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The September 24th show featured a conversation with Connor Goff, we talked about Sitka bird, birding in Sitka, around Alaska and beyond.
If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose.
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The September 10th show featured a conversation with Matt Muir. We spoke about how iNaturalist, and the community of enthusiasts it’s drawn togehter,
has inspired, motivated, and otherwise supported our naturalist journey. Matt also spoke about his current big year efforts, and the people he’s met and naturalized with along the way.
Matt’s big year journal on iNaturalist
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The August 27th show featured a conversation with Kitty LaBounty. We spoke about mushrooming, fall colors, learning about plants through gardening (including using native plants), visiting national parks, and more.
Links to things mentioned in the show:
Subpar Parks
Alaska Native Plant Society
If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose.
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The August 13th show featured a conversation with Starling Birch, videographer and mountain adventurer. We talked about the pleasure and pain of adventuring into the mountains. We also considered the motivations that drive us to put ourselves in often unpleasant and potentially regretful circumstances when exploring the challenging landscape that surrounds us in Sitka.
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The July 16th show featured a conversation with Matt Bracken. We spoke about his time in Southeast Alaska as the research he’s worked on, including growing up in Petersburg, and returning each summer over the past decade to continue studies investigating marine biodiversity, especially in the intertidal zones.
If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose.
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The May 21st show featured a conversation with Andy Szabo, Liah McPherson, and Dana Bloch. This conversation was originally slated to air in early April shortly after I recorded it, but due to technical issues it did not air at that time, so I re-recorded my opening and used this conversation for this week’s show.
Andy is director of the Alaska Whale Foundation. Liah and Dana are graduate students studying whales. They were in town working on a project to measure body conditio ..read more
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The July 2nd show featured a conversation with Rich McCLear. A long-time Sitka resident, in recent years Rich has taken to going for a daily walk with a camera. We spoke about his history with Sitka, and how the regular walks and the intention to take pictures has impact his experience and perspective of the places he visits.
If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose.
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The June 18th show featured a conversation with Britta Jensen. Originally recorded and aired last fall, in this conversation we spoke about efforts to better understand the eruptive of the Mt. Edgecumbe volcanic field by studying the tephra/ash deposits in the area.
If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose.
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The May 7th show featured recordings of many common Sitka bird songs, and pointers for learning to recognize which species is singing them.
If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose.
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The April 23rd show featured a conversation with Laura Kaltenstein. We spoke about which birds nest where in the Sitka and shared stories of nests we’ve found over the years.
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