Carl Kasell's Legacy Touched N.H.
Carl Kasell was a fixture on NHPR airwaves for many years until his semi-retirement in 2009. In June, 2011 the former newscaster, who died Tuesday , came to New Hampshire to speak about his tenure at...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Do Mosquitos Like You Better?
We often think of the “food chain” in the natural world in linear terms: this eats that, which in turn, is eaten by the other. But today’s subject proves that chain is a little more like a web. The...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Garter Snakes
So, this partnership among NHPR, New Hampshire Audubon and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is one in which bird and tree knowledge is well represented. But much of the state’s...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Celebrate the Plague of Black Flies
Imagine yourself on a walk in the woods. It’s early spring; tiny tree flowers are clinging to branches. A nearby stream quietly gurgles and peepers pepper the air. Idyllic, right? Then, all of a...
View ArticleSomething Wild: N.H.'s Wildest Neighborhood ... Peatlands
Here at Something Wild we love all things wild (even blackflies !) but sometimes it can be helpful to look beyond a single species and consider how many species interact within a given environment. In...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Smell that Olfactory
We know…we’ve been remiss, and it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room. Something Wild, as you know, is a chance to take a closer look at the wildlife, ecosystems and marvelous phenomena you...
View ArticleSomething Wild: What Makes Summer Thunderstorms Happen?
Today’s topic is thunderstorms. Summer in NH brings those triple H days – hazy, hot, and humid! On days like those there’s nothing more welcome than the arrival of a late-afternoon thunderstorm,...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Porcupines Aren't As Prickly As You Thought
The porcupine’s only real predator is the fisher. It takes a tough critter to eat a porcupine. Even coyotes, one of the state's apex predators, instinctually knows to leave porcupines alone – a trait...
View ArticleSomething Wild: First Bitten
First Bitten is our periodic series at Something Wild where we study the people who study nature, and what set them on the path to do that. And this time around our two subjects under the microscope...
View ArticleSomething Wild: What Happens to Trees in Drought?
The specter of drought is often raised in these early days of summer. And for good reason, though water levels have returned to normal around the New Hampshire, state officials are still warning...
View ArticleConversations with Poet Donald Hall, New Hampshire's Adopted Native Son
Donald Hall passed away at Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot this weekend. Though not from the Granite State originally, the one-time U.S. Poet Laureate is widely accepted as a New Hampshire institution. Hall...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Ravens are Intelligent Opportunists
In this part of the country the Corvid family includes blue jays, gray jays, crows, and ravens. And ravens – Corvus corax – are the smartest of this intelligent family, actually their brain to body...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Of Death, Beauty and Vultures
Outside/In host Sam Evans-Brown, joined us in the field this week at Something Wild. We were in Sutton, NH tracking some turkey vulture chicks, because Dave discovered some vultures living among the...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Eye of the Turtle
New Hampshire benefits from the presence of seven different turtle species. This week on Something Wild we’re taking a closer look at two of the most common species you can find all over the state:...
View ArticleSomething Wild: A Timber Harvest
We don't often think of trees when we speak of "harvest." Corn is harvested; apples, tomatoes, squash are the fruits of the annual autumnal rite which is the province of our farmers. Maybe it's because...
View Article10 Things You Didn't Know About NHPR
AS NHPR celebrates its 37 anniversary, we thought we'd share with you 10 items from the station archives that you may not have known about. In no particular order: 1. NHPR, now a network of 14...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Crickets Herald the Autumn
Something Wild fan, Michael Carrier, wrote in recently, he said “If possible could you do a program about identifying some of the more common sounds you hear at dusk or night in New Hampshire.” Yeah,...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Tidepools Aren't a Walk on the Beach
Labor Day weekend is often summer’s last hurrah – or at least our last chance to participate in those uniquely summer pastimes. So we thought we’d go out with some sun, surf and a nice breeze by...
View ArticleSomething Wild: International Treaties Aren't Always About Trade
Kirk Dorsey wanted to be an ornithologist, so he went to Cornell University. “But I was not a particularly good student at ornithology…all the biology classes. But I was taking history classes for...
View ArticleSomething Wild: Terns Thriving on Isles of Shoals
We started the day on Appledore Island, just outside Portsmouth Harbor. The Shoals Marine Lab, resident there, traces its history back to 1928. Among the biologists spending the summer there this year...
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