USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

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Welcome to “Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center.” We’re located along the Potomac River in historic Shepherdstown, WV and are home to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Throughout this series, we’ll be talking with experts, authors and a variety of other guests to bring you the most up-to-date information, events, and happenings here at the National Conservation Training Center. Thanks for listening, and we hope you enjoy. For transcripts of our podcasts, go to https://ow.ly/gxll50PwHLN

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NCTC: Who We Are

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

04/30/21 • 33 min

In this episode of Thoughts From Home, Mark Madison, our Fish and Wildlife Historian, talks with the NCTC Director, Steve Chase, about NCTC, who we are, what we do and other information you may not know.

NCTC's 25th Anniversary!

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

04/25/22 • 45 min

The NCTC is celebrating its 25th Anniversary! In this podcast, Steve Chase, NCTC Director, and Mark Madison, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Historian, reflect on the past and speculate the future of NCTC’s next 25 years.

Cicadas! Dr. Jim Siegel explains this natural phenomenon happening every 17 years.

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

06/11/21 • 14 min

During the Great Eastern Brood of periodical cicadas Catherine Woodward, Fish and Wildlife Biologist and Jim Siegel, Ecology Curriculum Manager from the National Conservation Training Center talk about this natural phenomenon and wildlife spectacle of millions of cicadas emerging from the soil after seventeen years and answer many questions about these insects.

Off the Shelf - The Home Place

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

07/28/21 • 12 min

Catherine Woodward, Fish and Wildlife Biologist in the USFWS Conservation Library introduces a series called Off the Shelf, where she hopes to inspire you and other readers to connect with conservation literature and nature writing, as she talks about books pulled from the library shelves. The Home Place: A Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by Dr. J. Drew Lanham is a powerful and motivating memoir and the main themes discussed are home, conservationists of color, and how we each play a role in conservation.

Spring Frogs and Toads at the NCTC

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

08/19/21 • 8 min

Dr. Jim Siegel, US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and NCTC Ecology curriculum manager, reviews the calls of the most common frogs and toads that can be heard at the NCTC each spring. Hearing the intricate descriptions and sounds of the frogs and toads, you can envision being near the springtime ponds at the NCTC.

What is NYCALC?

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

09/30/21 • 19 min

Ever wonder what the Native Youth Community Adaptation and Leadership Congress (NYCALC) is all about? In this podcast you'll learn about NYCALC and hear participants' reactions to the program.

Creepy Crawly and Misunderstood Wildlife - Part 1

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

01/27/22 • 26 min

Some creepy crawly and misunderstood wildlife, like spiders, bats, and raccoons offer a lot of benefits to our environment and we'd like to shed some positive light on those important ecoservices. In Part 1 of the Creepy Crawly and Misunderstood Wildlife podcast, the team talks about spiders, bats, and raccoons. Spiders are hardy builders, using their cable-like silk to create intricate webs to catch up to 14 times their own weight in insect prey. Bats are a unique species, flying mammals that navigate their environment via echolocation and most North American bats are entirely insectivorous, with some individual bats consuming up to 4,500 flying insects per night. Raccoons are important predators of wasps nests, but they also eat wild fruits, crayfish, and mice.

Creepy Crawly and Misunderstood Wildlife - Part 2

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

01/27/22 • 23 min

Some creepy crawly and misunderstood wildlife offer a lot of benefits to our environment. In Part 2 of the Creepy Crawly and Misunderstood Wildlife podcast, the team talks about skunks, opossums, and snakes and their important ecoservices. Skunks, opossums and snakes are some of the most efficient and effective natural pest controllers! Snakes keep prey populations in balance. The skunk's charm is in their adaptive and versatile diet, which includes insects, grubs, mice and more. Killing up to 5,000 ticks in a season, opossums are friends in eradicating ticks!

Celebrating 60 Years of Silent Spring!

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

04/12/22 • 28 min

The USFWS Library is celebrating 60 years of Silent Spring! This April, we're reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the classic that launched the environmental movement for America's Wild Read. Conservation hero Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was a renowned author and one of the first female biologists to work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She became one of the most celebrated and beloved science writers in America, but it is easy to forget how controversial Silent Spring was when it was released despite now being a classic of conservation literature.

Celebrating Earth Day 2025: Status of Bald Eagles and Migratory Songbirds’ Conservation

USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center

04/24/25 • 19 min

In this episode Randy Robinson and Jim Siegel present an update on the NCTC’s eagle nest and the tragedy that affected our beloved Bald Eagle pair (Bella and Scout). But not everything is bad news for the eagles, we also learn about how this species has been a huge conservation success story. Because every day is Earth Day at NCTC, Jim and Randy also discuss issues related to migratory songbirds and what are some things you can do at home to help their stories become conservation success stories.

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USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center currently has 29 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Fish, Wildlife, Podcasts, Service and Government.

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The episode title 'Cicadas! Dr. Jim Siegel explains this natural phenomenon happening every 17 years.' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center is 22 minutes.

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Episodes of USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center are typically released every 37 days.

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The first episode of USFWS/NCTC Thoughts From Home: Your Conservation Podcast from the National Conservation Training Center was released on Apr 30, 2021.

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