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Points North

Interlochen Public Radio

Points North is an award-winning podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes. Through narrative, sound-rich journalism that is deeply rooted in a sense of place, each episode entertains, informs, and surprises listeners everywhere.

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27:19

Some Things Never Change

Points North ·

2025/03/28

Inside rustic cabins and yurts at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park there are log books. For more than 70 years, visitors have written in them. We went into this time capsule to see if people’s experiences here had changed much over the changing decades._______________________Join the Points North Fan Club today! For just $5/month, you can support the show you love, and we'll send you a Points North beanie, bumper sticker, and some other fun stuff in return.Subscribe to the

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18:02

Bear Trouble

Points North ·

2025/03/14

When a black bear in Minnesota woke up from hibernation in the middle of winter and attacked three people and a dog, researchers were left with one question: Why?

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18:02

Bear Trouble

Points North ·

2025/03/14

When a black bear in Minnesota woke up from hibernation in the middle of winter and attacked three people and a dog, researchers were left with one question: Why?_______Join the Points North Fan Club today! For just $5/month, you can support the show you love, and we'll send you a Points North beanie, bumper sticker, and some other fun stuff in return.Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.

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28:58

Presenting REAP/SOW: Buzzkill

Points North ·

2025/02/28

Americans stepped up to do something about dying bees. Beekeeping is all the rage right now. But what if all those backyard colonies are making the problem worse?

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23:06

Back to the Boundary Waters

Points North ·

2025/02/14

Erik Grams has been taking trips to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota for over 30 years. It’s his favorite place in the world. But last year, during a fishing trip, there was a fatal accident that left Erik wrestling with his feelings about the place he loved.

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19:37

A Sticky Solution for Microplastics

Points North ·

2025/01/31

Microplastics are everywhere. But after accidentally combining materials in a lab, scientists at the University of Michigan are on the cusp of discovering a new method to capture and remove microplastics from water. Researching it takes time, money, and repeated set backs.

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22:40

Big Abe’s Net

Points North ·

2025/01/17

One calm September day, Big Abe LeBlanc set his fishing net in Lake Superior. Then he called law enforcement and turned himself in. What happened next changed fishing in the Great Lakes forever.

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14:32

The Squeaky Sand Phenomenon

Points North ·

2025/01/03

On April 8, 2024, Meghan Hetfield and her partner Roni Pillischer witnessed a total solar eclipse over Lake Ontario. But in the middle of this intense and beautiful experience, something else kept grabbing their attention: the mystery of the squeaky sand all around them.

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14:59

Complete With His Language

Points North ·

2024/12/20

Kenny Pheasant first became a teacher of Anishinaabemowin at 14 years-old, teaching customers from behind the meat counter at a grocery store. Now, it's his life mission to get more people speaking the Great Lakes’ original and endangered language.

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19:26

The Iceman Giveth, The Iceman Taketh

Points North ·

2024/12/06

This is a tale of two cyclists, one legendary race, and an unlikely rivalry.

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22:24

Saving David

Points North ·

2024/11/22

One minute David Holtfreter was kayaking on Lake Michigan; the next he was in the water, fighting for his life. A fisherman saw David struggling from the shore and swam out about 200 yards to rescue him. But in the rescue commotion that followed, David wasn’t able to give the stranger a proper “thank you.”

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12:29

Presenting Atlas Obscura: The Mysterious Sinkholes of...

Points North ·

2024/11/08

One family’s visit to a famous Indiana sand dune turns into a wild tale of a missing boy and mysterious tunnels.

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17:45

The Biggest Buck That Maybe Never Was

Points North ·

2024/10/25

In 1998, a hunter named Mitch Rompola claimed he’d shot the biggest whitetail in North America. It was all over the news, and people waited in anticipation for it to be entered in the record books. But then Mitch just went silent. And instead of becoming a famous hunter, he became an infamous one.

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17:08

A New Hope for Anishinaabemowin

Points North ·

2024/10/11

Last December, Theresa Eischen was watching the news when a story caught her attention. The original Star Wars film was being translated into Anishinaabemowin, an endangered language. Theresa had zero voice acting experience, but she loves Star Wars and is fluent in Anishinaabemowin. So she auditioned to voice Princess Leia. It was a long shot.

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15:53

The Last to Leave

Points North ·

2024/09/27

A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees. They had been wiped out by this beetle called the emerald ash borer. But then, in that same forest, she found a lone tree thriving. Could this tree be the key to saving ash from extinction?

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18:16

Labor of Mixed Emotions

Points North ·

2024/09/13

For more than 20 years, Nic Theisen has spent his days on his hands and knees in the dirt farming. It’s a tough way to make a living, and for years Nic didn’t always know if the farm would make it. Until something big changed.

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19:23

A Natural Ending

Points North ·

2024/08/30

Peter Quakenbush’s dream is to create a conservation burial forest – a place that would both preserve the woods and give people the option to be buried in nature. But not everyone is on board with that idea.

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22:36

Frankenfish

Points North ·

2024/08/16

Lake trout are on life support in Lake Michigan. Every year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spends tens of millions of dollars raising and stocking them. But what if there was another way: genetic engineering. Could it be used for conservation?

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19:51

Shooting a Unicorn

Points North ·

2024/08/02

Two guys are hunting coyotes in Michigan. All of a sudden, they say they lure in the biggest coyote they’ve ever seen and kill it. But, it turns out, it’s not a coyote at all; it’s a federally endangered gray wolf about 300 miles from its normal habitat. So, how did the wolf get there? And did the hunters play any role in it?

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14:28

Pedaling to the Beat of His Own Drum

Points North ·

2024/07/19

There’s this biker in the Upper Peninsula. Seems like everybody knows him or knows of him. He competes in some of the most challenging mountain bike races, but he doesn’t even ride a mountain bike. He competes on a single-speed BMX bike. Why does he do it?

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