{"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":"[Greatest Hits] Central Valley Water and Wetlands with Ellen Wehr","slug":"greatest-hits-central-valley-water-and-wetlands-with-ellen-wehr","published_at":"2024-10-03T20:35:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-state-naturalist-4892350/greatest-hits-central-valley-water-and-wetlands-with-ellen-wehr","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-state-naturalist-4892350","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michellefullner/episodes/Greatest-Hits-Central-Valley-Water-and-Wetlands-with-Ellen-Wehr-e2p6udm","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/746568b8/podcast/play/92551030/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-9-3%2F1ef33b9a-94f6-f5d8-edb1-9d9ef2ca3fbe.mp3","summary":"Did you know that California's Central Valley once contained a vast inland sea and was home to camels, 400 lb. saber-toothed salmon, and tiny four-tusked mastodons? Or that, just a couple of hundred years ago, it was a network of wetlands, peat bogs, riparian forests, and shallow lakes? So how did this place that was once so defined by an abundance of water become somewhere marked by water-related controversy? Come along with me and Ellen Wehr as we discuss the history of this remarkable Valley, the wetlands that remain, and what we can do to both protect and coexist with the many species that still call the Central Valley home today. Links : Fossils! NatGeo on Estuaries NOAA Life in an Estuary Native Tules Nisenan Tribe Sinking Central Valley Wetlands of California's Central Valley (cool interactive map) You can find me on Instagram and Tiktok @goldenstatenaturalist My website is www.goldenstatenaturalist.com MERCH The theme song is called \"i dunno\" by grapes, and you can find it and the Creative Commons License here .","meta_description":"Did you know that California's Central Valley once contained a vast inland sea and was home to camels, 400 lb. saber-toothed salmon, and tiny four-tusked…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4147,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/golden-state-naturalist-4892350/episodes/greatest-hits-central-valley-water-and-wetlands-with-ellen-wehr/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/greatest-hits-central-valley-water-and-wetlands-with-ellen-wehr.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}