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<title>Using music to save an endangered tree</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 10, 2013) Clarinetist Michele Von Haugg is on a mission to save a very important tree for a lot of musicians. She grew up near Saratoga Springs and is the founder of Clarinets for Conservation. Von Haugg will give a concert in Plattsburgh on Saturday night at the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts. Todd Moe talks with her about efforts to save the African Blackwood Tree, or &apos;Mpingo, in Tanzania. The wood is used to make musical instruments, like the clarinet.Over a the last few years, Von Haugg and other clarinetists, have raised money to travel to Africa to teach music and plant hundreds of trees.  She says the &apos;Mpingo wood is durable and very valuable. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21771/20130410/using-music-to-save-an-endangered-tree">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A passion for pastels</title>
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<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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<title>The science and art of pruning apple trees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 25, 2013) Pruning apple trees can bring trepidation to gardeners, but pruning improves the tree&apos;s vigor and fruit production. If you have an apple tree in your backyard, now is the time to start thinking about pulling out the pruners.  Todd Moe talks with horticulturist Amy Ivy, who says now is a great time to start planning for pruning in March and April.  She has some tips for best way to prune apple trees - and why you should take the time to prune. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21509/20130225/the-science-and-art-of-pruning-apple-trees">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Natural Selections: Tree growth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 6, 2012) Trees may live for hundreds, thousands of years, but there are limits on their growth. Trees can only move so much water, and only to a certain height. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss the hydrology of trees. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7893/20120906/natural-selections-tree-growth">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Maple syrup: a mud season harvest</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 15, 2011) The pails are up and the sap is flowing.  Weather plays a large part in the making of maple syrup.  Last year’s early spring ended the syrup production season abruptly in some parts of the state.  Entering this year’s maple syrup season, which usually runs from early March to mid-April, maple producers are eager to put last year behind them.  Todd Moe spoke with a couple of syrup producers who say conditions are ideal for the start of the North Country’s sweetest season. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17309/20110315/maple-syrup-a-mud-season-harvest">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Creating a bit of spring indoors, even in winter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 14, 2011) It&apos;s still too early for serious pruning outdoors.  But horticulturist Amy Ivy has some tips for cutting younger branches from spring-flowering trees and forcing them into early bloom indoors, long before the trees outside are beginning to open their buds. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17153/20110214/creating-a-bit-of-spring-indoors-even-in-winter">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Time to think about trees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 15, 2010) Martha Foley and horticulturist Amy Ivy have tips for nurturing  small seedlings this spring. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15234/20100215/time-to-think-about-trees">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>O Christmas tree</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 22, 2009) It&apos;s the holidays... which for some of us means time to deck the halls with boughs of holly and, oh yeah, pick out a Christmas tree. We sent reporter Jennifer Guerra to find out which tree is greener - real or artificial. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14933/20091222/o-christmas-tree">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Inside purple boxes, a trap for an invader</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 13, 2009) If you’ve driven almost anywhere in the North Country this summer, you’ve probably seen those purple boxes hanging by the side of the road.  They’re traps for an invasive bug that threatens to decimate New York’s ash trees, about 8% of the state’s forests.  The emerald ash borer was found in New York two months ago, in the western New York town of Randolph.  Federal and state environment officials destroyed that stand of ash trees.  And they’ve hung more than 5,000 of the purple traps, half in the North Country, to see if they find any more emerald ash borers.  So far, they haven’t.  Russell Martin is a forest technician for the Department of Environmental Conservation.  He lives in Newton Falls and he’s logged more than 12,000 miles in a Chevy Venture van setting and checking on the purple traps.  David Sommerstein joined Martin on an expedition off Route 11 between Canton and Potsdam. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14152/20090813/inside-purple-boxes-a-trap-for-an-invader">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Ash-chewing beetle joins the list of invasives hitting New York</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 22, 2009) Last week, New York’s Conservation Department announced that yet another invasive species has arrived in the state. This one, the Emerald ash borer, could be devastating.  Millions of trees have already been ravaged by the tiny, green beetle, from Michigan to southern Canada.  Brian Mann spoke with Robert Davies, head of the DEC Division of Lands and Forests. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13804/20090622/ash-chewing-beetle-joins-the-list-of-invasives-hitting-new-york">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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