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The Naturalist Introduction: Tales from Montauk Part 2 (22:08)
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The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, Bernie Wides, Carol A. Butler, Carol went to Eagle Fest last weekend, the Eagle has been a US icon, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, kayaking ban in Newton Creek, the lighthouse at Mountauk park, Long Shore Current, pitch pine, bonsai trees, limbs come out crookedly, coniferous tree, keeps its needles all year round, pitch pine needs fire to help it regenerate, pitch pine has two mechanisms for survival, some cones depends on fire to open up, can also grow new chutes from its trunk,Holly Trees (23:08)
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New York City Trees, tree walks, published by the City of New York's Parks & Recreation Department, standardized taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, Linnaean taxonomy, Holly trees, has been simple of life's persistence for centuries, keeps its leaves for three years, blood red berries, photosynthesis, American holly is the only tree that grows naturally and keeps its leaves in the winter, Japanese black pines, blackwood forrests, cultivars, development of commercial holly, wood isnt good because the branches aren't straight,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
The Naturalist: Tales from Montauk (19:58)
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The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network, Cochon 555, www.cochon555.com, Bernie Wides, Carol A. Butler, American Littoral Society, Mountak Manner, Long Island is a fish shaped island, Mountauk is at the very end of the tip out East, paumanok, North Fork is Orient Point, South Fork is Mountauk, Long Island Sound, harbor seals, numbers have gone down due to hunting, there's less pollution in the water, they are making a comeback, women used to wear seal skin coats, ore, valuable mineral found in the ground, Feldspar, the Northeast was covered by an ice sheet thousands of years ago, glaciers,Wildlife on the Eastern Tip of Long Island (16:42)
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moon snails, the devils purse, mermaids purse, skates, manta rays, egg case, sex life of rock weed, sexual algae, where does sand come from?, boulders and rocks, Eastern Parkway, glacial rock, you can find seals in New York Harbor now, deer feces, deer are a hazard in Long Island, they carry ticks, seals mostly live in inter tidal zones,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
"We've started a culture of hop-heads but we kinda wanted to move away from that."
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