Celebrating Wildlife Today: Southern Appalachian Creature Feature (podcasts)

To help kickoff National Wildlife Refuge Week 2012 (October 14-20), The Green Register is promoting U.S. Fish and Wildlife programs that support the Refuge system. One such program is the Southern Appalachian Creature Feature podcasts.

A broadcast partnership between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and WNCW, a public radio station broadcasting from Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina, the “creature feature” is a series of one-minute nature-based stories about emerging issues facing the Southern Appalachians. Topics range from the white-nosed bat syndrome to the local battles to combat invasive plants.

Here are a few of our favorite segments:

Combating Invasive Exotic Plants in the Southern Appalachians. Listen (transcript)

Return of the American Chestnut. Listen (transcript)

Economic Benefits of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Listen (transcript)

Whooping Cranes in Western North Carolina. Listen (transcript)

Grandfather Mountain Crayfish. Listen (transcript)

Box Turtles. Listen (transcript)

You can access the entire Southern Appalachian Creature Feature portfolio of podcasts here.

Photo Credit: Wetland habitat at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, Wisconsin byRyan Hagerty, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

by Pat Byington editor of The Green Register