Following the Tracks

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The Great American War on Coyotes

Recorded last March, Sammi and Giselle talk about the history of coyotes in America, how they are managed in today's world, and how we can coexist with them.

Aug 4 2023
49 min

Bighorn Sheep Respiratory Disease with Sidney Brenkus

In this episode Giselle and Sammi interview Sidney Brenkus about her research project on bighorn sheep respiratory disease. Follow us on Instagram! @followingthetracks

Mar 7 2023
50 min

The Decline of the Monarch Butterfly: How a Warming Climate is Affecting Our Insects

Hosts Sammi and Giselle discuss a new paper by Dr. Erin Zylstra et. al. titled "Changes in climate drive recent monarch butterfly dynamics." We look at the three hypothes

May 26 2022
57 min

White Hares in a Brown Forest: Climate Change Causes Camouflage Mismatch

Join your hosts Sammi Shimota and Giselle Ray, along with guest Frankie Garland as we discuss how climate change is altering the snowshoe hare's habitat from the paper "C

Apr 9 2022
35 min

How Wolves Alter Boreal Forests by Preying on Ecosystem Engineers

Sammi and Giselle discuss a recent paper by Thomas Gable et. al. called "Outsized effect of predation: Wolves alter wetland creation and recolonization by killing ecosyst

Feb 5 2022
43 min

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What a great idea to take a research paper and turn it into relevant discussion about the environment and our future. And with just the right dash of goofy humor!! Keep up the good work!!

TheyCallMeDeeel · Apr 2022

The kind of conversations I WISH I could have at a party. This podcast is a fun, insightful, and an important listen. Great work folks. Keep it up!

Patfan1222 · Apr 2022

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