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Michelle Fullner · 72 episodes with transcripts

Golden State Naturalist is a love letter to California's ecological past, present, and future.

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Catalina Foxes with Lauren Dennhardt and Katie Elder

September 10, 2026

Michelle Fullner (0:00)

This episode is brought to you in part by the California Collection by Nature's Seed and the Patreon support of Listeners Like You.

In the summer of 1957, what would eventually become one of the most famous environmental success stories of all time was quietly nudged into action. It wasn't a pleasant nudge. It involved dead birds. After aerial spraying of DDT over a Duxbury, Massachusetts forest, a newspaper reporter named Olga Huggins wrote a…

Lauren Dennhardt (4:14)

They're descended from gray foxes. They evolved somewhere between 6,000, 12,000 years ago. Don't know how they got here. They could have come over naturally, like rafted over, or they could have been introduced by the Gabrielino Tongva, who were the original inhabitants of the island.

We don't know.

Michelle Fullner (4:34)

So we're not sure about the origin of these foxes, but Lauren shared what we do know.

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