Selects: Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!
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Selects: Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 26, 202646 min

It’s time to get jazzed up for some Earth science of the waterlogged variety. Join Chuck and Josh in this classic episode as they tour some of the most interesting ecosystems on the planet and learn why we need to stop destroying them post haste. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is an iHeart Podcast, guaranteed human. Hi, everybody. Chuck here, Saturday of 2026, but in COVID time, it's September 10th, 2020. And this is our episode called Wetlands, Wetlands, Wetlands, with exclamation points at the end of each of those words that had to be Josh that came up with that title because it's Josh

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Clarket title as you can ever get. So this is about wetlands, wetlands, wetlands. And I think I picked this one because I just recently took a hike through Dollshead Trail here in Atlanta. It is an urban trail that is decorated with the trash that was formerly in that part. It's sort of an industrial, like the forest next to an industrial part of Atlanta still

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is. And it was kind of a dumping ground. So artists cleaned it up, forged a trail, took that trash, a lot of doll's heads and dolls and kids toys, and they made it into art and a public statement against littering, and it's pretty great. And not only is Dollshead Trail great, and I highly recommend if you live in Atlanta

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