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In the summer of 1972, I wandered out of a newly rented farm house, looked up, and saw 2 red-tailed hawks soaring over woods and pasture.

Podcast · By WDRT · American English · Official site

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Sep 22, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

    September 22nd, 2026 (opens the original)

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    More from The View from Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Un natural World, by Carl Safina, we are in the ocean around the islands of Palau, the abundance of life in the reefs at Palau are described beautifully, as only Safina can write, and we meet scientists who study this area. "...Bob says, 'More kinds of corals live right here on this patch than in the entire Caribbean.' Van Woesik amplifies: 'actually there are more species of hard corals growing on the concrete dock at the lab - I've actua

  2. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    September 15th, 2026 (opens the original)

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    Dave Krier speaks with Stanley Temple about the Endangered Species Act and Roadless Rule. How they were originally conceived and implemented, and are now being changed under the current administration.

  3. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    September 8th, 2026 (opens the original)

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    A tropical fishes collecting trip for an aquarium, we travel not to the tropics, but on Long Island, (how could this be in a winter-cold temperate region?) and the icing on this reading is a trip to Palau and the vibrant fishes and reefs there, (and why they do so well). I'm reading The View From Lazy Point by Carl Safina. "...pure sensuous detail, seeing the natural world from a variety of angles..." Newsday

  4. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    September 1st, 2026 (opens the original)

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    We will be standing on the sand at the far eastern point of Long Island, Lazy Point, watching with Carl Safina for the birds coming on the wind from the north, heading south and stopping to feed up on insects and fish , which are in abundance. Reading The View from Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, migration is starting to grow.

  5. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    August 25th, 2026 (opens the original)

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    The last of reading the chapter about S.E. Alaska from The View from Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World by Carl Safina. "...a Thoreau for the twenty-first Century". Enjoy the beauty of his writing. He also wrote Alfie and Me; What Owls know and Humans Believe, Voyage of the Turtle; In Pursuit of Earth's Last Dinosaur, and many children's books. "...luminously evocative".

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