Highland Wonders

Highland Wonders

Okanogan Highlands Alliance

Episodes 21
Avg. Duration 46m
Activity Sporadic
Since Nov 2020
Latest Episode Jan 2025

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About This Podcast

Join Okanogan Highlands Alliance in learning about the ecosystems and wildlife of the Okanogan Highlands of north central Washington! In this podcast, scientists and educators share their stories and knowledge of the natural history of our unique area - the Okanogan Highlands. To learn more about OHA, please visit our website okanoganhighlands.org.

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Recent Episodes

S5E1 We're Lichen It!

Jan 17, 2025 47m

Dr Jessica Allen, lichenologist and cell biologist at the University of California San Diego, has studied lichen all over the world, including in Okanogan County! In the course of 45 fascinating…

S4E3 Eager Beavers

Mar 08, 2024 54m

Our furry, toothy friends, nature’s flat-tailed engineers, the North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) is native throughout this continent, and once populated our region in great numbers. Over the…

S4E2 Birdwatching Is For You (Who Me? Yes, You!)

Feb 13, 2024 19m

This episode arrives just in time for the Great Backyard Bird Count, a worldwide citizen science effort organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Audubon Society and Birds Canada to observe…

S4E1 Grasslands of the Okanogan

Dec 14, 2023 30m

Welcome to Highland Wonders Podcast Season 4!!! We are excited to be back and kicking off the new season with Don Gayton: ecologist, writer, and native grass enthusiast. This episode is sure to push…

S3E5 All About Bears

May 31, 2023 59m

Dr. Bill Gaines, wildlife biologist and Executive Director of the Washington Conservation Science Institute, has been studying wildlife, including (and especially) bears since the late 1980’s and,…

S3E4 Canada Lynx and Home Range Wildlife Research

May 16, 2023 38m

Join us for a refreshingly fun episode, full of natural history, scientific research, and the developing story of Home Range Wildlife Research, whose mission is “to advance wildlife conservation by…

S3E3 Gifts of the Crow

Apr 05, 2023 1h 3m

Dr John Marzluff, professor at the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, shares a captivating review of the life history, the anatomy, the culture of corvids,…

S3E2 The Saga of Washington's Wildlife

Feb 19, 2023 59m

Welcome to a fast-paced, information-packed, part-spoken musical tour of Washington’s diverse wildlife and habitats! Ken Bevis, wildlife biologist with the Washington Department of Natural Resources…

S3E1 Sculpted By Ice

Dec 16, 2022 53m

Kicking off the 3rd season of the Highland Wonders Podcast we are joined by Dr. Karl Lillquist, geography professor from Central Washington University, who has a special connection to the Okanogan…

S2E6 Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)

May 11, 2022 48m

Amelia Marchand, of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation, joins OHA to share her experiences and perspectives on traditional knowledge, or teachings, and the role of ecological knowledge within the bigger…

S2E5 Beaver Believers: The Next Generation (Part 1)

Apr 13, 2022 38m

This special episode features many voices! The Tonasket Elementary School 5th Grade teamed up with OHA and Sarah Koenigsberg, who is an award-winning film-maker, educator, and, most importantly,…

S2E4 The World Needs More Birders

Feb 16, 2022 46m

Are you interested in learning more about birds? Are you looking for resources to help you learn to identify birds by sight and sound? Are you interested in contributing your bird observations to…

S2E3 Islands in the Ice: Nunataks

Feb 04, 2022 47m

Nunatak: an Inuit word meaning a mountain peak jutting up through a glacier. A nunatak might not be a hospitable place to spend a few thousand years, but exposed rocky mountaintops are sometimes all…

S2E3 Okanogan Ice Islands: Nunataks

Jan 05, 2022 4m Trailer

Okanogan Highlands Alliance (OHA) is excited to announce an online Highland Wonders educational event as well as podcast episode, featuring local educator, naturalist, and botanist, George Thornton…

S2E2 From the Okanogan to the Sea

Dec 07, 2021 47m

In this interview-style episode, Lynda Mapes of The Seattle Times joins OHA in discussing her newest book, Orcas: Shared Waters, Shared Home. From Tonasket to the Salish Sea, our ecosystems are…

S2E1 Wild Mushrooms of the Okanogan

Nov 09, 2021 46m

Fungi, often only recognized as slimy masters of decay, make up a whole kingdom of life on Earth. They engage in all kinds of relationships with other species, they can be the size of football…

S1E5 Washington's Not-So-Common Loons

Feb 23, 2021 48m

Who would have thought that our very own Okanogan Highlands is a great place to view one of the world’s most charismatic and endearing bird species? Although not many common loons nest in Washington…

S1E4 The Secret Life of Bats

Jan 29, 2021 40m

How do you feel when someone starts talking about bats? Warm and fuzzy? Uneasy? Disgusted? Cautiously curious? In the fourth episode of the Highland Wonders Podcast, The Secret Life of Bats, Roger…

S1E3 Bighorn Sheep of the Okanogan

Dec 29, 2020 1h

OHA is delighted to ring in the new year with Episode 3 of the Highland Wonders Podcast: Bighorn Sheep of the Okanogan. In this hour-long episode, Jeff Heinlen of the Washington Department of Fish…

S1E2 Grouse of the Okanogan

Nov 27, 2020 37m

Learn a little bit about Okanogan Highlands Alliance and a lot about the grouse of the world, with special focus on the grouse species that inhabit Okanogan County,  WA, with Dr. Michael Schroeder.…

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