Nature Now

(Reprise airdate: July 23, 2025) Wander the woods with Nature Now’s Mary Robson and Gary Bullock for summer bird activities, especially fledglings.

(Airdate: July 16, 2025) Please join Nature Now as we learn more about the owls of Bainbridge Island! Host Debaran Kelso and field recorder Meg Amos meet with guest Jamie Acker in his own backyard wildlife sanctuary, to speak about his work studying owls near his home on Bainbridge Island for the past 25 years.

(Reprise airdate: July 9, 2025) Please join us as we continue our field trip to explore the world of wild edible and medicinal plants! Debaran Kelso hosts this edition of Nature Now, as we are invited to the wild gardens of herbalist Nancy Slick to speak about some of her favorite medicinal plants. Part 2 of a two part program.

(Reprise airdate: July 2, 2025) Please join us on a field trip to explore the world of wild edible and medicinal plants! Debaran Kelso hosts this edition of Nature Now, as we are invited to the wild gardens of herbalist Nancy Slick to speak about some of her favorite medicinal plants. Part 1 of a two part program.

(Reprise airdate: June 25, 2025) Nourish your curiosity about the natural world around us. Join Nan Evans as she talks with Kelly Brenner, Seattle author, artist and urban naturalist, about projects and experiments you can do around your home to explore the hidden worlds of life that share our spaces.

(Airdate: June 18, 2025) Marine mammals, especially the cetaceans, are a popular focus for wildlife viewing throughout the world. So, which species live here in the Salish Sea, and how are they doing? Local cetaceans include harbor porpoises, Dall’s porpoises, Pacific white-sided dolphins, minke whales, gray whales, humpback, and killer whales. Other local marine mammals include Steller sea lions, California sea lions, northern elephant seals, harbor seals, and sea otters.

(Airdate: June 11, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso this week as we speak with founder Linda Landkammer and naturalist Dr. Fred Sharpe out in the garden, celebrating the lovely Kul Kah Han Native Plant Garden on a gorgeous summer afternoon!

(Airdate: June 4, 2025) Nan Evans talks with Thor Hanson, biologist and author, to explore the wonders of biodiversity. Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth from genes and species to ecosystems. Biodiversity encompasses the interactions between all living things, animals (including humans), plants, fungi, microorganisms and the environments they inhabit and communities they create. Biodiversity has been attributed with holding the world together.

(Reprise Airdate: May 21, 2025) Nature Now host Jackie Canterbury talks with Bev McNeil about the nature of Anderson Lake State Park. The park encompasses 496 acres of land with a diversity of plant communities, wetlands, and forests. The name bears the family name of an earlier owner, Amanda Anderson. The land was purchased in 1947. The park now offers trails that pass along the lake and through grassy marches, patches of salmonberries and huckleberries and through forests of young and older western red cedar and Douglas-fir.

(Reprise airdate: May 14, 2025) 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.