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Nature Now #429
Lucas Hart on Forage Fish, Part 1

(First airdate: September 18, 2019) Host Debaran Kelso speaks with Lucas Hart, Director of the NW Straits Commission, about their current projects. Part 1 of the two part program airs this week, and focuses on forage fish.

Nature Now #428
Plastic Trash in the Ocean

(Reprise airdate: September 11, 2019) Nan Evans visits with Janine Boire, Executive Director of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center to talk about plastic pollution in the oceans.

Nature Now #427
Bats and Carnivores

(First airdate: September 4, 2019) Mary Robson talks with wildlife experts Lorna and Darrell Smith about identifying bats and teaching about carnivores.

Nature Now #425
Wolves in Washington

(First airdate: August 21, 2019) Mary Robson interviews wildlife biologists Lorna and Darrell Smith about the difficulties of protecting wolf populations, and other factors influencing the survival of ‘heritage’ carnivores.

Nature Now #424
Endangered Butterflies

(Reprise airdate: August 14, 2019) Debaran Kelso hosts a rebroadcast of show #207 “Endangered Butterflies and Prairie Restoration” with host Kate Dwyer and guest Ted Thomas, senior ecologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Nature Now #422
Unseen Life in the Oceans, Part 2

(Reprise airdate: July 31, 2019) Dr. Virginia Armbrust, Director of the University of Washington School of Oceonography, joins host Nan Evans to talk about the weird world of microscopic organisms that populate the world’s oceans, and why we should know about them and even care.

Nature Now #421
PT Marine Science Center’s Intertidal Citizen Science Project

(First airdate: July 24, 2019) Nan Evans talks with Betsy Carlson, Citizen Science Coordinator at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, and Michael Siddel, Americorps volunteer and the Citizen Science Lab Educator, about the ongoing efforts of citizen scientists to learn more about the intertidal habitats along our shores.