Latest WDRT Podcasts
March 10th, 2026
I’m reading Wrong Tree, Adventures in Wildlife Biology, by Jeff Wilson, published in 2022 by Cornerstone Press in Stevens Point.
We follow Jeff and Terry and Jeff’s son Zach, to the coastal plain of Hudson Bay Canada, and its wet willow tundra habitat, where thousands of birds breed. They helped for a month with a long term snow goose study during the month of June. Think walking over wet hummocks to check 200 nests each day (each person) and getting swarmed by mosquitos. This was the beginning of a wonderful trip around the world they took in 1995 and 1996, all the while finding biologists and research projects to help with. November found them in Nepal where they trekked for days and found a researcher from Wales studying riparian birds.
A conversation with Pam Saunders and Charlie & Mary Jo Burke about growing hazelnuts in the Driftless
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The Great Contradiction with historian Joseph Ellis
Recognizing the wisdom but the tragic flaws of the “architects” of the American revolution, Joseph Ellis’s book The Great Contradiction is the focal point of this episode.
