(First airdate: February 14, 2020) Host Scott Wilson explores the launch of Port Townsend’s wooden boat renaissance in the mid-1970s with sailmaker extraordinaire Carol Hasse. This is part 1 of a two-part conversation.
Podcasts
Salmon Boundaries
(First airdate February 20, 2020) Today on Coastal Café, we speak with Will Patric, executive director of Rivers Without Borders – the Port Townsend-based organization that focuses on protecting the wild trans-boundary watersheds of Southeast Alaska and Northwest British Columbia.
Nature Now #450
Living with Large Animals
(First airdate: February 19, 2020) Host Mary Robson and Darrell Smith discuss living near large wild animals.
Joanne Clarkson
(First airdate: February 18, 2020) Host Sheila Bender speaks with Port Townsend poet Joanne Clarkson in the KPTZ studio, and discusses how her poetry, in her words, “invokes the beauty of many things.”
Families, Fisherman, Fins and Fun!
(First airdate: February 18, 2020) Hannah Seligmann and Jim Pearson of the NOSC (North Olympic Salmon Coalition) converse with host Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can about the focus of their organization, habitat restoration and education on the North Olympic Peninsula. NOSC, one of 14 Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups, offers multiple opportunities to get outside with their on-going site projects and more.
Compass for the Week of 2/17/2020
We take you inside an eclectic, authentic watering hole off the beaten path in Chimacum. It’s a place where everyone feels free to be their authentic selves.
Nature Now #449
E-Bird: Hi-Tech Bird Watching
(First airdate: February 12, 2020) Host Nan Evans explores the popular E-Bird tool with Monica Fletcher, a local master of birdwatching. Discover a new world of birding. Learn how to get and use this phone app and learn how to participate in important citizen science projects.
#151 Bob Saring, American Legion
(First airdate: February 11, 2020) THE AMERICAN LEGION’S ROLE IN P.T. Our Town host Maryanne McNellis interviews Bob Saring, general manager of the American Legion Post in downtown Port Townsend. The Legion is a veterans’ club with a bar, pool table and a lot of games. But it’s much more than that. The Legion also provides a home for a winter homeless shelter which it runs together with several church groups. It awards scholarships and provides an honor guard – complete with a bugler playing taps – when a local vet dies. Our post is one of the oldest in the state and just celebrated its 100th anniversary. Bob talks about recent upgrades to the hall itself, which houses local events ranging from the Kinetic Sculpture Race to R2AK (Race to Alaska). He outlines ambitious plans for the next 100 years.
Compass for the Week of 2/10/2020
After four years of mulling it over, the U.S. Navy has decided a controversial proposal to greatly expand its secretive dark-of-the-night training for Navy SEALs in Washington state parks and public marinas will have no significant environmental impact which, barring a public outcry, will probably clear the way for implementation of the plan. This week on the Compass, we talk with the executive director of the Navy watchdog group Sound Defense Alliance about the plan.
Nature Now #448
Toxic Phytoplankon
(First airdate: February 5, 2020) Nature Now Host Nan Evans and Jamestown S’Klallam environmental biologist Neil Harrington talk about harmful phytoplankton in the Salish Sea, recent research findings, and the public health efforts to protect us all.
