{"podcast":{"title":"Golden State Naturalist","slug":"golden-state-naturalist-4892350","podcast_index_feed_id":4892350,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/746568b8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.goldenstatenaturalist.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/19428030/19428030-1692748286573-95fcdba4aa88e.jpg","author":"Michelle Fullner","episode_count":68,"summary":"Golden State Naturalist is a love letter to California's ecological past, present, and future. Come with Michelle Fullner as she climbs to the top of a beaver dam, descends into a tar pit, peers into the canopy of a giant sequoia, and basks in the glow of the Milky Way under the eerie silhouettes of Joshua trees. Each episode, Michelle interviews captivating experts in their natural habitats across California to find out how the unique plants, animals, geology, and hydrology of this biodiversity hotspot make this state Golden.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T12:18:22.826505+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-state-naturalist-4892350"},"episode":{"title":"BONUS: Leave the Leaves with David Mizejewski","slug":"bonus-leave-the-leaves-with-david-mizejewski","published_at":"2024-10-17T23:42:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-state-naturalist-4892350/bonus-leave-the-leaves-with-david-mizejewski","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-state-naturalist-4892350","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michellefullner/episodes/BONUS-Leave-the-Leaves-with-David-Mizejewski-e2pqoc3","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/746568b8/podcast/play/93200195/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-9-17%2Ffab3d7d7-db41-3953-82fb-f9872fb95313.mp3","summary":"It's fall! And all around the country, tidy piles of raked leaves rest on the corners of lawns, ready to be bagged up and thrown away. But throwing away leaves means throwing away free mulch and fertilizer. It also means throwing away habitat and belching methane into the atmosphere. Join me and National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski as we discuss the benefits of leaving the leaves, the harms of removing them, and the kind of abundance we can buoy right outside our doors by embracing the natural habitat building opportunities all around us. Learn more about leaving the leaves . Support Golden State Naturalist on ⁠Patreon⁠ and get perks starting at $4/month. Follow me on ⁠Instagram⁠ . My website is ⁠goldenstatenaturalist.com⁠ . Golden State Naturalist Merch","meta_description":"It's fall! And all around the country, tidy piles of raked leaves rest on the corners of lawns, ready to be bagged up and thrown away. But throwing away l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3115,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/golden-state-naturalist-4892350/episodes/bonus-leave-the-leaves-with-david-mizejewski/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-state-naturalist-4892350/bonus-leave-the-leaves-with-david-mizejewski.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}