(Airdate: October 1, 2025) Please join Nature Now this week as we explore the world of science books for kids! Debaran Kelso speaks with celebrated author Melissa Stewart about her upcoming book From Bam! to Burp! A Carbon Atom’s Never-Ending Journey Through Space and Time and YOU!
(Airdate: September 24, 2025) We are all familiar with bees. Did you know that honey bee colonies are highly organized, complex, with a rigid caste system, and whose individuals depend on their societal organization to survive. Join Jackie Canterbury as she talks with Colleen Ebken, a beekeeper on Marrowstone Island, about her bee colonies and the wonderful world of bees in general.
(Airdate: September 17, 2025) Nan Evans talks with local Port Townsend mushroom
enthusiasts, Helen Kolff and Jessica Latourelle. They explore attitudes, myths, truths,
and edibility of mushrooms. Did you know what we see are only the fruiting bodies of
extensive mycelial networks? Or, that they are not plants and they perform critical
ecosystem functions. And, why are some people fascinated with fungi?
(Airdate: September 10, 2025) Join Nan Evans as she talks with Lynda Mapes, longtime environmental reporter for The Seattle Times, about how culture, economics and science have fundamentally changed how we use the timber resources and perceive our relationship with forests. Much of the conversation is driven by Mapes’ most recent book, The Trees are Speaking: Dispaches from the Salmon Forest. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation.
(Airdate: September 3, 2025) Nan Evans talks with Lynda Mapes, longtime environmental
reporter for The Seattle Times, about how culture, economics and science have
fundamentally changed how we use the timber resources and perceive our relationship
with forests. Much of the conversation is driven by Mapes’ most recent book, The Trees
are Speaking: Dispaches from the Salmon Forest.
(Reprise airdate: August 27, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we speak with Scott Brinton, co-founder and executive director of the CedarRoot School, about tracking and its importance to wildlife conservation. This is part 1 of a two-part program.
(Reprise airdate: August 20, 2025) Dungeness crabs are hugely important in the Pacific Northwest – commercially, recreationally, ecologically, and traditionally. Yet scientists and resource managers don’t know how big the population is, how and why it varies over time, or how significant natural and human caused factors can impact these populations. Join Nan Evans to explore how new and cooperative efforts (and some very simple techniques) are trying to better understand the dynamic Dungeness crab populations.
(Airdate: August 13, 2025) Jackie Canterbury talks with Karin Ertl about the Salish Sea Guillemot Network and the Pigeon Guillemots that uniquely nest beneath the Hood Canal bridge. Pigeon Guillemot surveys began in 2004 on Whidbey Island. As of 2024, surveys are taking place in 8 different regions with about 250 volunteers! Our Jefferson County surveys began in 2021.
(Airdate: August 6, 2025) Please join host Debaran Kelso and field recorder Meg Amos for Part 2 of our show learning more about the owls of Bainbridge Island! Owl expert Jamie Acker has invited us to his backyard wildlife sanctuary on Bainbridge Island, where he has been studying owls for the past 25 years. Part 2 of a two part program.
(Reprise airdate: July 30, 2025) Come with Nan Evans to the forests of Chimacum Ridge as she talks with Erik and Jen Kingfisher about their family’s experiences living at the foot of the Ridge and how strong relationships with place were built. Jen calls the Ridge “not spectacular, but perfect”. Hear about the ecological features of the Ridge and the vision of it becoming a treasured community forest in perpetuity for the enjoyment of all members of our community.
