Sitka Nature Show #144 – Gwen Baluss

Download Radio Show The November 12th show featured a conversation with Gwen Baluss, bird bander with the USFS and current president of the Juneau Audubon Society. She was in Sitka for another year of banding in the Sitka Bird Banding Project, now in its 6th season. We spoke about the project, as well as some … Read more

Sitka Nature Show #143 – Ben Burford

Download Radio Show The October 29th show featured a conversation with Ben Burford, a PhD candidate studying California market squid at Stanford. We spoke primarily about California market squid, their natural history, and some of the interesting questions raised by their presence around Sitka the past couple of years. (Conversation is introduced at 3:10.) K. … Read more

Sitka Nature Show #141 – Bob Armstrong (encore)

Download Radio Show The October 1st show featured a conversation with Bob Armstrong, originally recorded in Spring 2014 and aired in July of that year. The conversation starts about 6 minutes in. Bob has been actively updating his site with photos and videos over the years since this originally aired – it’s an amazing resource … Read more

Sitka Nature Show #140 – Debbie Miller

Download Radio Show The September 17th show featured a conversation with Debbie Miller, a nature writer who has written several books featuring Alaskan natural history subjects. We started the conversation talking about shorebird migration and life history, especially that of the Pacific Golden-Plover (subject of Flight of the Golden Plover: The Amazing Migration Between Hawaii … Read more

Sitka Nature Show #139 – Paul Norwood

Download Radio Show The September 3rd show featured a conversation with Paul Norwood. We spoke about the ‘golden circle’ bicycle trip he and his partner Brooke made from Haines to Skagway, and some of the differences he noticed in vegetation and habitat as they traveled over the mountains and back. Towards the end of the … Read more