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<itunes:summary>NCPR provides locally-produced news stories from around the Adirondack and North Country regions of New York State, as well as Western Vermont, and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.</itunes:summary>
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<title>Natural Selections: Passenger Pigeons</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/3060/20130425/natural-selections-passenger-pigeons</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 25, 2013) Once so numerous they darkened the sky for days while migrating, passenger pigeons arrived in this region in early May each year. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley remember this once ubiquitous species wiped out by human hunting in the nineteenth century. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/3060/20130425/natural-selections-passenger-pigeons">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Once so numerous they darkened the sky for days while migrating, passenger pigeons arrived in this region in early May each year. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley remember this once ubiquitous species wiped out by human hunting in the nineteenth century. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/3060/20130425/natural-selections-passenger-pigeons">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:45</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>passenger pigeon, extinction, ornithology, birds, wildlife, nature, natselect, [loc:44.4386100 -74.2530600], photolead, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Natural Selections: Unusual pollinators</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21820/20130418/natural-selections-unusual-pollinators</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 18, 2013) Everyone is familiar with how bees and insects distribute pollen from one flower to another, but that&apos;s not the only way to get the job done. Some night-blooming plants are pollinated by bats, when bright floral colors are invisible. And hummingbirds might just get their nectar without picking up any pollen. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley discuss the unusual strategies some plants can use to attract and hold the interest of the unusual animals that pollinate them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21820/20130418/natural-selections-unusual-pollinators">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Natural Selections</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Everyone is familiar with how bees and insects distribute pollen from one flower to another, but that&apos;s not the only way to get the job done. Some night-blooming plants are pollinated by bats, when bright floral colors are invisible. And hummingbirds might just get their nectar without picking up any pollen. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley discuss the unusual strategies some plants can use to attract and hold the interest of the unusual animals that pollinate them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21820/20130418/natural-selections-unusual-pollinators">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:58</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>natselect, nature, pollination, topstory, photolead, [loc:44.4383629 -74.2525981]</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Natural Selections: Leaf Cutter Ants</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13502/20130411/natural-selections-leaf-cutter-ants</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 11, 2013) Why do Leaf Cutter Ants cut leaves? Nesting material, food? As Martha Foley and Curt Stager explain, these ants are composting. What they actually eat grows on the rotting leaves. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13502/20130411/natural-selections-leaf-cutter-ants">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Natural Selections</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why do Leaf Cutter Ants cut leaves? Nesting material, food? As Martha Foley and Curt Stager explain, these ants are composting. What they actually eat grows on the rotting leaves. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13502/20130411/natural-selections-leaf-cutter-ants">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:48</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>natselect, ants, insects, nature, [loc:44.4386100 -74.2530600], topstory, photolead, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Natural Selections: Exploding Flowers</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7139/20130328/natural-selections-exploding-flowers</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 28, 2013) Some flowers open quickly, and some are even spring-loaded—like the venus fly trap—but the floral deployment speed record belongs to the lowly dogwood relative, the bunchberry, which when triggered opens its tiny four-petal bloom in less than a millisecond. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss flower power. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7139/20130328/natural-selections-exploding-flowers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Natural Selections</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Some flowers open quickly, and some are even spring-loaded—like the venus fly trap—but the floral deployment speed record belongs to the lowly dogwood relative, the bunchberry, which when triggered opens its tiny four-petal bloom in less than a millisecond. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss flower power. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7139/20130328/natural-selections-exploding-flowers">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:49</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>flower, nature, natselect, botany, [loc:44.4386658 -74.2526581], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>A passion for pastels</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21691/20130326/a-passion-for-pastels</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 26, 2013) After years as a poet, sculptor, weaver and painter, West Potsdam artist Becky Harblin says she only recently discovered what may well be her real passion for art: pastels.    Originally from Peru, in the Champlain Valley, Harblin has traveled and lived around the country.   She worked for The New Yorker magazine in the 80&apos;s but decided that a rural life was more fitting to her.  She and her husband, Don, raise a small flock of sheep, veggies and herbs on their farm near Potsdam.  Her love for plants and the environment has led her to embrace shamanism.Harblin studied art in college, where she says she dabbled in pastels.  It was just last summer that she  took the brightly colored sticks of pure pigment more seriously.  Todd Moe stopped by her home studio. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21691/20130326/a-passion-for-pastels">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Todd Moe</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[After years as a poet, sculptor, weaver and painter, West Potsdam artist Becky Harblin says she only recently discovered what may well be her real passion for art: pastels.    Originally from Peru, in the Champlain Valley, Harblin has traveled and lived around the country.   She worked for The New Yorker magazine in the 80&apos;s but decided that a rural life was more fitting to her.  She and her husband, Don, raise a small flock of sheep, veggies and herbs on their farm near Potsdam.  Her love for plants and the environment has led her to embrace shamanism.Harblin studied art in college, where she says she dabbled in pastels.  It was just last summer that she  took the brightly colored sticks of pure pigment more seriously.  Todd Moe stopped by her home studio. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21691/20130326/a-passion-for-pastels">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>10:28</itunes:duration>
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<title>Natural Selections: Dandelions</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7314/20130321/natural-selections-dandelions</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 21, 2013) Martha Foley mows her lawn just before the dandelions go to seed, hoping to keep their numbers down, but there&apos;s another whole crop right behind—why? Dr. Curt Stager dug into the story and found the answer in the sex life—or lack thereof—of dandelions. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7314/20130321/natural-selections-dandelions">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Natural Selections</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Martha Foley mows her lawn just before the dandelions go to seed, hoping to keep their numbers down, but there&apos;s another whole crop right behind—why? Dr. Curt Stager dug into the story and found the answer in the sex life—or lack thereof—of dandelions. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7314/20130321/natural-selections-dandelions">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>05:00</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>dandelion, cloning, botany, nature, natselect, [loc:44.4386658 -74.2526581], topstory, photolead</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Natural Selections: Ancient Adirondacks</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/6067/20130314/natural-selections-ancient-adirondacks</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 14, 2013) &quot;Old as the hills&quot; is a relative term. The Adirondacks may be relatively young mountains, but their distinctive grey granite, anorthosite, originated 1.1 billion ago, so deep in the earth&apos;s crust that only continental collision could have formed it. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley discuss Adirondack geology. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/6067/20130314/natural-selections-ancient-adirondacks">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Natural Selections</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&quot;Old as the hills&quot; is a relative term. The Adirondacks may be relatively young mountains, but their distinctive grey granite, anorthosite, originated 1.1 billion ago, so deep in the earth&apos;s crust that only continental collision could have formed it. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley discuss Adirondack geology. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/6067/20130314/natural-selections-ancient-adirondacks">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>05:47</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>adirondacks, geology, moutain, granite, anorthosite, nature, natselect, [loc:44.4386658 -74.2526581], topstory, photolead, environment</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Story Traveler: The Regular Life of Wild Things</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21552/20130305/story-traveler-the-regular-life-of-wild-things</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 5, 2013) For a long-time, wild turkeys were everywhere on &quot;Turtle Island,&quot; then for a long time, they were nearly extinct. They&apos;re back again in the Hudson Valley where storyteller Gioia Timpanelli lives, and they&apos;re big and beautiful, and somehow essential. Story Traveler is the here and now of unscripted storytelling with stories from everywhere in the world—stories for the heart to hear and the mind to imagine. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21552/20130305/story-traveler-the-regular-life-of-wild-things">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Gioia Timpanelli</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For a long-time, wild turkeys were everywhere on &quot;Turtle Island,&quot; then for a long time, they were nearly extinct. They&apos;re back again in the Hudson Valley where storyteller Gioia Timpanelli lives, and they&apos;re big and beautiful, and somehow essential. Story Traveler is the here and now of unscripted storytelling with stories from everywhere in the world—stories for the heart to hear and the mind to imagine. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21552/20130305/story-traveler-the-regular-life-of-wild-things">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>05:00</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>arts, nature, storytraveler, wordch, storytelling, photolead, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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