(Airdate: July 29, 2020) Host Mary Robson and guest Christie Lassen of Wild Birds Unlimited review how bird-watching has expanded during the pandemic lockdown.
(Airdate: July 29, 2020) In the second of a set of conversations about the native trees of the Quimper Peninsula, Nan Evans and Erik Kingfisher spend an afternoon in the field looking for and talking about the broad leaf trees – both the deciduous ones and the evergreen broad leafs.
(Airdate: July 15, 2020: Nature Now takes to the field! Host Debaran Kelso meets with ecologist Dr. Geoff Hammerson and sound engineer (& fellow wetland lover!) Nora Petrich for a field trip exploring one of our local wetlands.
(Airdate: July 8, 2020) Nan Evans encores an interview from 2016 when she talked with retired biologist Jim Bodkin about the challenges faced by sea otters as a result of human actions from the historic fur trading industry to massive modern oil spills…and on the hopeful side, about the success of sea otter reintroductions along the west coast of North America in recent decades.
(Airdate: July 1, 2020) Nature Now’s Mary Robson talks with Celeste Dybeck, elder of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the čičməhán Trail, by reviewing its focus on history and the present.
(Airdate: June 24, 2020) We all know that in Washington we live in “The Evergreen State”. In this episode of Nature Now, Nan Evans talks with Erik Kingfisher of the Jefferson Land Trust about the major native conifers we see every day as we walk in our neighborhoods and gaze out our windows.
(Airdate: June 17, 2020) Debaran Kelso speaks with Olympic National Forest’s wildlife biologist Betsy Howell about recent surveys searching for the elusive Pacific marten.
(Airdate: June 10, 2020) Curious about those cute marine mammals that float on their backs, wrapped up in kelp, often with a stone on their chests to crack a tasty sea urchin or crab? Join Nan Evans as she talks with marine mammal scientist, Jim Bodkin, about the biology of sea otters. (This is an encore interview of a program that first aired in May 2016.)
(Airdate: June 4, 2020) Nan Evans talks with local naturalist Ken Wilson about observing the world around us as a naturalist and Ken’s belief that we as humans, are innately, naturally, neurologically, and genetically wired to be naturalists. We can be fascinated and often excited by observing behaviors, attributes and traits in the natural world – using our sensory experiences in the noticing of patterns and variety in the world around us.
(Airdate: May 27, 2020) Ann Soule, Resource Manager for the city of Sequim, talks with Nature Now host Mary Robson. She shares historical and current data about summer water supplies on the Olympic Peninsula.
