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At least once a week, I’ll bring you the very best of America’s spectacular world of nature — from birds to mammals, to reptiles and amphibians. From soaring mountains to endless plains, from rugged coastlines to rivers and streams.
Each episode will feature an expert guest — a ranger, a researcher, a birder, or an adventurer — someone who has seen what we want to see and been where we want to go.
Episodes
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E84 Lynne Trulio – Burrowing Owls: Underground Homes, Rattlesnake Tricks & the Fight to Survive 🦉
Send us Fan Mail What kind of owl lives underground, shares its neighborhood with ground squirrels, and teaches its chicks to sound like rattlesnakes? Meet the…
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E83 Naturally Scott Adventures – Purple Martins: A Million Birds on Bomb Island 🐦🌅
Send us Fan Mail Imagine a tiny, 12-acre island in the middle of a South Carolina lake. Now imagine one million birds gathering there to spend the night…
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E82 Sy Montgomery – Giant Manta Rays: Saving the Angels of the Sea 🌊
Send us Fan Mail Imagine being 100 feet beneath the ocean's surface, clinging to rocks as a powerful current threatens to sweep you away. Visibility is poor…
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E81 Naturally Scott Adventures – Elephant Seals: 6,000-Pound Giants of the California Coast 🦭🌊
Send us Fan Mail Imagine standing just a few feet from a 6,000-pound marine mammal—three tons of muscle, blubber, and attitude. Now imagine watching two of…
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E80 John Squires – Canada Lynx, Wolverines & a Lifetime in the Wild
Send us Fan Mail Title E80 John Squires – Canada Lynx, Wolverines & a Lifetime in the Wild Buzzsprout Description Canada Lynx and wolverines are two of North…
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E79 Naturally Scott Adventures – Sandhill Cranes: A Million Birds on the Platte
Send us Fan Mail Every March, one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in North America takes place along a relatively short stretch of Nebraska’s Platte River…
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E78 Jane Rodgers – Joshua Tree: Protecting a Desert in a Changing World 🌵🏜️
Send us Fan Mail Joshua Tree National Park sits at the meeting point of two deserts, welcomes roughly three million visitors a year, and protects a landscape…
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E77 Naturally Scott Adventures – Wild Burros of Oatman: Where Burros Rule Route 66 🫏🏜️
Send us Fan Mail Along historic Route 66 in the Arizona desert sits the tiny town of Oatman—a former gold-mining community where the most famous residents have…
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E76 Amy Tan – Backyard Birds, Art & Finding Wonder Close to Home 🐦🎨
Send us Fan Mail Amy Tan is best known as the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club. But in recent years, another passion has taken over much of her…
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E75 Naturally Scott Adventures – California Condors: Giants of the Grand Canyon 🦅🏜️
Send us Fan Mail With a wingspan approaching 10 feet, the California Condor is a bird you don't simply see—you experience. In this edition of Naturally Scott…
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E74 John Koprowski – Squirrels: Tiny Athletes, Brilliant Survivors & Backyard Geniuses 🐿️🌳
Send us Fan Mail Squirrels raid our bird feeders, bury thousands of nuts, leap between trees, and somehow seem to outsmart nearly every obstacle we put in…
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E73 Naturally Scott Adventures – Burrowing Owls: Florida’s Tiny Underground Raptors 🦉🌴
Send us Fan Mail Owls are usually creatures of forests, trees, and darkness. Burrowing Owls break just about every one of those rules. In this edition of…
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E72 John Ford – The Secret Cultures of Killer Whales 🐋
Send us Fan Mail Killer whales—or orcas—are among the most recognizable animals on Earth. But beneath those black-and-white markings are remarkably complex…
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E71 Naturally Scott Adventures – 20 Million Bats: The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth 🦇🌅e
Send us Fan Mail What could possibly draw someone to Texas in the middle of summer? Twenty million bats. In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott…
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E70 Jason Bittel – Grizzlies, Porcupines & the Animals You Thought You Knew 🐻🦔
Send us Fan Mail What if everything you thought you knew about some of North America's most familiar animals was wrong? In this episode of Naturally Scott…
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E69 Naturally Scott Adventures – Wild Mustangs of Nevada: The Spirit of the American West 🐎🏜️
Send us Fan Mail There may be no animal more closely tied to the spirit of the American West than the wild Mustang. In this edition of Naturally Scott…
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E68 Dr. Virginia Edgcomb – Hydrothermal Vents, Ocean Microbes & Life in Earth’s Most Extreme Places 🌋🌊
Send us Fan Mail What if the most important life in the ocean is almost completely invisible? In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with…
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E67 Naturally Scott Adventures – Florida Manatees: Gentle Giants of Crystal River 🐋🌿
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, where Scott Harris takes you into the field to experience some of North America's…
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E66 Scott Weidensaul – The Return of the Oystercatcher & Stories of Hope for Birds 🐦🌎
Send us Fan Mail Award-winning author, ornithologist, and conservationist Scott Weidensaul returns to Naturally Scott to discuss his inspiring new book, The…
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E65 Naturally Scott Adventures – Alligators, Big Cypress & Florida’s Living Dinosaurs 🐊🌿
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, where Scott Harris takes you into the field to experience some of North America's…
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E64 George Archibald – Dancing with Whooping Cranes & Saving the World's Rarest Birds 🏗️🦩
Send us Fan Mail Few people have done more to save cranes than George Archibald. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with the co-founder…
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E63 Naturally Scott Adventures – Colonial Spanish Mustangs & the Wild Horses of Corolla 🐎🌊
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, where Scott Harris takes you into the field to experience some of North America's…
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E62 Jessica Ware – Dragonflies, Ancient Flight & the Secret World of Insects! 🪰🌎
Send us Fan Mail Dragonflies are older than dinosaurs, can migrate across oceans, and spend most of their lives underwater. In this fascinating and…
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E61 Naturally Scott Adventures – One Million Snow Geese! 🕊️❄️
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the very first edition of Naturally Scott Adventures — a new series where Scott Harris takes you directly into the field to…
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E60 Zach Steinhauser – One Million Purple Martins & South Carolina’s Greatest Wildlife SpectacleUntitled Episode
Send us Fan Mail What does it feel like to sit beneath a sky filled with a million birds? In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris is joined by…
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E59 Matt Forister – Butterflies, Climate Change & the Hidden Crisis Facing Insects
Send us Fan Mail Butterflies are beautiful. They are also disappearing. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with University of Nevada…
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E58 Wade Crowfoot – Water, Wildfire & the Future of Conservation in California
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with Wade Crowfoot, Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, for a…
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E57 — Women in Birding: A Conversation with Sy Montgomery, Debi Shearwater & Lynn Scarlett 🐦
Send us Fan Mail This episode is a first for Naturally Scott — a panel conversation. Scott Harris brings together three remarkable voices — Sy Montgomery, Debi…
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E56 Kimberly Kaufman — The Biggest Week in American Birding & the Magic of Migration 🐦🌎
Send us Fan Mail Every spring, billions of birds move across North America — and for a brief moment, one place becomes the center of it all. In this episode of…
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E55 Denver Holt — Snowy Owls, Field Research & 35 Years on the Arctic Tundra! 🦉❄️
Send us Fan Mail Few people understand owls like Denver Holt. As the founder of the Owl Research Institute, Denver has spent nearly four decades studying owls…
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E54 — Debi Shearwater: Pelagics, Seabirds & a Life at Sea 🌊🐦
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with Debi Shearwater — one of the most iconic figures in seabirding and pelagic birding…
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E53 — Keith Hackland: Birding the Rio Grande Valley from the Alamo Inn
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with Keith Hackland, owner of the Alamo Inn B&B, Gear and Tours, and one of the best-known…
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E52 — Bryan Bedrosian: Raptors, Research, and Real Conservation
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with raptor biologist Bryan Bedrosian, Conservation Director at the Teton Raptor Center…
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E51 — John Adams: Inside Biosphere 2
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with John Adams, Deputy Director and COO of Biosphere 2, for a conversation about one of…
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E50 — Chad Nelson: Protecting Oceans, Waves, and Beaches
Send us Fan Mail In this 50th episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with Chad Nelson, CEO of the Surfrider Foundation, to talk about a coastal…
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E49 — Elizabeth Gray: Bending the Bird Curve
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with Elizabeth Gray, CEO of the National Audubon Society, for a wide-ranging conversation…
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E48 — Emily Fairfax: Beavers, Water, and Wildfire Resilience
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with ecohydrologist Emily Fairfax of the University of Minnesota to talk about an animal…
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E47 — Peter Stangel: Managing Forests for People and Wildlife
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with Peter Stangel of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities to talk about…
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E46 — David Gessner: Vacation with a Purpose
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with author David Gessner, a writer who never wanted to be called a nature writer — and…
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E45 — John Goodell: Falconry isn’t about control — it’s about partnership.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with John Goodell, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Archives of Falconry, to…
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E44 — Scott Black: Honey bees aren’t the story — native pollinators are.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with Scott Black, Executive Director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation…
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E43 — Pete Malinowski | Rebuilding New York Harbor, One Oyster at a Time
Send us Fan Mail New York Harbor is one of the most storied waterways in the world, but for generations it was also one of the most damaged. Long before…
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E42 — Dr. Jodi Hilty: Rewilding at Scale from Yellowstone to Yukon
Send us Fan Mail Rewilding isn’t about nostalgia — it’s about scale. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with Dr. Jodi Hilty, President and…
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E41 — John Calambokidis: Whales, Science, and the Cost of Knowing
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with John Calambokidis, one of the world’s leading cetacean researchers and the co-founder…
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E40 — Lisa T. Ballance: Dolphins, Tuna, and the Whales We’ve Never Seen
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris is joined by Lisa T. Ballance, Director of the Marine Mammal Institute, for a wide-ranging…
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E39 — Jack Humphrey: Rewilding America, Wolves, Jaguars & the Case for Half the Earth
Send us Fan Mail What would it take to truly rewild North America? In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with Jack Humphrey of the…
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E38 Peter Pyle — Molt, Feathers & the Hidden Science of Birds
Send us Fan Mail From growing up in Hawai‘i and Washington, D.C. to spending decades on the Farallon Islands, Peter Pyle has lived at the intersection of…
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E37 – Kenn Kaufman – Conservation, Art, and the Joy of Paying Attention
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Scott sits down with one of the most influential naturalists of our time: Kenn Kaufman. From hitchhiking across North America…
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E36 — Dr. John van Wyhe: Charles Darwin, Myths, Reality & the Birth of Evolution
Send us Fan Mail Today, I’m joined by Dr. John van Wyhe, historian of science at the National University of Singapore and one of the world’s leading experts on…
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E35 — Dr. Christine Webb: Rethinking Human Superiority in The Arrogant Ape
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with primatologist and author Dr. Christine Webb to explore the ideas behind her…
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E34 – Michael Goergen — Saving the American Chestnut, Genetics, Hope & the Future of America’s Forests 🌰🌳
Send us Fan Mail In E34, Scott sits down with Michael Goergen, President & CEO of the American Chestnut Foundation, for a powerful and deeply hopeful…
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E33 – Chris Parish — Raptors, Condors, Lead-Free Revolutions & The Future of Conservation 🦅🌍
Send us Fan Mail In E33, Scott sits down with Chris Parish, President & CEO of The Peregrine Fund, for one of the most wide-ranging and compelling…
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E32 – Steve Mietz — Saving Redwoods, Rebuilding Forests & Restoring Hope 🌲🔥
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Scott sits down with Steve Mietz, President & CEO of Save the Redwoods League, for an extraordinary conversation about…
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E31 Taylor Butz — Whales, Wild Places & Life on the Ocean’s Edge 🌊🐋
Send us Fan Mail From the Inside Passage of Alaska to the gray-whale nurseries of Baja and the volcanic shores of the Galápagos, expedition leader Taylor Butz…
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E30 Dr. Jerry Lorenz — Flamingos, Everglades & the Fight to Save Florida’s Wild Heart 🦩🌿
Send us Fan Mail For more than three decades, Dr. Jerry Lorenz has been a voice for the Everglades — a scientist, teacher, and lifelong birder who helped lead…
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E29 Sophie Osborn — Feather Trails, Falcons & The Fight to Save Endangered Birds 🦅🌍
Send us Fan Mail Sophie Osborn never expected to spend her life saving birds. With degrees in French literature and international relations, she seemed…
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E28 Susie Spikol — Fairies, Forest Magic & the Wild Imagination of Childhood ✨🌿
Send us Fan Mail Susie Spikol is an author, naturalist, and lifelong believer in wonder — a woman who bridges the world of science and story with grace and…
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E27 Cherryl Connally — Birds, Balance & Finding Wonder in the Everyday 🌿🕊️
Send us Fan Mail Cherryl Connally is a lifelong naturalist, birder, and educator who has spent decades helping people slow down, look closer, and rediscover…
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E26 Doug Peacock — Grizzlies, Wilderness & The Courage to Walk Alone 🐻🌲
Send us Fan Mail Doug Peacock has lived a life few could imagine — from serving as a Green Beret medic in Vietnam, to spending decades alone among grizzlies in…
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E25 Al Batt — Stories, Squirrels & the Sacred Humor of Nature 🐿️📖
Send us Fan Mail Some people see the natural world. Others listen to it. Al Batt — writer, speaker, humorist, and lifelong Minnesotan — has spent decades doing…