Podcasts about voles

durée : 00:05:38 - Les bénévoles, piliers de l'organisation du festival Jazz sous les pommiers - par : Sofia Anastasio - Jazz sous les Pommiers s'est achevé ce dimanche à Coutances, porté par plus de cinq-cents bénévoles. Et parmi eux, un noyau dur : des bénévoles passionnés qui, toute l'année, participent activement à la construction du festival. Rencontres.

The library is an important partner in academic success for students and professors. So why do so many people overlook this key resource? Karen McCoy takes us inside her job on two college campuses, unpacking what librarians do, and why she's so happy to help everyone find exactly what they need. Our guest is: Karen B. McCoy, who is a librarian currently living in Northern California. Most days, she can be found answering reference questions or conducting information literacy sessions in both the Sierra College Library and American River College Library. Outside of her librarian career, she maintains a blog where she interviews other authors. She has reviewed books for Library Journal and Children's Literature, and she sold a feature article to School Library Journal entitled, “What Teens are Really Reading.” She also contributed a chapter to Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Her debut novel, The Etiquette of Voles, releases in June 2025 through Artemesia Publishing/Kinkajou Press. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who is a freelance editor for scholarly projects. She is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Book Banning and The National Coalition Against Censorship Once Upon A Tome That Librarian Understanding Disinformation The Grant Writing Guide Where Does Research Really Begin Archival Etiquette Becoming The Writer You Already Are Project Management for Researchers Find Your Argument The Guide To Getting Unstuck Dealing with the Fs Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The library is an important partner in academic success for students and professors. So why do so many people overlook this key resource? Karen McCoy takes us inside her job on two college campuses, unpacking what librarians do, and why she's so happy to help everyone find exactly what they need. Our guest is: Karen B. McCoy, who is a librarian currently living in Northern California. Most days, she can be found answering reference questions or conducting information literacy sessions in both the Sierra College Library and American River College Library. Outside of her librarian career, she maintains a blog where she interviews other authors. She has reviewed books for Library Journal and Children's Literature, and she sold a feature article to School Library Journal entitled, “What Teens are Really Reading.” She also contributed a chapter to Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Her debut novel, The Etiquette of Voles, releases in June 2025 through Artemesia Publishing/Kinkajou Press. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who is a freelance editor for scholarly projects. She is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Book Banning and The National Coalition Against Censorship Once Upon A Tome That Librarian Understanding Disinformation The Grant Writing Guide Where Does Research Really Begin Archival Etiquette Becoming The Writer You Already Are Project Management for Researchers Find Your Argument The Guide To Getting Unstuck Dealing with the Fs Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

The library is an important partner in academic success for students and professors. So why do so many people overlook this key resource? Karen McCoy takes us inside her job on two college campuses, unpacking what librarians do, and why she's so happy to help everyone find exactly what they need. Our guest is: Karen B. McCoy, who is a librarian currently living in Northern California. Most days, she can be found answering reference questions or conducting information literacy sessions in both the Sierra College Library and American River College Library. Outside of her librarian career, she maintains a blog where she interviews other authors. She has reviewed books for Library Journal and Children's Literature, and she sold a feature article to School Library Journal entitled, “What Teens are Really Reading.” She also contributed a chapter to Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Her debut novel, The Etiquette of Voles, releases in June 2025 through Artemesia Publishing/Kinkajou Press. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who is a freelance editor for scholarly projects. She is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Book Banning and The National Coalition Against Censorship Once Upon A Tome That Librarian Understanding Disinformation The Grant Writing Guide Where Does Research Really Begin Archival Etiquette Becoming The Writer You Already Are Project Management for Researchers Find Your Argument The Guide To Getting Unstuck Dealing with the Fs Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The library is an important partner in academic success for students and professors. So why do so many people overlook this key resource? Karen McCoy takes us inside her job on two college campuses, unpacking what librarians do, and why she's so happy to help everyone find exactly what they need. Our guest is: Karen B. McCoy, who is a librarian currently living in Northern California. Most days, she can be found answering reference questions or conducting information literacy sessions in both the Sierra College Library and American River College Library. Outside of her librarian career, she maintains a blog where she interviews other authors. She has reviewed books for Library Journal and Children's Literature, and she sold a feature article to School Library Journal entitled, “What Teens are Really Reading.” She also contributed a chapter to Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Her debut novel, The Etiquette of Voles, releases in June 2025 through Artemesia Publishing/Kinkajou Press. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who is a freelance editor for scholarly projects. She is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Book Banning and The National Coalition Against Censorship Once Upon A Tome That Librarian Understanding Disinformation The Grant Writing Guide Where Does Research Really Begin Archival Etiquette Becoming The Writer You Already Are Project Management for Researchers Find Your Argument The Guide To Getting Unstuck Dealing with the Fs Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Roger Baldwin (UCCE Specialist in Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution) discusses orchard management of pocket gophers, ground squirrels, voles (meadow mice), roof rats, and deer mice. This is a compilation of two episodes from 2022, with Luke Milliron providing a new introduction with highlights from 2024/2025. Skip to the pest you're concerned about: 00:05:35 Pocket Gophers 00:35:12 Ground Squirrels 00:48:33 Voles/Meadow Mice 01:02:38 Roof Rats01:12:39 Deer Mice Come to an upcoming extension meeting!In the Sacramento Valley: Almond Variety Trials: 2025 Field Meeting is next Wednesday April 30Kiwi grower meeting: vine cankers on Thursday May 1 In the San Joquin Valley: Advances in Vineyard Water & Nutrient Management Workshop in Modesto on Tuesday April, 29 Online: UC AgExpert Webinar for CEUs on soil health later in the day on April 30 Gophers, Ground Squirrels, and Voles… Oh My!UC IPM notes on pocket gophersUC ANR video on how to set gopher trapsVertebrate Pest Control Handbook Chapter on Controlling Pocket Gophers Ground squirrels: http://www.groundsquirrelbmp.com/ Voles: http://vpcrac.org/files/4314/7612/1259/Meadow_vole_chapter.pdfDeer Mice: http://vpcrac.org/files/3114/7612/0294/Deer_mice.pdfRoof rats and deer mice: https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8513.pdf; http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74106.html The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the University of California. The material and information presented here is for general information purposes only. The "University of California" name and all forms and abbreviations are the property of its owner and its use does not imply endorsement of or opposition to any specific organization, product, or service.Follow us on Twitter! @SacOrchards and @SJVtandvThank you to the Almond, Pistachio, Prune, and Walnut Boards of California for their kind donations. Thank you to Muriel Gordon for the music.Mention of a rodenticide or fumigant does not constitute a recommendation, merely the sharing of research findings. Always follow the label. The label is law. Find out more at ipm.ucanr.edu.

Le Barreau des arts fête ses cinq ans. Cette association française fondée par de jeunes avocats apporte une aide bénévole aux artistes précaires et notamment aux artistes étrangers. Droit d'auteur, droit à l'image, droits voisins, les artistes sont souvent démunis face aux acteurs de l'industrie culturelle. Le Barreau des arts leur offre des analyses et des conseils gratuitement. Avijit Gosh est un peintre indien. Il vit dans un petit studio du 13e arrondissement de Paris. L'an dernier, il a fait appel aux avocats du Barreau des arts, alors qu'un imprimeur prétendait avoir des droits sur ses peintures. « Pour moi, c'est vraiment une bonne expérience. Quelqu'un, une société, une organisation m'a écouté », se réjouit-il.Les avocats du Barreau des arts ont étudié son dossier, puis ont adressé une lettre à l'imprimeur qui a abandonné ses demandes infondées. L'association gère ainsi une centaine de dossiers par an. Musiciens, plasticiens, comédiens, écrivains, tous les domaines artistiques sont concernés. « Nous allons prendre en compte deux critères : le fait que ce soit du droit d'auteur, et que cela réponde aux critères de l'aide juridictionnelle, puisque l'on va aider des artistes en situation de précarité. Ensuite, on va transmettre le dossier à un étudiant bénévole qui va travailler dessus, appeler l'artiste, réunir des pièces complémentaires. Puis, à un avocat qui va prendre le temps de conseiller de manière personnalisée l'artiste sur sa problématique », détaille Corentin Schimel, juriste et photographe, l'un des cofondateurs de l'association. Être en position de négocier pour l'artiste Le Barreau des arts intervient sur les questions de droits d'auteurs uniquement, les contrats, leurs déséquilibres possibles, les questions de plagiat et de contrefaçon. « Je pense que ce que l'on fait, c'est donner des outils pour que l'artiste se sente en mesure de négocier face, parfois, à une institution ou un partenaire plus fort entre guillemets ou qui est accompagné juridiquement. Et donc d'être dans une position pour négocier », estime Lucie Tréguier, cofondatrice et présidente du Barreau des arts. L'idée générale est d'éviter d'aller jusqu'au procès. La plupart des cas se résolvent par la négociation. « Ce sera du règlement amiable du dossier, donc on va aiguiller la personne en lui disant : "Voilà, on te conseille de faire valoir tes droits de telle manière, de revendiquer tel fondement", et puis d'aller discuter avec la personne pour essayer de s'arranger. Surtout dans le domaine de la musique qui s'y prête beaucoup », constate Aurélie Leroy, avocate.Soixante-quinze avocats collaborent avec le Barreau des arts. Tous le font pro bono, c'est-à-dire bénévolement. « Je pense que c'est une bonne balance avec notre métier d'avocat. Ce que l'on propose dans le cadre du barreau des arts, c'est vraiment d'aider les plus précaires qui n'auraient pas accès au droit. Et dans ma vision du métier, c'est quelque chose qui est important », confie Lucie Tréguier. Dans les rares cas où l'artiste est obligé de faire appel aux tribunaux pour trancher un litige, le Barreau des arts peut faire jouer le droit de suite et obtenir une prise en charge des frais d'avocat de leur bénéficiaire.À lire aussiFrance: rapport accablant d'une commission d'enquête sur les violences dans le milieu artistique

Le Barreau des arts fête ses cinq ans. Cette association française fondée par de jeunes avocats apporte une aide bénévole aux artistes précaires et notamment aux artistes étrangers. Droit d'auteur, droit à l'image, droits voisins, les artistes sont souvent démunis face aux acteurs de l'industrie culturelle. Le Barreau des arts leur offre des analyses et des conseils gratuitement. Avijit Gosh est un peintre indien. Il vit dans un petit studio du 13e arrondissement de Paris. L'an dernier, il a fait appel aux avocats du Barreau des arts, alors qu'un imprimeur prétendait avoir des droits sur ses peintures. « Pour moi, c'est vraiment une bonne expérience. Quelqu'un, une société, une organisation m'a écouté », se réjouit-il.Les avocats du Barreau des arts ont étudié son dossier, puis ont adressé une lettre à l'imprimeur qui a abandonné ses demandes infondées. L'association gère ainsi une centaine de dossiers par an. Musiciens, plasticiens, comédiens, écrivains, tous les domaines artistiques sont concernés. « Nous allons prendre en compte deux critères : le fait que ce soit du droit d'auteur, et que cela réponde aux critères de l'aide juridictionnelle, puisque l'on va aider des artistes en situation de précarité. Ensuite, on va transmettre le dossier à un étudiant bénévole qui va travailler dessus, appeler l'artiste, réunir des pièces complémentaires. Puis, à un avocat qui va prendre le temps de conseiller de manière personnalisée l'artiste sur sa problématique », détaille Corentin Schimel, juriste et photographe, l'un des cofondateurs de l'association. Être en position de négocier pour l'artiste Le Barreau des arts intervient sur les questions de droits d'auteurs uniquement, les contrats, leurs déséquilibres possibles, les questions de plagiat et de contrefaçon. « Je pense que ce que l'on fait, c'est donner des outils pour que l'artiste se sente en mesure de négocier face, parfois, à une institution ou un partenaire plus fort entre guillemets ou qui est accompagné juridiquement. Et donc d'être dans une position pour négocier », estime Lucie Tréguier, cofondatrice et présidente du Barreau des arts. L'idée générale est d'éviter d'aller jusqu'au procès. La plupart des cas se résolvent par la négociation. « Ce sera du règlement amiable du dossier, donc on va aiguiller la personne en lui disant : "Voilà, on te conseille de faire valoir tes droits de telle manière, de revendiquer tel fondement", et puis d'aller discuter avec la personne pour essayer de s'arranger. Surtout dans le domaine de la musique qui s'y prête beaucoup », constate Aurélie Leroy, avocate.Soixante-quinze avocats collaborent avec le Barreau des arts. Tous le font pro bono, c'est-à-dire bénévolement. « Je pense que c'est une bonne balance avec notre métier d'avocat. Ce que l'on propose dans le cadre du barreau des arts, c'est vraiment d'aider les plus précaires qui n'auraient pas accès au droit. Et dans ma vision du métier, c'est quelque chose qui est important », confie Lucie Tréguier. Dans les rares cas où l'artiste est obligé de faire appel aux tribunaux pour trancher un litige, le Barreau des arts peut faire jouer le droit de suite et obtenir une prise en charge des frais d'avocat de leur bénéficiaire.À lire aussiFrance: rapport accablant d'une commission d'enquête sur les violences dans le milieu artistique

durée : 00:13:56 - Carnets de campagne - par : Dorothée Barba - Au programme des Carnets du jour en Aveyron : une association qui tend la main à des familles déboutées de leur demande d'asile, puis une librairie associative éphémère dans un petit village du Larzac.

Nous retrouvons les locaux de la BBR pour ce nouvel épisode sous la forme d'une table ronde avec trois bénévoles : Mme Audrey Vuilleumier et Messieurs Serge Clopt et Philippe Verlooven. Ils ont comme point commun d'avoir participé à plusieurs enregistrements de pièces de théâtre produites par la BBR, mais aussi, pour deux d'entre eux, d'exercer en tant que comédien.ne dans des troupes de théâtre de la région. Ils partagent ainsi leurs expériences, et les différences entre les enregistrements de livres en solo, dans nos studios, les enregistrements à plusieurs voix et leur activité sur scène au théâtre. Vous découvrirez également quelques extraits de pièces produites par la bibliothèque.

aujourd'hui je suis énervée et on parle bénévolat des meufs dans le couple, théorie du pot de yaourt, dépenses et surtout éducation financière (pour votre plus grand bien).l'article : https://lobsoco.com/argent-couple-et-pots-de-yaourt/bienvenue dans Night Confessions ! je suis Manon Delcourt, votre hôtesse de qualité.retrouvez moi sur Instagram : @manondelcourttle mail pour te confesser ou me poser tes questions du moment : thenightconfessions@gmail.comDistribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Chaque jour, retrouvez le journal de 19h de la rédaction d'Europe 1 pour faire le tour de l'actu. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Chaque jour, retrouvez le journal de 19h de la rédaction d'Europe 1 pour faire le tour de l'actu. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Chaque jour, retrouvez le journal de 19h de la rédaction d'Europe 1 pour faire le tour de l'actu. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Topics this week include Soybean Fertility, Coggins Testing, Voles, Lawn Mowing, and more! Learn from our Agriculture Agents in Southeast Kansas from K-State Research and Extension's Wildcat District.

durée : 00:12:42 - Carnets de campagne - par : Dorothée Barba - Ces mammifères marins ont peur des touristes : les bénévoles de l'association Picardie Nature sont sur les plages de la baie de Somme de mai à août pour les protéger. Egalement au programme des Carnets dans la Somme : un agriculteur à la retraite qui cultive des patates pour les Restos du Cœur.

Tous les matins à 7H10 et 9h45, on vous donne des bonnes nouvelles.

Tous les matins à 7H10 et 9h45, on vous donne des bonnes nouvelles.

durée : 00:03:24 - A Longages, la défense des chemins ruraux, Clément Méténier - Pour défendre et préserver les chemins ruraux, le Collectif de défense des loisirs verts (Codever) organise des chantiers partout en France, jusqu'au 16 mars 2025. Ce dimanche, une vingtaine de bénévoles s'est réunie sur la commune de Longages (Haute-Garonne) pour réhabiliter des chemins.

durée : 00:03:21 - L'invité des programmes de "ici Sud Lorraine" : Le Salon Habitat Déco de Nancy bat son plein jusqu'à lundi 3 mars

durée : 00:04:02 - Une semaine dans leurs vies - Parmi les artistes sélectionnés au Salon de Montrouge, certains mettent les territoires à l'honneur en sortant de la salle d'exposition pour aller à la rencontre des habitants. Le duo ORAN, composé de Morgane et Flo.re, a choisi d'impliquer les bénévoles d'un café associatif, le Schmilblik.

For years, scientists have known that oxytocin is important in facilitating the feeling of love in humans. How do they know? Prairie voles. For years, scientists have relied on the cuddly rodents to help us humans understand how this protein works in our brains. But within the past few years, research has complicated that understanding, prompting the question: Can love prevail without the "love" hormone? (encore)Help shape the future of Short Wave by taking our survey: npr.org/shortwavesurveyListen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Après la nouvelle intrusion d'une voiture sur le parcours de l'Étoile de Bessèges-Tour du Gard, huit équipes se sont retirées en signe de protestation. Une situation rare qui soulève de nombreuses questions en termes de sécurité et d'organisation de courses cyclistes, comme l'a expliqué Marc Madiot dans les Grandes Gueules du Sport sur RMC. C'était LE moment à ne pas rater !

durée : 00:03:01 - Les 30 ans des Jardins de la Croisière à Sens

durée : 00:01:52 - Esprit sport - Les championnats du monde de handball se déroulent en ce moment. L'occasion pour Esprit sport de mettre un coup de projecteur sur ceux qui travaillent dans l'ombre, comme Franck Roussel, président de la section handball du Cercle-Paul-Bert de Rennes. C'est notre premier invité de la semaine.

durée : 00:14:49 - Carnets de campagne - par : Dorothée Barba - Au programme des Carnets du jour dans le Loiret : une association qui organise des marches de nettoyage de la Loire, et une nouvelle conserverie, à Bou, pour lutter contre le gaspillage de produits bio.

Après les 9 nouveaux témoignages contre l'Abbé Pierre, 9 accusations de violences sexuelles, viol sur mineur et abus incestueux, la consternation franchit encore un cap dans la communauté Emmaüs. La fondation Abbé Pierre a tenu à médiatiser cette enquête dans un souci de transparence, et pour dire que la mission d'aider les plus démunis, elle, restait intacte. Mais au quotidien, rien n'est simple pour les salariés et les bénévoles. Morad Djabari s'est rendu pour RTL à la Maison de la solidarité de Gennevilliers, près de Paris. Depuis les premières révélations sur l'homme d'Église, c'est le choc. Et à chaque nouveau témoignage, c'est une douleur supplémentaire. Ecoutez RTL Inside avec Agnès Bonfillon du 14 janvier 2025.

Au cœur de la nuit, les auditeurs se livrent en toute liberté aux oreilles attentives et bienveillantes de Valérie Darmon. Pas de jugements ni de tabous, une conversation franche, mais aussi des réponses aux questions que les auditeurs se posent. Un moment d'échange et de partage propice à la confidence pour repartir le cœur plus léger.

Au cœur de la nuit, les auditeurs se livrent en toute liberté aux oreilles attentives et bienveillantes de Valérie Darmon. Pas de jugements ni de tabous, une conversation franche, mais aussi des réponses aux questions que les auditeurs se posent. Un moment d'échange et de partage propice à la confidence pour repartir le cœur plus léger.

Si vous avez écouté notre épisode Teaser, enregistré et diffusé la semaine dernière à l'issue de la conférence de presse du CHI de Genève, alors vous m'avez entendu le souffler à notre interlocuteur du jour, le directeur sportif du CHI et fabuleux ambassadeur de cet événement : le concours hippique international de Genève revêt une saveur toute particulière. Pourtant, vous le savez, nous avons l'habitude d'être présentes sur des compétitions de niveau 5*. Madrid, Göteborg, Londres, Lyon, Ocala, Wellington.. Nous sommes familières à ces compétitions d'envergure. Pourtant, je réitère ce matin les mots que j'ai adressés à Alban : Le CHI, c'est différent. Genève, c'est un grand repas de famille. Chaque année, cette collaboration nous ravit et nous rappelle combien nous sommes chanceuses de faire partie, comme des pièces rapportées, de cette famille conviviale et accueillante, passionnée et passionnante. Aujourd'hui nous avons eu envie de rencontrer les bénévoles qui sont chaque année plus nombreux, chaque année plus fidèles, chaque année plus passionnés et qui participent allègrement à faire de Genève, Genève. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

KAXE Staff Phenologist John Latimer provides his weekly assessment of nature in Northern Minnesota. This is the week of

Hello one and all and welcome back to another episode of Trophy Talk! As has become somewhat of a tradition in these parts, Josh, Colin and Darryl gather during this episode to provide their definitive ranking for their favorite trophy hunts of 2024! Each member of the crew brought an honorable mention, a bronze award, a silver award, a gold award and a platinum meaning all in all, we talk about 15 games here! That's a ton of games to go over, and you'll be happy and delighted to hear that we actually don't have as much overlap on titles as you might initially think! Before all that though we talk about Josh's new job as an exterminator of Voles as the critters have declared all out war on his house. Even though it's necessary to defend ones home from invaders, it doesn't mean it feels good to do so. From there we also touch on Patron submitted questions including some of our Thanksgiving and holiday favorites, as well as rage about the seemingly never ending stories of stick drift with the Duel Sense controllers. We sincerely hope that you enjoy this episode, and that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving if you observe it. We'll see you soon and happy gaming!

Welcome to the KSL Greenhouse show! Join hosts Maria Shilaos and Taun Beddes as they talk about all things plants, tackle your toughest gardening questions, and offer tips that can help you maintain a beautiful yard. Listen on Saturdays from 8am to 11am at 102.7 FM, 1160 AM, kslnewsradio.com, or on the KSL NewsRadio app. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at @kslgreenhouse. Happy planting! #KSLGreenhouse    Guest: Nate Porter, Executive Director of The Beaumont Assisted Living and Memory Care    9:05  Feature: How to Manage Voles  9:20  Will my wisteria be pervasive if I plant it over my garage?  9:35  What should I do now in the fall to get rid of cane borers in raspberry plants?  9:50  Is now still a good time to build raised beds? 

When I turned twenty-one in 1994, I embarked on a 500 mile solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail across the state of Washington.  The Tread of My Soul is a memoir-meets-travelogue written from the trail.  Originally self published and shared with only a handful of family and friends, I recently dusted off the manuscript with the intention of sharing it with a new generation, on the 30th anniversary of its completion. Among black bears, ravens and Indian paintbrush, I grappled with the meaning of life while traversing the spine of the Cascade range with a handful of pocket edition classics in tow. Quotes from sacred texts, poets, and naturalists punctuate a coming of age tale contemplated in the wilderness.What follows is Part 1 of the book, squared off into four long Substack posts. For this first post, I'm also exclusively including Pacific Crest Trail Soundwalk, featuring a binaural field recording captured while hiking the first few miles on the Pacific Crest Trail up out of the Columbia Gorge in Washington. (If you haven't already, feel free to tap that play button at the top of the post.) The 26-minute composition cycles a triad of parts inspired by the letters PCT: part one in Phrygian mode (in E), part two in the key of C, and part three with Tritone substitutions. The instrumentation is outlined with Pianet electric piano, and colored in with synthesizer and intriguing pads built with a vaguely Appalachian mood in mind. It's on the quieter side, in terms of wildlife, but all in all, I think it compliments the reading. It concludes with a pretty frog chorus so, like the book, I'm making it unrestricted, in the hope of enticing some readers to stick with it to the end. If you prefer, you can find The Tread of My Soul in ebook format available for free right now on Apple Books or Amazon Kindle Store (free with Kindle Unlimited, points, or $2.99). If you read it and like it, please feel free to leave a review to help others find it. Thank you. So, without further ado, here we go:The Tread of My SoulComing of Age on the Pacific Crest Trailby Chad CrouchACT 1(AT RISE we see TEACHER and STUDENTS in an art studio. It is fall term; the sun is just beginning to set when class begins. Warm light washes the profiles of eight classmates. The wood floors are splashed with technicolor constellations of paint.)TEACHERHello. Welcome to class. I find role taking a tiresome practice so we'll skip over that and get to the assignment. Here I have a two-inch square of paper for you. I would like you to put your soul on it. The assignment is due in five minutes. No further explanations will be given.STUDENT #1(makes eye contact with a STUDENT #4, a young woman. She wears a perplexed smile on her face.)TEACHERHere you go.                                    (hands out squares of paper.)(People begin to work. Restlessness gives way to an almost reverence, except STUDENT #5 is scribbling to no end. The Students' awareness of others fades imperceptibly inward.  Five minutes pass quickly.)TEACHERTeacher: Are you ready? I'm interested to see what you've come up with.                                    (scuffle of some stools; the sound of a classroom reclaiming itself.)TEACHERWhat have you got there?STUDENT #1Well, I used half of the time just thinking. I was looking at my pencil and I thought…                                    (taps pencil on his knee, you see it is a mechanical model)this will never do the trick. The idea of soul seemed too intense to be grasped with only graphite. So 1 poked a pin sized hole in the paper and wrote:                                    (reading voice)“Hold paper up to sun, look into hole for soul.” That's all the further I got.TEACHER                                    (looking at student #2)And you?STUDENT #2                                    (smiles)Um, I didn't know what to do so all I have is a few specks where I was tapping my pen while I was thinking. This one…                                    (she points to a dot)is all, um, all fuzzy because I was ready to draw something and I hesitated so the ink just ran…(Students nod sympathetically. Attention goes to STUDENT #3)STUDENT #3I couldn't deal with just one little blank square.                                    (holds paper up and flaps it around, listlessly)So I started dividing.                                    (steadies and turns paper to reveal a graph.)Now, I have lots of squares in which to put my soul in. I think of a soul as being multifaceted.TEACHEROkay.  Thank you.  Next…                                    (looking at student #4)STUDENT #4                                    (without hesitation)I just stepped on it.(holds paper up to reveal the tread of a shoe sole in a multicolor print.)The tread of my soul.•     •     •            The writing that follows seems to have many of the same attributes as the students' responses to the problem posed in the preceding scene. While I have a lot more paper to work with, the problem remains the same: how do I express myself?  How do I express the intangible and essential part of me that people call a soul?  What is it wrapped up in?  What doctrines, ideologies and memories help give it a shape?            I guess I identify mostly with Student #4. Her shoe-print “Tread of My Soul” alludes to my own process: walking over 500 miles on The Pacific Crest Trail from Oregon To Canada in the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington. In trying to describe my soul I found that useful to be literal. Where my narrative dips into memoir or philosophy I tried not to hesitate or overthink things.  I tried to lay it all out.            Student #1's solution was evident in my own problem solving in how I constantly had to look elsewhere; into nature, into literature, and into symbology to even begin to bring out the depth of what I was thinking and feeling. Often the words of spiritual classics and of poetry are seen through my writing as if looking through a hole. I can only claim originality in where I poke the holes.            As for Student #2, I am afraid that my own problem solving doesn't evoke enough of her charm. For as much as I wanted to be thoughtful, I wanted also to be open and unstudied, tapping my pen. What I see has emerged, however, is at times argumentative. In retrospect I see that I had no recourse, really. My thoughts on God and Jesus were molded in a throng of letters, dialogues, experiences, and personal studies prior to writing this.Finally, in the winter of my twenty-first year, as I set down to transcribe this book, I realize how necessary it was to hike. Student #3 had the same problem. The soul is complex and cannot fit into a box. Hiking gave me a cadence to begin to answer the question what is my soul? The trail made me mindful. There was the unceasing metaphor of the journey: I could only reach my goal incrementally. This tamed my writing sometimes. It wandered sometimes and I was at ease to let it. I had more than five minutes and a scrap of paper. I had each step.•     •     •            The Bridge of the Gods looks like a behemoth Erector set project over the Columbia River spanning the natural border of Washington and Oregon. My question: what sort of Gods use Erector sets?  Its namesake actually descends from an event in space and time; a landslide. The regional natives likely witnessed, in the last millennium, a landslide that temporarily dammed the Columbia effectually creating a bridge—The Bridge of the Gods. I just finished reading about why geologists think landslides are frequent in the gorge. Didn't say anything about Gods. How we name things, as humankind, has something to do with space and time doesn't it? Where once we call something The Bridge of the Gods it has been contemporarily reduced to landslide. We have new Gods now, and they compel us to do the work with erector sets. Or perhaps I mistook the name: It doesn't necessarily mean Gods made it. Perhaps Gods dwell there or frequent it. Or maybe it is a passageway that goes where the Gods go. It seems to me that if the Gods wanted to migrate from, say, Mt. Rainier in Washington to Mt. Hood in Oregon, they would probably follow the Cascade Ridge down to the Bridge of the Gods and cross there.            If so, I think I should like to see one, or maybe a whole herd of them like the caribou I saw in Alaska earlier this summer, strewn across the snow field like mahogany tables. Gods, I tend to think are more likely to be seen in the high places or thereabouts, after all,The patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament behold the Lord face to face in the high places. For Moses it was Mount Sinai and Mount Nebo; in the New Testament it is the Mount of Olives and Golgotha. I went so far as to discover this ancient symbol of the mountain in the pyramid constructions of Egypt and Chaldea. Turning to the Aryans, I recalled those obscure legends of the Vedas in which the Soma—the 'nectar' that is in the 'seed of immortality' is said to reside in its luminous and subtle form 'within the mountain.' In India the Himalayas are the dwelling place of the Siva, of his spouse 'the Daughter of the Mountain,' and the 'Mothers' of all worlds, just as in Greece the king of the gods held court on Mt Olympus.- Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue            These days Gods don't go around making landslides every time they want to cross a river, much less perform a Jesus walking on the water miracle. That would be far too suspicious. Gods like to conceal themselves. A popular saying is "God helps those who help themselves." I think if Moses were alive today, Jehovah would have him build a bridge rather than part the waters.            Someone said, "Miracles take a lot of hard work." This is true.•     •     •Day 1.Bridge of the Gods.Exhausted, I pitch my tent on the side of the trail in the hot afternoon and crawl into to take a nap to avoid the annoying bugs.My sweat leaves a dead person stamp on the taffeta floor.Heavy pack.  A vertical climb of 3200 ft.Twelve miles. I heaved dry tears and wanted to vomit.Dinner and camp on a saddle.Food hard to stomach.View of Adams and gorge.            Perhaps I am a naive pilgrim as I cross over that bridge embarking on what I suppose will be a forty day and night journey on the Pacific Crest Trail with the terminus in Canada. My mother gave me a box of animal crackers before my departure so I could leave “a trail of crumbs to return by.” The familiar classic Barnum's red, yellow and blue box dangles from a carabineer of my expedition backpack            As I cross over the bridge I feel small, the pack bearing down on my hips, legs, knees, feet. I look past my feet, beyond the steel grid decking of the bridge, at the water below.  Its green surface swirls. I wonder how many gallons are framed in each metal square and how many flow by in the instant I look?How does the sea become the king of all streams?Because it is lower than they!Hence it is the king of all streams.-Lao-tzu, Tao Teh Ching            On the Bridge of the Gods I begin my quest, gazing at my feet superimposed on the Columbia's waters flowing toward the ocean. Our paths are divergent. Why is it that the water knows without a doubt where to go; to its humble Ocean King that embraces our planet in blue? I know no such path of least resistance to and feel at one with humankind. To the contrary, when we follow our paths of least resistance—following our family trees of religion, learning cultural norms—we end up worshipping different Gods. It is much easier for an Indian to revere Brahman than it is for I. It is much easier for me to worship Christ than it is for an Indian. These paths are determined geographically and socially.             It's not without trepidation that I begin my journey. I want to turn from society and turn to what I believe to be impartial: the sweeping landscape.            With me I bring a small collection of pocket books representing different ideas of the soul. (Dhammapada, Duino Elegies, Tao Teh Ching, Song of Myself, Walden, Mount Analogue, and the Bible.) It isn't that I want to renounce my faith.  I turn to the wilderness, to see if I can't make sense of it all.            I hike north. This is a fitting metaphor. The sun rises in the east and arcs over the south to the west. To the north is darkness. To the north my shadow is cast. Instinctively I want to probe this.•     •     •Day 2.Hiked fourteen miles.Three miles on a ridge and five descending brought me to Rock Creek.I bathed in the pool. Shelves of fern on a wet rock wall.Swaths of sunlight penetrating the leafy canopy.Met one person.Read and wrote and slept on a bed of moss.Little appetite.Began another ascent.Fatigued, I cried and cursed out at the forest.I saw a black bear descending through the brushBefore reaching a dark campsite.            I am setting records of fatigue for myself. I am a novice at hiking. Here is the situation: I have 150 miles to walk. Simple arithmetic agrees that if I average 15 miles a day it will take me 10 days to get to the post office in White Pass where I have mailed myself more food. I think I am carrying a sufficient amount of food to sustain my journey, although I'm uncertain because I have never backpacked for more than three consecutive days. The greatest contingency, it seems, is my strength: can I actually walk 15 miles a day with 60 pounds on my back in the mountains? Moreover, can I continue to rise and fall as much as I have? I have climbed a vertical distance of over 6000 feet in the first two days.            I begin to quantify my movement in terms of Sears Towers. I reason that if the Sears Tower is 1000 feet, I walked the stairs of it up and down almost 5 times. I am developing a language of abstract symbols to articulate my pain.            I dwell on my condition. I ask myself, are these thoughts intensified by my weakness or am I feeding my weakness with my thoughts?            I begin to think about God. Many saints believed by impoverishing their physical self, often by fasting, their spiritual self would increase as a result. Will my spirit awake as my body suffers?            I feet the lactic acid burning my muscle tissue. I begin to moan aloud. I do this for some time until, like a thunderclap, I unleash voice in the forest.            I say, "I CAN'T do this,” and "I CAN do this," in turn. I curse and call out "Where are you God? I've come to find you." Then I see the futility of my words. Scanning the forest: all is lush, verdant, solemn, still. My complaint is not registered here.And all things conspire to keep silent about us, half out of shame perhaps, half as unutterable hope.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies            I unstrap my pack and collapse into heap on the trail floor, curled up. I want to be still like the forest.            The forest makes a noise: Crack, crack, crack.            I think a deer must be traversing through the brush. I turn slowly to look in the direction of the sound. It's close. Not twenty yards off judging from the noise.            I pick myself up to view the creature, and look breathlessly. It's just below me in the ravine. Its shadowy black body dilates subtly as it breathes. What light falls on it seems to be soaked up, like a hole cut in the forest in the shape of an animal. It turns and looks at me with glassy eyes. It claims all my senses—I see, hear, feel, smell, taste nothing else--as I focus on the bear.And so I hold myself back to swallow the call note of my dark sobbing.Ah, whom can we ever turn to in our need?Not angels, not humans and already the knowing animals are aware that we are really not at home in our interpreted world.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies            Remembering what I read to do when encountering a bear, I raise my arms, making myself bigger. "Hello bear," I say, "Go away!"            With the rhythm of cracking branches, it does.•     •     •Day 3.Hiked thirteen miles.Descended to Trout Creek, thirsty.Met a couple en route to Lake Tahoe.Bathed in Panther Creek.Saw the wind brushing the lower canopy of leaves on a hillside.A fly landed on the hairs of my forearm and I,Complacent,Dreamt.            I awake in an unusual bed: a stream bed. A trickle of clear water ran over stones beneath me, down my center, as if to bisect me. And yet I was not wet. What, I wonder, is the significance of this dream?            The August sun had been relentless thus far on my journey. The heat combined with the effort involved in getting from one source of water to the next makes an arrival quite thrilling. If the water is deep enough for my body, even more so:I undress... hurry me out of sight of land, cushion me soft... rock me in billowy drowse Dash me with amorous wet...- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself            There is something electrifying and intensely renewing about swimming naked in a cold creek pool or mountain lake.I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect; "renew thyself completely each day; do it again and again and forever again."- Henry David Thoreau, Walden            Is bathing, then, a spiritual exercise?            When I was baptized on June 15, 1985 in the tiled pool of our chapel in the Portland suburbs, I thought surely as I was submerged something extraordinary would happen, such as the face of Jesus would appear to me in the water. And I did do it—I opened my eyes under water— but saw only the blur of my pastor's white torso and the hanging ferns that framed the pool. I wondered: shouldn't a ceremony as significant as this feel more than just wet? I'm guessing that most children with exposure to religion often keep their eyes open for some sort of spectacular encounter with God, be it to punish or affirm them. (As a child, I remember sitting in front of the television thinking God could put a commercial on for heaven if he wanted to.)            Now, only ten years after I was baptized, I still keep my eyes open for God, though not contextually the same, not within a religion, not literally.            And when I swim in a clear creek pool, I feel communion, pure and alive. The small rounded stones are reminders of the ceaseless touch of water. Their blurry shapes embrace me in a way that the symbols and rites of the church fail to.I hear and behold God in every objectYet I understand God not in the least.-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself            And unlike the doctrines and precepts of organized religion, I have never doubted my intrinsic bond to water.And more-For greater than all the joysOf heaven and earthGreater still than dominionOver all worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream.- Dhammapada, Sayings of the Buddha•     •     •Day 4.Hiked fourteen miles. Climbed to a beautiful ridge.Signs, yellow and black posted every 50 feet: "Experimental Forest"Wound down to a campground where I met three peopleAs I stopped for lunch."Where does this trail go to?" he says. "Mexico," I say."Ha Ha," says he.Camped at small Green Lake.            My body continues to evolve. My hair and fingernails grow and grow, and right now I've got four new teeth trying to find a seat in my mouth.            I turned twenty-one on August sixth. On August sixth, 1945 a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The world lost more people than it made that day. When I was born, I suspect we gained a few.            I'm an adult now, and I'm not sure where it happened or why. I wonder if someone had to stamp something somewhere because of it? A big red stamp that says "ADULT".  It was a blind passage for me—just like those persons who evaporated at ground zero on August sixth, 49 years ago.            I do feel like I just evaporated into adulthood. I am aware of the traditional ceremony of turning twenty-one. Drinking. Contemporary society commemorates becoming an adult with this token privilege. Do you have any idea how fast alcohol evaporates? I am suggesting this: One's response to this rite rarely affords any resolution or insight into growth. Our society commemorates the passage from child to adult with a fermented beverage.            I wanted to more deliberate about becoming an adult. Hence the second reason (behind a spiritual search) for this sojourn into the wilderness. I took my lead from the scriptures:And he was in the desert forty days... He was with the wild animal and the angels attended him.- Mark 1:13            Something about those forty days prepared Jesus for what we know of his adult life.I also took my lead from Native Americans. Their rite of passage is called a vision quest, wherein the youth goes alone into the depth of nature for a few days to receive some sort of insight into being.            I look around me. I am alone here in the woods a few days after my birthday. Why? To discover those parts of me that want to be liberated. To draw the fragrant air into my lungs. To feel my place in nature.…beneath each footfall with resolution.I want to own every atom of myself in the present and be able to say:Look I am living. On what? NeitherChildhood nor future grows any smaller....Superabundant being wells up in my heart.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies•     •     •Day 5.Hiked to Bear Lake and swam.Saw over a dozen people. Eighteen miles.Watched raven fly from tree and listened.Found frogs as little as my thumbnail.Left Indian Heaven.            Surprise.  My body is becoming acclimated to long distance hiking. I know because when I rest it is a luxury rather than a necessity.            The light is warmer and comes through the forest canopy at an acute angle from the west, illuminating the trunks of this relatively sparse old growth stand. I am laying on my back watching a raven at his common perch aloft in a dead Douglas fir.            It leaps into its court and flap its wings slowly, effortlessly navigating through the old wood pillars. The most spectacular sense of this, however, is the sound: a loud, slow, hollow thrum: Whoosh whoosh, whoosh....  It's as if the interstices between each pulse are too long, too vacant to keep the creature airborne. Unlike its kind, this raven does not speak: there are no loud guttural croaks to be heard.            Northwest coastal tribes such as the Kwakiutl thought the croaks of a raven were prophetic and whoever could interpret them was a seer. Indeed, the mythic perception of ravens to be invested with knowledge and power is somewhat universal.           My raven is silent. And this is apt, for I tend to think the most authentic prophecies are silent, or near to it.Great sound is silent.- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching            The contour of that sound and silence leaves a sublime impression on me.•     •     •Day 6.Hiked twelve miles.Many uphill, but not most.Met several people.One group looked like they were enjoying themselves—two families.I spent the afternoon reading my natural history book on a bridge.Voles (forest mice) relentlessly made efforts to infiltrate my food bag during the night.            I am reading about how to call a tree a “Pacific Silver Fir” or an “Engelmann Spruce” or “Western Larch” and so on. If something arouses my curiosity on my walk, I look in my natural history book to see if it has anything to say.            Jung said, "Sometimes a tree can teach you more than a book can."            Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha was enlightened beneath a fig tree.            I read that a 316-year-old Ponderosa Pine east of Mt. Jefferson bears scars from 18 forest fires. Surely that tree taught us one thing a book couldn't.  All things are clues. Everything is part of a complex tapestry of causality.            The grand design behind these mountains has something to do with plate tectonics. Beneath me the oceanic plate is diving beneath the continental at twenty to sixty degrees putting it well under the coastline to where it partially melts and forms magma. This has been happening for millions of years. Every once and a while this magma channels its way up to the surface, cools and turns into igneous rock. Again and again, this happens. Again and again, and yet again until a mountain is made; a stratovolcano.            Meanwhile, on top, water, glaciers, wind, and sun are trying to carry the mountains away grain by grain. Geologic time is as incomprehensible as it would be to imagine someone's life by looking at his or her gravestone. These mountains are gravestones.            Plants fight to keep the hillsides together. Plants and trees do. But every summer some of those trees, somewhere, are going to burn. Nature will not tolerate too much fuel. New trees will grow to replace those lost. Again and again. Eighteen times over and there we find our tree, a scarred Ponderosa Pine in the tapestry.            And every summer the flowers will bloom. The bees will come to pollinate them and cross-pollinate them: next year a new color will emerge.            And every summer the mammals named homo-sapiens-sapiens will come to the mountains to cut down trees, hike trails, and to put up yellow and black signs that read Boundary Experimental Forest U.S.F.S. placed evenly 100 yards apart so hikers are kept excessively informed about boundaries.            Here I am in the midst of this slow-motion interplay of nature. I walk by thousands of trees daily. Sometimes I see just one, sometimes the blur of thousands. It is not so much that a tree teaches me more than a book; rather it conjures up in me the copious leagues of books unwritten. And, I know somewhere inside that I participate. What more hope could a tree offer?  What more hope could you find in a gravestone?•     •     •Day 7.Hiked twenty miles in Alpine country near Mt Adams.More flowers—fields of them. Saw owl. Saw elk.Wrote near cascading creek.Enjoyed walking. Appetite is robust.Camped at Lave Spring.Saw six to ten folks.Didn't talk too much.            Before I was baptized, during the announcements, there was a tremendous screech culminating in a loud cumbf! This is a sound which can be translated here as metal and glass crumpling and shattering in an instant to absorb the forces of automobiles colliding.            In the subsequent prayer, the pastor made mention of the crash, which happened on the very same corner of the chapel, and prayed to God that He might spare those people of injury.            As it turns the peculiarly memorable sound was that of our family automobile folding into itself, and it was either through prayer or her seat belt that no harm came to my sister who was driving it.            Poor thing. She just was going to get some donuts. Do you know why? Because I missed my appointment with baptism. There is time in most church services when people go to the front to (1.) confess their sin, (2.) confess their faith in Christ as their only personal savior, and (3.) to receive Him. This is what is known as the “Altar Call”. To the embarrassment of my parents (for I recall the plan was for one of them to escort me to the front) the Alter Call cue—a specific prayer and hymn—was missed and I sat expectant till the service end. The solution was to attend the subsequent service and try harder.            I don't recall my entire understanding of God and Jesus then, at age eleven, but I do remember arriving at a version of Pascal's reductive decision tree that there are four possibilities regarding my death and salvation:1. Jesus is truly the savior of mankind and I claim him and I go to heaven, or2. Jesus is truly the savior of mankind and I don't claim him and I end up in hell, or3. Jesus isn't the savior of mankind and I die having lived a somewhat virtuous life in trying to model myself after him, or4. Jesus isn't the savior of mankind and I didn't believe it anyhow.            My sister, fresh with an Oregon drivers license, thought one dose of church was enough for her and, being hungry, went out for donuts and failed to yield.Cumbf!            Someone came into the chapel to inform us. We all went out to the accident. The cars were smashed and askew, and my sister was a bawling, rocking little lump on the side of the street. We attended to her, calmed her, and realized there was yet time for me to get baptized. We went into the church and waited patiently for the hymn we had mentally earmarked and then I was baptized. I look back on the calamities of that day affectionately.Prize calamities as your own body.- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching            Those events that surrounded the ritual decry a ceremony so commonplace one often misses the extraordinariness of it; of humanity; the embarrassment of my parents; the frustration and impetuous flight of my sister; and the sympathy and furrowed brow of our pastor. These events unwind in my head like a black and white silent film of Keystone Cops with a church organ revival hymn for the soundtrack.  There was something almost slapstick about how that morning unfolded, and once the dust had settled and the family was relating the story to my grandmother later that day, we began to find the humor in it. Hitting things and missing things and this is sacred. All of it.Because our body is the very source of our calamities,If we have no body, what calamities can we have?- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching            Most religions see the body as temporal and the soul as eternal. Hence, 13th century monks cloistered themselves up denying their bodies space and interaction that their souls might be enhanced.            I see it this way: No one denies their bodily existence, do they? Look, your own hand holds this book. Why do you exist? You exist right now, inherently, to hold a book, and to feel the manifold sensations of the moment.            If this isn't enough of a reason, adjust.            I've heard it said, "Stop living in the way of the world, live in the way of God."            My reply: "Before I was baptized, I heard a cumbf, and it was in the world and I couldn't ignore it.  I'm not convinced we would have a world if we weren't supposed to live in the way of it."Thanks for reading Soundwalk! This is Part One of my 1994 travelogue-meets-memoir The Tread of My Soul. This post is public so feel free to share it.Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Or find the eBook at Apple Books or Amazon Kindle Store. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chadcrouch.substack.com/subscribe

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This week, Nathan answers all the questions that have been burning through your March gardens! Do you have moles? Do you have voles? Is there a difference and what can you do about them? Nathan helps Lee Ann deal with those irritating mammals in the landscape. Invasive wisteria is taking over Joshua's garden, but Nathan has both organic and non-organic options to help control it. Lastly, Kaye wants to build an arbor near a water line but wonders if the vines planted by the arbor will do damage to the water pipes. Nathan gives two situations that might be a concern and recommends certain plants to grow over water lines and some that should be planted elsewhere. Be sure to send us your gardening questions for our April Q&A week episode!

En Irak, pour combattre la pollution au plastique des rues et des fleuves, des initiatives voient le jour ces dernières années. Mais elles font face à un manque d'intérêt d'une partie de la population et l'absence de mesures gouvernementales. Pourtant, le recyclage du plastique, qui reste une pratique isolée, n'est pas une idée nouvelle dans le pays. Avec notre correspondante à Bagdad,Sous nos pieds, une couche de 20 cm de détritus : les berges du tigre ont disparu sous les déchets jetés par les passants. Une centaine de bénévoles de tous les âges s'active pour nettoyer cent mètres de berges en plein cœur de Bagdad. Parmi eux, Qabas et Adnan. « Je vois les gens jeter des bouteilles de soda, d'eau et toutes sortes de déchets. Je m'interroge, comment peuvent-ils faire ça dans leur propre pays ? Ils devraient en prendre soin », estime la première. « C'est un problème de sensibilisation du public, là est tout le problème. Quand tu finis ta boisson, tu devrais la mettre dans un sac ou une poubelle petit à petit. Si Dieu le veut, on l'espère, la société s'améliorera », rétorque le second. C'est la ligne directrice du mouvement Clean Iraq. Il ne s'agit pas juste d'assainir l'environnement, mais de changer les mentalités. Murtadha el-Tameemi, jeune Irako-Canadien à l'origine de l'initiative : « Le gouvernement et les citoyens ont leurs propres responsabilités. La majorité des déchets que l'on collecte est en plastique ou en aluminium. Il pourrait être recyclé. Mais en Irak, nous n'avons pas de poubelles pour le plastique. Donc même si on essaie d'implanter une culture et des comportements dans leur tête, les gens ne pourront pas les appliquer. »« C'est notre gagne-pain »Pour l'heure, les déchets collectés terminent à la décharge municipale. Ici débute un cycle de recyclage, mais il est informel et dangereux. Des enfants et adolescents récupèrent ce qu'ils peuvent en escaladant les monticules déversés par les camions comme Kadhem Khalil. « On peut en tirer l'équivalent de 4 à 6 euros (10 000 ou 7000 IQD) par jour. Je trie et je vends les morceaux pour acheter du lait et des couches. C'est notre gagne-pain », raconte-t-il.Ces acheteurs les revendent ensuite auprès de petites usines de recyclage. Il y en aurait une centaine à Bagdad. Beaucoup sont nées d'une nécessité économique il y a plus de 30 ans, c'est le cas de celle de Hadi Mahmoud. « En 1985, la situation économique était difficile à la fin de la guerre contre l'Iran, je cherchais un moyen pour nourrir ma famille. Dans un petit garage, je collectais quelques déchets », dit-il. Aujourd'hui, ses fils reprennent le flambeau des trois usines familiales avec une nouvelle philosophie. « Notre vision change, on voit une façon d'améliorer la qualité de l'environnement, réduire la taille des décharges, particulièrement maintenant que les températures montent fortement, jusqu'à 50° dans Bagdad », témoigne Hussein Hadi. Ces dernières années, de plus grandes usines de recyclage ont ouvert leurs portes à travers le pays, mais restent encore trop anecdotiques pour créer un réel changement dans la société irakienne.À lire aussiIrak: les fleuves Tigre et Euphrate subissent à nouveau une forte baisse de niveau

Rachel is in East Lothian where local residents are campaigning for better access across the busy A1 road. For a considerable stretch there's no official pedestrian crossing linking the villages close to Dunbar with the coast. And as Rachel sees, it's a very busy road to try and cross as a cyclist or pedestrian.Mark visits Dean Castle in Kilmarnock and finds out about its fascinating history including being completely destroyed by fire before an impressive restoration in 2018.The Covid lockdown led to lots of people taking up new and different hobbies. For author Colin Liddell, his lockdown project was translating all the Gaelic place names noted on maps within 175 square miles of Pitlochry. Rachel chats to Colin about his project and what it has taught him.Earlier this week a new wildlife law aimed at protecting birds of prey and regulating the grouse shooting industry passed its final vote at Holyrood. BBC Scotland's Environment Correspondent Kevin Keane chats to Duncan Orr-Ewing from RSPB Scotland about why they are pleased The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill will be introduced. And he also hears from Ross Ewing from Scottish Land and Estates about the impact this will have on Scottish estates and their concerns.Water voles have been present in Glasgow for hundreds of years. However recently, they have been found in some more unusual locations. Mark finds out about a thriving population of grassland water vole living in and around the Seven Lochs Wetland Park.And we hear more about other urban mammals when we chat live to Rose Toney from the North East Scotland Mammal Network about their new urban mammal groups.For several months now artist Chris Rutterford and several hundred people from the Alloway community have been creating giant paintings on boards, reflecting the local culture and heritage to improve a local railway tunnel. The work has just started to be put up on display, so Rachel headed for a look.In our latest Scotland Outdoors podcast Helen Needham wanders around Glasgow Green with musicians Laura-Beth Salter and Ali Hutton who have created a new album called 'From the Ground' as a response to climate change. We hear an excerpt.Point to point horse racing used to run every weekend between January and March. But now there are only two races in Scotland, both held at Overton Farm near Lanark. The first event is taking place this weekend and Mark went to take a look at the course and find out what's involved in a point to point race.

Producers: Hazel Stark & Joe Horn Host: Hazel Stark Voles are able to stay active in the winter, relying on stored food from the fall and also foraging food through the winter. When there's a fluffy covering of snow, they thrive in the subnivean zone, that narrow space of warmer air between the surface of the ground and the snow cover, where they stay protected from the elements and from many predators. Photos, a full transcript, references, contact information, and more available at thenatureofphenology.wordpress.com. About the host/writers: Joe Horn lives in Gouldsboro, is Co-Founder of Maine Outdoor School, L3C, and is a Registered Maine Guide and Carpenter. He is passionate about fishing, cooking, and making things with his hands. He has both an MBA in Sustainability and an MS focused in Environmental Education. Joe can be reached by emailing naturephenology@gmail.com Hazel Stark lives in Sullivan, is Co-Founder and Naturalist Educator at Maine Outdoor School, L3C, and is a Registered Maine Guide. She loves taking a closer look at nature through the lens of her camera, napping in beds of moss, and taking hikes to high points to see what being tall is all about. She has an MS in Resource Management and Conservation and is a lifelong Maine outdoorswoman. Hazel can be reached by emailing naturephenology@gmail.com The post The Nature of Phenology 3/2/24: Voles first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Love is everywhere: In friendships, in romance, in the songs we listen to, books we read, and movies we see. So whether you love love, hate love, or are somewhere in between, you're still hearing about it all the time. And that means you've probably learned about a molecule called oxytocin, aka the ‘love hormone' or ‘love drug.'Oxytocin was at first considered a hormone strictly for childbirth and nursing. But, starting around 50 years ago, research began to shed light on the vastness of its importance, in part with the help of cute little animals called prairie voles, one of very few species in the animal kingdom who form monogamous bonds.In this episode, Sam and Deboki unpack what we've learned oxytocin can and can't do, why you can't reduce love down to a single molecule, what happens when we not only fall in love but stay in love, and how our brains adapt to the loss of a loved one. Links to the Tiny Show & Tell stories are here and here. Pick up a Tiny Matters mug here! All Tiny Matters transcripts are available here.

In this episode, my guest is Dr. Karen Parker, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Social Neurosciences Research Program at Stanford University School of Medicine. We discuss the biology of social connections and bonding in babies, children and adults. Dr. Parker explains our current understanding of autism and autism spectrum disorders: what they are, why the incidence of autism has increased so dramatically in recent years and both the current and emerging treatments for autism. We also discuss the condition formerly called “Asperger's.” This episode is highly relevant for anyone interested in child and human development, how social bonds and communication form, and those curious about autism and other spectrum conditions. For show notes, including referenced articles and additional resources, please visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman AeroPress: https://aeropress.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Momentous: https://livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. Karen Parker (00:01:30) Sponsors: Eight Sleep, LMNT & AeroPress (00:06:25) Autism, Frequency, Diagnosis (00:10:41) Early Interventions; Heritability & Autistic Traits (00:13:00) Autistic Spectrums; Studying Autism (00:21:29) Environment, Risk Factors & In Utero Development (00:29:55) Sponsor: AG1 (00:31:26) Oxytocin, Vasopressin, Social Behavior & Parent-Child Bonding (00:43:240 Oxytocin in Humans; Social Features of Autism, Intranasal Oxytocin (00:54:14) Sponsor: InsideTracker (00:55:16) Oxytocin & Autism; Benefit & Risks (01:06:30) Neuroplasticity & Autism; Early Intervention; Challenges of Early Diagnosis (01:14:30) MDMA & Autism (01:17:05) Vasopressin, Social Interaction; Voles & Parenthood (01:27:07) Human Social Connection, Oxytocin Levels & Autism (01:33:45) Primate Model of Social Impairment (01:42:47) Preclinical Animal Models, Mouse & Primates (01:47:11) Primates, Biomarkers & Social Connection; Vasopressin (01:52:20) Vasopressin Levels & Autism, Children & In Utero (02:03:06) Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) & Vasopressin; Urination; Alternative Therapies (02:10:32) Intranasal Vasopressin, Children, Autism & Social Responsiveness (02:19:15) Vasopressin & Social Connection, Mechanism & Future Studies (02:26:35) Gut Microbiome & Vasopressin; Scientific Funding (02:34:52) Vasopressin Pathways, Social Behavior, Autism (02:43:00) Vaccine Theory & Autism; Immunology (02:54:06) Zero-Cost Support, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, YouTube Feedback, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer