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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
This week, we revisit Producer Emma Needham's interview with Bazile Panek to learn more about his relationship to fire and what he thinks are the causes behind Minnesota's increasing risk for devastating wildfires. [Read Transcript...]
In 1907, Eloise Butler, along with other botanists, asked for and received a portion of Minneapolis' Glenwood Park to set aside for native wildflowers. The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary became the first public native wildflower park in the nation. [Read Transcript...]
In 1900, Josephine Tilden, a 31-year-old botany professor from the University of Minnesota, purchased three acres of remote Vancouver coastline. For a brief time, the Minnesota Seaside Station became an outdoor classroom for Midwest college students to study the varied and bizarre flora and fauna living in the windswept tidepools. [Read Transcript...]
This week, a tick-borne illness that creates a rare meat allergy is raising new concerns. And we’ll look at how to stay safe while enjoying Minnesota’s outdoors and waterways. [Read Transcript...]
