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The Nature Conservancy is proud to present the Nature Stories audio podcast. Each week, Nature Stories will bring you interesting and unexpected tales of people's connections with the natural world in a high-quality audio download. Primary Format : Public Radio Also Listed as: Public Radio City : Arlington State/Province : VA Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: Warning: mysql_fetch_object(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /usr/home/sites/www.podcastdirectory.com/web/podcasts/index.php on line 218 User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: nature | Storytelling | Radio | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Nature Stories Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Nature Stories Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Nature Stories Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Ecuador's Melting Ice Caps (produced by Pauline Bartolone and Felicia Mello) The story of an Andean community¿s response to a disappeared glacier. Produced by Pauline Bartolone and Felicia Mello for Living on Earth. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frogs On the Road (produced by Jay Allison) Amphibians making a dangerous migration across a roadway and the humans who try to protect them. A vintage piece from the 1980s from producer, Jay Allison. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goat Auction in North Carolina (produced by Alix Blair) Curtis Ring auctions off all his goats. Produced by Alix Blair. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tour de Coops (produced by Julie Sabatier for Destination DIY) Urban backyard chicken farmers give a guided tour of their coops. Produced by Julie Sabatier for Destination DIY. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fighting the Water (produced by Melissa Robbins for Homelands Productions) How the United Houma Nation of southern Louisiana is confronting an environmental and cultural crisis: the loss of their traditional lands to coastal erosion and the resulting threat to their viability as a people. Produced by Melissa Robbins for Homelands Productions in 2005. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Werner The Wormer (produced by Zachary Barr at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies) Digging for worms on the tidal mud flats of mid-coastal Maine. Produced by Zachary Barr at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Perfect Photo (produced by Jake Warga) Inspired by an article in National Geographic, producer Jake Warga travels to Lalibella, Ethiopia to take the perfect picture. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canary Song Trials (produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister with Long Haul Productions) American Singer Canaries battle it out for best-song-in-show in the Canary Song Trials in Livonia, Detroit. Produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister with Long Haul Productions. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Disappearing Lake (produced by Jessica Partnow) Eastern Ethiopia¿s Lake Haramaya disappeared in less than 10 years. Produced by Jessica Partnow with funding from the Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toxic Trail: Rails to Trails Meets Superfund (produced by Guy Hand) The EPA builds a beautiful bike trail in North Idaho to contain heavy metals and promote tourism. Produced in 2004 by Guy Hand. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "And I Walked..." Stories From the Border (produced by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oelher) How the thirst for the American dream translates into a literal thirst for the scores of illegal immigrants. Produced by Ann Hepperman and Kara Oelher. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hurricane (produced by Daniel Whaley with Youth Radio Vermont) A category four hurricane and how it changed the life of this fourteen year old. Produced by Daniel Whaley with Youth Radio Vermont. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rwanda Gorillas (produced by Jake Warga) Trekking to see and hear the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Produced by Jake Warga. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of Lata (produced by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens with Outer Voices) The revival of traditional Polynesian sailing in the Solomon Islands. Produced by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens with Outer Voices. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sad Demise of the Passenger Pigeon (produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister) The passenger pigeon was once the most common species in North America - now it¿s extinct. A look at how the bird disappeared. Produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister with Long Haul Productions. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sisters of St. Gertrude's Garden (produced by Barrett Golding with Hearing Voices) In Cottonwood, Idaho the Sisters of St. Gertrude¿s commune with the land. Produced by Barrett Golding with Hearing Voices. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heat (produced by Jeff Rice with Hearing Voices) What the desert heat can do. Produced by Jeff Rice with Hearing Voices Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spare Time (produced by Sarah Reynolds) Sam Eaton has been lobstering for 73 years and has no plans to retire any time soon. Produced by Sarah Reynolds with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nachusa Grasslands (produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister) The Nachusa Grasslands in north-central Illinois is being restored by a spirited group of volunteers. They manage large parcels of land - gathering seed, planting, weeding and conducting prescribed fires. Produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister with Long Haul Productions. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cypress Knees (produced by Jay Allison) This week, a visit with the late king of cypress knees in Florida and some reflections on the beauty and wounds of life. A vintage piece from the 1990¿s by producer, Jay Allison. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Son of A Coalminer (produced by Josh Fleming) In Letcher County, KY coal mining is the best job there is for many people. Youth producer, Josh Fleming wonders if it¿s best for him. Made with Appalshop and the Appalachian Media Institute. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Water Walker (produced by Jessica Partnow) In many parts of the world, women and children walk for hours each day to fetch water. Producer Jessica Partnow brings us this audio portrait of a water walker in Ethiopia. Made with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hiking In Australia (produced by Jake Warga) Producer and reluctant travel writer Jake Warga shares his adventures in the Australian outback. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon (produced by Curt Olson) The Beargrease race in Duluth, Minnesota draws hundreds of world-class sled dog teams from around the globe. Produced by Curt Olson with Hearing Voices. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elbow Room (produced by Elizabeth Arnold) How much land does one person need? Elizabeth Arnold, who lives in Alaska, goes in search of even more wide-open space - and ends up with a case of claustrophbia in Outer Mongolia. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Desert Blooms (produced by Jeff Rice) Charles Bowden on the ectasy of Selenicereus plerantus, which offers its bloom on just one night - the hottest and blackest of the year. Produced by Jeff Rice. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith in Fisherman (produced by Neenah Ellis) These things are clear about Maine fishermen: They keep secrets. And they distrust scientists. Unless, of course, you¿re Ted Ames, who is both fisherman and scientist. Produced by Neenah Ellis. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stone by Stone (produced by Kim Normanton) For twenty years, rain or shine, Andrew Loudon has been building stone walls in the Lake District. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Graun em i Laif (produced by Skye Rohde) After a rootless childhood and a hopscotch youth, Skye Rohde settles down in Papua New Guinea and discovers what it¿s like to belong to the land. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wild Crafting (produced by Emily Botein) For more than 25 years, Nova Kim and Les Hook have made a living by foraging the woods of Northern Vermont. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Close to Nature as I Can (produced by Carmen Delzell with Emily Botein) Carmen Delzell, a U.S. expatriate based in rural Mexico, reflects on what sent her ¿back to the land¿ and what keeps her there. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buffalo Soldier (produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister) Sam Hurst wanted to bring the Buffalo back to the Great Plains. But, as it turned out, the Great Plains didn¿t welcome Sam Hurst. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tired of Travel Porn (produced by Bill McKibben with Emily Botein) Walking home after a storm, through the ¿hemlock woods in Otter Creek,¿ Bill McKibben reflects on the beauty of his own landscape, close to home. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Ain't No Walk In The Park (produced by Natalie Edwards) Natalie Edwards likes cement. And hates grass, bugs, dirt, and trees. Listen as Natalie attempts her own self-described ¿intervention¿ in Brooklyn¿s Prospect Park. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On Beaver Pond (produced by Dean Olsher) Up in the Berkshires, there is an old house on a little plot of wetlands. Dean Olsher took one look at it and knew it was home. Unfortunately, so did the beavers. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Kill a Coqui (produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister) Worldwide frog populations are dropping at an alarming rate - but not fast enough, say some sleepless Hawaiians. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cry Me A River (produced by the Kitchen Sisters) A portrait of pioneering river activists Ken Sleight and Katie Lee, which explores their dramatic efforts to save wild rivers, the rise of the environmental movement and the power of individuals to make a difference. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thirty Miles Till Water (produced by Jeff Rice) The Sonoran desert, with it¿s three-digit temperatures and miles between water, is an unlikely place to sustain life. But for Charles Bowden, it¿s an oasis. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Grease Trails (produced by Teresa Goff) The Grease Trails, a centuries-old network of paths through Northwestern Canada, are the cultural arteries of the First Nations peoples. Once on the brink of vanishing, the trails are being resurrected by a new generation. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Portrait of Writer Barry Lopez (produced by Sandy Tolan with Elizabeth Chur) Writer Barry Lopez has traveled the world. This profile takes us to his homeground in Oregon, where he writes, still using an IBM selectric. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Footprints (produced by Jon Miller) As a young trail builder, Jon Miller decided to ¿take only pictures, leave only footprints.¿ Twenty years later, he returns to discover what a big footprint he¿s left. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing Sinaloa (produced by Emily Botein) For fourteen years, Luis Urrea was a clumsy barrio boy. Then, while on a trip to Mexico¿s Sinaloa State, he got his first pair of glasses - and discovered a new kind of grace. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chopping Down, Cropping Up (produced by James Spring) Take a motorcycle trip into a hidden corner of the Mexican economy - the Sierra Madre, where the forests are coming down and the marijuana is cropping up. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biking The Back Roads (produced by Barrett Golding with Emily Botein) Biking the western back roads past rivers, reservations, and road kill, Barrett Golding finds the time to see how it all connects. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speaking Through the Land (produced by Sherre Delys) What does a journalist do when she can¿t ask questions? Yingiya Guyula takes Sherre Delys to his homeland and teaches her a thing or two about the proper time and place for a story. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circling the Center of Creation (produced by Scott Carrier) Mount Kailash is one of the world¿s most venerated - and least visited - holy sites. Walking its circuit alongside pilgrims, yaks and yogis, Scott Carrier finds out why. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Window in Time (produced by Kara Oehler & Ann Hepperman) For many, the local natural history museum is as close as they ever get to nature. Take a tour of the diorama hall at the American Museum of Natural History with senior project manager, Steve Quinn. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nature Junkies (produced by Sean Cole) The revolution will not be televised. But nature will be. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 90 Degrees North (produced by Elizabeth Arnold) At the top of the planet, unmoored ice speeds over the North Pole. Elizabeth Arnold heads north and tries to set foot on it. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holding His Ground (produced by jesikah maria ross) Through every season, 97-year-old rancher Attilio Genasci tends to his cattle and his alpine valley. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob's Prairie (produced by Kelly McEvers) The story of one man¿s prairie and his work to let it flourish long after he dies. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Route (produced by Chris Brookes) What is it like to be exiled from a landscape that you can see from your window? When his legs fail him, Chris Brookes finds out. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cry Me A River (produced by the Kitchen Sisters) A portrait of pioneering river activist Mark DuBois, who tried to save a river by chaining himself to a rock. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spooked in the Woods (produced by Jonathan Goldstein) Armed with only a tent, a pack of hot dogs and an eleven-year old girl, Jonathan Goldstein confronts his fear of the woods. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Bear Rainforest (produced by Elizabeth Arnold) Out in the Great Bear Rainforest, Elizabeth Arnold discovers that, though she may be ready for the ¿Great¿, and for the ¿Rainforest¿, she is not so ready for the ¿Bear.¿ Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sockeye Spectacular (produced by John Ryan) An audio postcard from the foothills of the Canadian Rockies with thousands of spawning sockeye salmon. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Are You Gonna Do With 400 Fish (produced by Grant Fuller) Ice. Ice shacks. Ice fisherman. Oh, and smelt. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yellowstone Geysers (produced by Barrett Golding) A Nature Stories favorite - Yellowstone's former geyser guy, Rick Hutchinson, gives us a tour of the park's thermal wonders. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ripple Rock Meets Its Doom (produced by John Ryan) The greatest hazard to navigation on Canada¿s west coast - then and now. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website She-wood & Cypress - The Mississippi River Rats (produced by Martha Hawley with Radio Netherlands) Learn about River Rats - those who lived along the banks of the Mississippi River and survived off of what the river gave them. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waterman (produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister with Long Haul Productions) Meet Roger Muggli - manager of an irrigation system in drought-stricken eastern Montana. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sun Tunnels (produced by Scott Carrier with Hearing Voices) Celebrate the summer solstice in a concrete sculpture in the Utah desert. Download MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflections of Fathers (produced by Jay Allison) A son¿s love for his father and his bugs. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buffalo Nation (produced by Martha Hawley with Radio Netherlands) Ties are being renewed between the tribal people of the Great Plains of North American and the sacred animal which they view as a relative. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Salmonlands (produced by Barbara Bernstein with Media Project) "If you take the salmon out of the river, you impoverish the entire eco-system." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Boat Trip Through Borneo (produced by Anne Blair Gould with Radio Netherlands) "The swamp forest itself is almost impenetrable which is why I had to go by boat around this massive piece of forest." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Schubert: Lighthouse Keeper (produced by Emily Botein and Joe Richman) "You can look out the front door and see for 15 miles." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Humpback Whale Song (produced by Heidi Chang) "I don't think there's any question that the most unique thing about the humpback whales is their song." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fiddleheading (produced by Rob Rosenthal) "It's a ritual of spring...Fiddleheads are just a green that has a taste pretty much all their own." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Resurrecting the Zapara (produced by Alan Weisman and Nancy Hand with Homeland Productions) "To preserve their life inside the forest, Zapara people are now faced with learning the life outside of it." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inuit (produced by Michelle Ernsting with Radio Netherlands) "When I think back on it, the idea of Sila actually describes a lot more than the sky." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Copper River Journey (produced by Guy Hand) "The Copper River, although it's threatened, is one of the most pristine waterways in the world." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocco From the Bronx (produced by Adam Arlington) "You know where Co-op City is? I planted tomatoes there during the war." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Other Dead Sea (produced by Rachel Dornhelm) "If you close your eyes where the Aral Sea used to be and listen to the wind whipping sand over the brush it sounds like waves breaking over a shore..." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entrepreneur (produced by Jesse Dukes) "I'm not really a full time work digger...but it's better than going working for someone at minimum wage." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Stone Heads (produced by Jack Chance with Hearing Voices) "The thing about Easter Island is that it's in the middle of nowhere. A thousand miles from the nearest anything." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blackfish (produced by Barrett Golding with Hearing Voices) "Each family group or pod of killer whales has its own unique set of sounds - a repertoire of very distinctive calls." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grey Ghost (produced by Allan Couckell) "I thought this is big country in here. What chance do I have of seeing a bird that's probably only one or two left in this area. So, it's going to be a matter of patience." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Angel's Landing (produced by Scott Carrier) "It feels like being inside a huge body. The canyon walls are the rib cage spread open and Angel's Landing is like the heart." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wildlife Returns To The City (produced by Kristin Espeland "The only urban wildlife New Yorkers ten to think about is pigeons and rats...but what once seemed like a wall between the city and nature is dissolving into a thin, permeable veil." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winged Wildlife in the Arctic (produced by Jeff Rice with Hearing Voices) "It kind of takes you back to your primal self in a way...I've never felt that way in any other country I've been into." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cobb Ice Harvest (produced by Whit Richardson) "Ice cubes the size of eighteen inch television sets float in the dark patch of exposed water." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cobb Ice Harvest (produced by Whit Richardson) "Ice cubes the size of eighteen inch television sets float in the dark patch of exposed water." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cobb Ice Harvest (produced by Whit Richardson) "Ice cubes the size of eighteen inch television sets float in the dark patch of exposed water." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cobb Ice Harvest (produced by Whit Richardson) "Ice cubes the size of eighteen inch television sets float in the dark patch of exposed water." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sweetgrass Road (produced by David Kattenburg) "The earth is our first mother. So, to join the industrial system is to declare war against our own mother." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sweetgrass Road (produced by David Kattenburg) "Even the rocks, when we pray to the great spirit we say teach me the lessons hidden under every leaf and rock." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mojave Road (produced by Ben Adair) "One hundred human empires will rise and fall in the time it takes Death Valley to notice our passing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Endless Winter (produced by Gregory Warner) "Paul has skiied through blizards, icy rain, wind chills of 70 below. Paul's skiied through Regan, Bush, Clinton and Bush." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Bosnian Christmas Carol (produced by Jonathan Groubert) "It was dark, it was cold, and it was starting to snow." 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gigging: A Cherokee Elder Spears for his Supper (by Brian Bull) "You take what the creek gives you and be glad with it." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Painting a Day (produced by Lu Olkowski) "I like to make portraits of individual days." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paddling Merrymeeting Bay with Franklin Burroughs (produced by Rob Rosenthal) "I think a canoe is about my favorite means of locomotion. Probably because it's sedentary." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wild Morels on the Yellowstone (produced by Scott Carrier) "I have a friend who hunts mushrooms in Montana. He called and said, 'It's the spring run-off man. We can borrow a drift boat from my neighbor, go out on the river and look for morels along the shore.'" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yellowstone Geysers “It’s fun feeling the ground shake underneath you when a powerful geyser goes off. Or getting coated by ice in the winter as the wind shifts and the spray of a geyser lands on your coat.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Artist Steve Peters: The Subtle Sounds of Nature (produced by Paul Ingles) "I had set a contact microphone outside the entrance to an anthill of these large red, I think, harvesting ants...and they all came out and swarmed on it." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Runaway Lake (produced by Cally Carswell) He walked in and he said look out the window. And I impatiently said, why? And he said, “You don’t live on a lake anymore.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rocks at Rock Bottom (produced by Hillary Frank) "I was in my own little world of walking and skipping. The stones were just flying. It was an extraordinary night." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chiloe: A bridge too far? (produced by Alan Weisman for Homeland Productions) "The enchantment starts with the crossing...'Arriving by ferry is like going through a magic door to an island like none that exists anywhere else in chile or south america." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leaving the Mountains and Growing up with Coal (produced by the Appalachian Media Institute and Youth Radio) "I'm afraid if I go, I'll never be able to come back" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eating Close to Home (produced by Bill McKibben and Atlantic Public Media) "and the butter tastes better too. But maybe that's because I know it's story." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vaqueros (produced by Erika Solomon for Next Generation Radio) "they give all the credit to John Wayne" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Homesteaders (produced by Karen Brown) "It's a slippery slope. If we used the dryer once we might be lured by the dryer again..." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tongass National Forest Part I (produced by Guy Hand) "Every species of plant and animal...is still here. There's nothing missing here." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Praire Burn Audio Postcard (produced by Mark Brush) I think it kind of looks like a Dr. Seuss story when you burn and it's all black. And then it greens up so quickly..." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goodnight, Frogs, and Good Luck (produced by Kate Trainer for Radio Anyway) "I'm heading home now. I travel through that delicious nocturnal soup of life and the sounds of my fellow beings." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ice Cutting in Vermont (produced by Sarah Yahm) "It's so simple. It's ice, in a box, essentially. And it keeps your food cold." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Catfish Noodling in Oklahoma"(produced by Scott Gurian) the dangers and pleasures of catfish noodling Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Life of New York's Bees (produced by Kate Hinds) urban beekeeping - taste that rooftop honey! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farming the Desert, Drought in Southern Utah, part 2 (produced by Ross Chambless) "It wears on you, you know, just like a steady wind in June. A hot dry wind." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "A Map of the Sea" (produced by Chris Brookes for Homelands Productions) What happens to a fishing community when the fish are gone? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "A Piece of Paradise" (produced by Sean Kelly) communal land ownership in Vanawatu Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Moving the Village" (produced by Gabriel Spitzer) "the land that washed away isn't coming back" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listening to the Private Lives of Wolves (produced by Tom Banse) eavesdropping on wolf conversations in the wild Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website X-town (by Sean Cole) "So in order to go home again I would have to have scuba gear" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listening to the Northern Lights (produced by Barrett Golding for Lost and Found Sound) the sounds of the night sky Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rip, Rift, and Panic: Earthquake Stories of Life and Death Along the Faultlines (produced by Susan Stone) experiences of Earthquake victims along the Pacific Rim Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harvest on Big Rice Lake (produced by the Kitchen Sisters: Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) the rice harvest on the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March of the Salamanders (produced by Adam Allington) salamander migration in western massachusetts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fallen Fruit (produced by Queena Kim for KPCC's Pacific Drift) mapping an alternate geography of Los Angeles with three "public fruit" activists Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lord God Bird (produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister in collaboration with songwriter Sufjan Stevens) The story of the small town of Brinckley, Arkansas and the way it's been affected by the "rediscovery" of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rose Rustling (produced by Queena Kim) a social and cultural history of California through roses Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Sagebrush to Steppe (produced by Hal Cannon and Taki Telonidis) A musical cowboy cultural encounter on the steppes of Mongolia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Sagebrush to Steppe (produced by Hal Cannon) A musical cowboy cultural encounter on the steppes of Mongolia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website