Latest Margaretfrisbie Podcast Episodes
Nature Inspires Art
Inside Out & About - October 19, 2022 19:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode of Inside, Out & About we explore the confluence of nature and art with acclaimed artist Ben Miller and Friends of the Chicago River Executive Director Margaret Frisbie. Miller works in a unique painting style with a rod and reel in a process he calls "fly cast painting." In th...
STORY 12: The Beauty of Dark Sky Places
Inside Out & About - April 21, 2022 15:52 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode we speak with Ashley Wislon the director of conservation for the International Dark Sky Association (IDA). In 2021, the IDA named Forest Preserves of Cook County’s Palos Preserves, in partnership with the Adler Planetarium, as the largest Urban Night Sky Place in the world. The P...
An Opportunity for Water in Cities
Inside Out & About - February 26, 2022 04:35 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode of Inside, Out & About we are joined by Mary Pat McGuire, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and director of Water Lab. McGuire talks about the relationship between water and pavement, and the vital need to rethink our ...
Episode 10 Inspiring Leaders and Ideas
Inside Out & About - January 14, 2022 23:43 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOur Inside, Out & About series is expanding in its second year to feature people whose work inspires action and advocacy for the natural world; advancing ideas and strategies of how we can all work together to and improve and protect the river system for people, plants, and animals. The featur...
Students learn from the Chicago River
Inside Out & About - November 03, 2021 16:41 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSolorio Academy High School chemistry and environmental science teacher Greta Kringle - the 2019 recipient of our Educator of the Year award - successfully uses the Chicago River as a teaching tool to help her students learn science develop a sense of stewardship for the river and its wildlife. ...
Crooked Creek, A Flowing Beauty
Inside Out & About - October 22, 2021 21:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTraversing through the Palos Preserves of southwest Cook County, Illinois – the largest concentration of preserved land in the Forest Preserves of the county– is beautiful Crooked Creek. A winding tributary to the Cal-Sag Channel, which is a part of the Chicago River system, Crooked Creek and th...
Whistler Woods
Inside Out & About - October 08, 2021 16:11 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode we take you on a journey to Whistler Woods in south suburban Riverdale, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. The 137-acre forest preserve along the Little Calumet River is an excellent site to see a wide diversity of bird species and to explore the historic Major Taylor Trail named...
Wampum Lake
Inside Out & About - September 24, 2021 22:33 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWampum Lake forest preserve is located in south suburban Cook County near Thornton, Illinois. At 412-acres it includes the Wampum Lake Nature Preserve, a mosaic of sand seep, freshwater marsh, dry-mesic upland forest, wet floodplain forest and an eroding bluff community located along Thorn Creek...
Big Marsh Park
Inside Out & About - July 16, 2021 21:19 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHosted by Friends’ Executive Director Margaret Frisbie, this episode includes interviews with Stephen Bell, park supervisor for Big Marsh Park, who discusses the history and restoration efforts at Big Marsh as well as upcoming plans. Chicago sound artist, designer and composer Norman Long, also ...
LaBagh Woods
Inside Out & About - June 04, 2021 15:53 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne of Chicago's wildest places, LaBagh Woods in located on the Upper North Branch of the Chicago River on city's Northwest Side. In this episode Liza Lehrer, Assistant Director, Urban Wildlife Institute and Chicago Lead at the Urban Wildlife Information Network, discusses the Chicago region's ...
Beaubien Woods
Inside Out & About - May 07, 2021 23:38 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode Chris Anchor, senior wildlife biologist for the Forest Preserves of Cook County, discusses how osprey are increasing along the Chicago River system due to a FPCC program that has installed about 20 constructed osprey nesting platforms so far. From Openlands, Aquatic Ecologist L...
Inside, Out & About: Bubbly Creek
Inside Out & About - March 26, 2021 14:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHosted by Friends’ Executive Director Margaret Frisbie, this episode includes interviews with Emmy Award-winning public television writer, producer, and program host Geoffrey Baer; Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History; and James Burns, pr...
Inside, Out & About
Inside Out & About - March 02, 2021 17:57 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoin Friends of the Chicago River’s Executive Director Margaret Frisbie on a journey to the Kickapoo Woods Forest Preserve on the banks of the Little Calumet River in the Chicago suburb of Riverdale. Get to know Bridgehouse Museum Director Josh Coles and volunteer site steward and former Chicago...
Inside, Out & About
Inside Out & About - February 03, 2021 15:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode Friends of the Chicago River's Executive Director Margaret Frisbie explores the history and natural history of the Chicago Portage National Historic Site which was a critical transit point between the Mississippi and the Great Lakes. Joining Frisbie are Gary Mechanic, founder of ...
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