Natural Resource Conservation

Valley Forge NH Park: The history of the Valley Forge landscape is given. The clearing of trees by the Continental Army is discussed as well as the reforestation efforts of the late 1800’s, early 1900’s, and today.

Derek Patton, Assistant Professor in the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of Southern Mississippi, discusses a National Science Foundation grant to advance the science of stone preservation.

Guy Sternberg, a certified arborist and retired landscape architect, discusses how he rallied to save a historic tree in Kewanee, Illinois.

Richard Bash of the Clatsop tribe encourages visitors to make all efforts to preserve national parks.

Listen as a park ranger briefly discusses some mining history of the park and how the values have shifted to instead preserving the park and its beauty.

Glacier National Park: Why is it called “Lunch” Creek? What type of revegetation effort is going on at Lunch Creek? Listen in for the answers to these questions.

North Cascades National Park: In this episode an environmental protection specialist shares his experience when he first visited the North Cascades. He then explains the Wilderness Act and shares what one might find when entering a designated Wilderness Area.

Natural Laboratory: What exactly are you pumping into your car each week? What is the relationship between fossils that took hundreds of millions of years to form and the products you consume daily? Tune in for answers to these and other related questions.