdate: May 29, 2024) Nan Evans and Dr. Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens continue to explore the weird world of plankton. Did you know, some plankton can make water go bad? Eutrophication – too much of a good thing. Photosynthesis – A good thing – taking sunlight and producing oxygen, enabling life as we know it. Cyanobacteria – Another good thing – the first photosynthetic creatures on Earth. Cyanobacteria – A good thing gone bad – can produce a wide range of toxins poisoning waters and threatening humans and other animals. Stay out of the water at Anderson Lake!
(Airdate: May 22, 2024) Please join host Debaran Kelso as we delve into the amazing world of secretive wetland birds! Our guest is Cindy Easterson from the Puget Sound Bird Observatory. She is program manager for the Regional Wetland Secretive Bird Monitoring Project, and will share details on this grand new research effort in our region.
(Reprise airdate: May 15, 2024) Please join host Debaran Kelso and guest Dr. Geoff Hammerson as we go on a field trip looking for bird nests (Part 1 of a two-part program),
(Airdate: May 8, 2024) Nan Evans welcomes back Ric Brewer for part two of their “Snail Tales” conversation with a discussion of the native snails and slugs of the Pacific Northwest. Our moist temperate climate is just right for these gastropods (that means “Stomach-Footed). And, for a final conversational treat, consider eating snails (i.e., escargots) on your pizza or pasta.
(Airdate: May 1, 2024) During a 2-mile walk, Nature Now host Jackie Canterbury talks with John Goldwood about the history and nature of Teal Lake near Port Ludlow. As a resident of Port Ludlow, John shares his knowledge about the history and complications of living at the interface between timber country and residential development. He engages us about the Teal Lake trail, the trail system in Port Ludlow, the surrounding forest, the local geology, and the plants and birds of the area.
(Airdate: April 24, 2024) Please join host Debaran Kelso and puma specialist Dr. Mark Elbroch as we continue to explore both mountain lion ecology, and how we might learn to share our world with this large successful predator. This is part 2 of a two-part program.
(Reprise airdate: April 17, 2024) Host Debaran Kelso speaks with special guest Clare Manis Hatler about finding what came to be known as “The Manis Mastodon” on their farm in Sequim in 1977. It’s still one of the most significant archaeological finds in North America!
(Airdate: April 10, 2024) Ancient bacteria, single cells and long strands of strange little plants, plus minute single celled animals and weird fantastical animal larvae – these are the members of the Earth’s massive and hugely important planktonic ecosystems. Come with Nan Evans as she talks with Dr. Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens about this strange world and its significance to global ecology and human well being. Consider eutrophication, the world’s biggest threat to water quality or cyanobacteria and one of the causes of toxic algal blooms such as the ones in our local Andeson Lake.
