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Nature Now Podcast
@naturenow.bsky.social
Presenting eclectic PNW-focused news, insights, and observations about the natural world around us. Produced at KPTZ community radio in Port Townsend, WA.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nature-now/id1696468189
New on the podcast - climbing mountains! Jackie Canterbury speaks with Dave Rugh about his experiences mountain climbing in Washington State.

📷: Above a crevasse on Mt. Rainier, from Dave Rugh

#PNW #mountaineering #hiking
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
New on the podcast - nurse logs! Nan Evans welcomes Carrie Clendaniel to talk about nurse logs in our forests and what the Jefferson Land Trust is doing to increase these incredibly significant ecological systems.

#PNW #ForestFloor
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
New on the podcast - humpback acoustics! Debaran Kelso speaks with Dr. Fred Sharpe whose recent research focuses on aerial whale signals like blows, wheezes, and thrums.

📷: Fred Sharpe

#MarineMammals #MarineLife
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
New on the podcast - birds in winter! Nan Evans talks with Christie Lassen about the behavioral and physiological strategies used by our regional birds during winter.

📷: Wild Birds Unlimited, Inc.

#PNW #birds
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
New on the podcast - harbor porpoises! Nan Evans talks with Dr. Cindy Elliser of Pacific Mammal Research about harbor porpoises, the smallest cetacean found in the Salish Sea.

📷: Cindy Elliser

#PNW #MarineLife #MarineMammals
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
New on the podcast - science for kids! Debaran Kelso speaks with author Melissa Stewart about her upcoming book From Bam! to Burp! A Carbon Atom’s Never-Ending Journey Through Space and Time and YOU.

📷: Debaran Kelso

#kidlit
October 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
New on the podcast - bees! Jackie Canterbury speaks with beekeeper Colleen Ebken about her honey bee colonies and the greater world of bees 🐝

📷: Colleen Ebken

#honeybees #beekeeping
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
New on the podcast - mushroom enthusiasm! Nan Evans talks with Port Townsend mushroom fans Helen Kolff and Jessica Latourelle about attitudes, myths, and edibility of mushrooms.

🍄📷: Jessica Latourelle

#mushroomSky #fungifriends #PNW
September 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
New on the podcast - forests! In a two-part program, Nan Evans talks with Lynda Mapes about the importance of and our relationship with old-growth forests.

📷: Lynda Mapes

#PNW #forest
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
New on the podcast - pigeon guillemots! Jackie Canterbury talks with Karin Ertl about the Salish Sea Guillemot Network and the pigeon guillemots that nest beneath the Hood Canal bridge.

📷: Hillary Smith

#PNW #birds
August 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
New on the podcast - more owls! Debaran Kelso continues the conversation with Jamie Acker in his backyard wildlife sanctuary on Bainbridge Island to learn about his work studying owls near his home.

📷: Northern Saw-whet Owl by Dr. Roger Chou

#PNW #birds
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
New on the podcast - owls! Debaran Kelso visits Jamie Acker in his backyard wildlife sanctuary on Bainbridge Island to speak about his work studying owls near his home.

📷: Jamie banding a barred owl by David Ansley

#PNW #birds
July 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
New on the podcast - marine mammals! Jackie Canterbury speaks with Dave Rugh about the marine mammals that live in the Salish Sea and how they are doing.

📷: Dave Rugh

#PNW #MarineLife #ocean
June 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Want to help study a new method for understanding whale vocalizations?
Help WhaleSETI by participating in the following study to categorize and characterise humpback whale social calls:

whale-seti.eyeqsoft.com/eq/r1/lpauw

#WHALESETI @setiinstitute.bsky.social @whaletalesorg.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New on the podcast - native plants! Debaran Kelso meets with Linda Landkammer and Dr. Fred Sharpe in Chimacum, WA, to see and learn all about the Kul Kah Han Native Plant Garden at H.J. Carroll Park.

#nature #PNW
June 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
New on the podcast - biodiversity! Nan Evans talks with Thor Hanson to explore the wonders and value of biological diversity.

#nature
June 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
When you listen to Nature Now and go into a used book store just to browse 🤷‍♀️
May 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New on the podcast - beautiful birds! Nan Evans speaks with Kerry Tremain about the beauty of his bird photography.

📷: Kerry Tremain

#birds
May 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
New on the podcast - seabird conservation! Debaran Kelso welcomes back seabird expert Peter Harrison joined by his wife Shirley Metz to speak about their joint conservation work.

📷: Shirley Metz and Peter Harrison

#birds
April 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New on the podcast - books and joy! Hosts Debaran Kelso, Nan Evans, and Jackie Canterbury get together in the studio to share their favorite recent reads and top "wish list" books to read this year.

#PNW
April 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
New on the podcast - whales! Jackie Canterbury speaks with Dave Rugh about his work as a NOAA scientist studying the abundance of whales around Alaska.

#PNW #MarineLife #ocean
April 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
New on the podcast - feathers continued! Nan Evans speaks again with Christie Lassen to further explore more fascinating features of feathers.

#nature #birds #PNW
April 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Particpate in whale research!
Want to help study a new method for understanding whale vocalizations?

Humpback whales are master communicators, using everything from brief social calls to complex songs.
April 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
New on the podcast - seabirds! Debaran Kelso welcomes seabird expert Peter Harrison to speak about writing and illustrating his new book, Seabirds: The New Identification Guide.

📷: Meg Amos

#birds
April 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
New on the podcast - feathers! Nan Evans speaks with Christie Lassen to explore feather forms and structures, colors and patterns, and the incredible usefulness and functions of feathers.

#nature #birds #PNW
March 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM