Episode 14: Dynamic Living Shorelines
In this episode we meet Chris Becraft of Underwood & Associates. Chris designs and builds ecological restoration projects. Chris fills us in on his Assateague State Park Shoreline Resiliency and…
Month: August 2021
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Episode 13: Telescope Night
In this episode, we go back in time to October 21, 2017, and visit Telescope Night at Assateague Island National Seashore. We talk with three volunteers from the Delmarva Space…
Episode 12: My Ever-Changing Dunes
Angela Baldwin manages one of my favorite spots on earth — Maryland’s Assateague State Park. ASP is nestled inside Assateague Island National Seashore, at the north end just before the…
Episode 11: The Beach Beyond
In this episode, I talk with Gretchen Knapp of the National Park Service. Gretchen runs the Visitors Center in Tom’s Cove at the Virginia end. Gretchen and Assateague Island have…
Episode 10: Welcome Visitors
In this episode, I talk with Kelly Taylor of the National Park Service. Kelly manages the Assateague Island National Seashore Visitors Center in Maryland, which sits at the foot of…
Episode 9: AIA
In this episode, we talk with Ashlie Kozlowski, Outreach Coordinator of the Assateague Island Alliance. AIA is the non-profit partner of Assateague Island National Seashore, and it contributes greatly to…
Episode 8: #TrashFreeAssateague
Conversation with Billy Weiland of Assateague Coastal Trust about ACT’s #TrashFreeAssateague project, Hands Across the Sand, his blog The Marsh, and the most important lesson he’s learned from nature (so…
Episode 7: Assateague Beach Voices
Assateague offers solitude and surf, but it also offers something else: community. Day use visitors, Eurovan travelers, Mother’s Day celebrants, weddings, proposals, surfers and surf fishers, horse lovers, stargazers, and…
Episode 6: Native Son
Billy Weiland is a son of Assateague. He grew up here, surfed here, and got his degree from Salisbury U. before leaving for grad school in North Carolina. He’s back…
Episode 5: Wild Horses
This week, Chris & Brady of the Maryland Conservation Corps. share some surprising information about Assateague Island’s legendary wild horses. Are they ponies or horses? The answer to this burning…