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Audio reads of stories from Bay Nature's print and online magazine. We're a nonprofit journalism organization with a mission of helping people deepen their engagement with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.

3 Episodes

Juristac: How Do You Prove the Sanctity of a Landscape?
2/12/2023
26:31
It’s up to a county planning commission to decide if lands sacred to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band are sacred enough to merit protection. If the opinion is no, a sand-and-gravel quarry will likely be developed. By Mark Armao, in Bay Nature's Winter 2023 issue. Read by Victoria Schlesinger. Produced by Kate Golden. Find the story online here. Mark Armao (@markarmao) is a Diné journalist who hails from the high desert in northern Arizona. Now based in California, his recent work has focused on environmental issues facing Indigenous communities. Cover art by Jean LaMarr: Our Ancestors, 2005/2006. Monoprint, 19 ¾ x 15 ¾ inches (overall), 30 x 22 ½ inches (image). Collection of the artist. Cropped.
A Bird Flu Pandemic Like None Before It—By Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright (Winter 2023)
12/31/2022
19:20
The latest bird flu is the deadliest and most infectious one ever to strike Europe or North America, and it's ripping through the Pacific Flyway right now. But it didn't come out of nowhere. Let's not blame the ducks for this one, though. Reported and read by Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright. Produced by Kate Golden (@meownderthal). From Bay Nature's Winter 2023 print issue. Read the story online. Episode art by Joel Sartore. Subscribe to the print magazine Sign up for Bay Nature's newsletter here Twitter @baynature IG @baynaturemagazine Facebook Bay Nature
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A Slime of One's Own, by H.R. Smith (Winter 2023)
12/30/2022
6:17
If you seek a slime mold, look about you. And get out your magnifying glass, if you have one. A short tale of the origins, hungry intelligence, personalities and sexual combinatorial prowess of our primeval cousins the slime molds. By H.R. Smith (@strangerworks). Produced and read by Kate Golden (@meownderthal). From Bay Nature's Winter 2023 print issue. Read the story online. Episode art by Alison Pollack (@marin_mushrooms). Subscribe to the print magazine Sign up for Bay Nature's newsletter here Twitter @baynature IG @baynaturemagazine Facebook Bay Nature

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3 Episodes

Juristac: How Do You Prove the Sanctity of a Landscape?

A Bird Flu Pandemic Like None Before It—By Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright (Winter 2023)

A Slime of One's Own, by H.R. Smith (Winter 2023)