Matt Fidler
ProducerMatt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.
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Please enjoy our conversation from 2023 with Leif Richardson, Conservation Biologist with the Xerces Society, sharing so much about conservation, about bumble bees, about the nation-wide Bumble Bee Atlas projects generally, and his spearheading of the California Bumble Bee Atlas.
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A Chico advocate for the mentally ill tells her son’s story. Also, the final chapter in Rex Ogle’s memoir trilogy tells his struggle of being unhoused after his father discovered he was gay.
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Host Dave Schlom visits with one of the world's foremost experts on sharks, Dr. David Ebert.
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Cultivating Place: California Native Plant Week: CNPS Rare Plant Program & Inventory with Aaron SimsThe third week of April is California Native Plant week, this year being celebrated by the California Native Plant Society via 8 days of action in honor and protection of our native plant diversity.
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Dillon Carroll pens Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War), a book that examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers.
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Host Dave Schlom investigates the world of vultures and condors with the Director of the UC Davis California Raptor Center, Michelle Hawkins.
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Cultivating Place is joined in this by Dr. Susan Wethington, research scientist, Program Developer and Executive Director of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network, based in Arizona.
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Bruce Haak has spent 50 years studying wild raptors. Chico ornithologist Roger Lederer tells us about the birds of Bidwell Park.
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