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(FT Hannah Waters)

Nature writer Hannah Waters joins us as we talk about Benjamin Rush’s sugar maples with David Hewitt and then, in a rambling, kind of boozy interview, we discuss the five-lined skinks of Pier 53 with biologist and close friend Mike McGraw.

And read more about Pier 53 and its skinks in Grid (page 20)!

A Pier 53 five-lined skink, found by Billy, hiding under the bark of a princess tree.

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(FT Robin Irazarry)

What’s the biggest wild animal in your city? Is it a fish the size of a car? Guest host Robin Irazarry, Philadelphia Watershed Coordinator for the Tookany/Tacony Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) and the brains behind #HerpingTheHood, joins us as we listen to Joe Perillo of the Philadelphia Water Department talk about a notable Philly shortnose sturgeon and to Dewayne Fox, a sturgeon researcher at Delaware State University, discuss our huge aquatic neighbors.

Atlantic Sturgeon collected (and released) by Dewayne Fox and crew under NOAA-NMFS Endangered Species Research Permit #16507.

Want to read more in Grid? Check out Billy’s articles about the sturgeon (see p.16) and the TTF beavers.

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