Natural Resources University
Hosted by Drew Ricketts and Eric and Jacob and Joe Gerken and Marcus Lashley and Will Gulsby · Collaboration of land-grant universities
5.0from 160 ratings
- 632
- Episodes
- 371
- Transcribed
- 160
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 643K
- YouTube views
About Natural Resources University
Natural Resources University is a podcast network focused on delivering science-based natural resource management. The series housed within this network aim to deliver expert-based knowledge for their corresponding genre of natural resource management.
- Publisher
- Collaboration of land-grant universities
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
371 of 632 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The squirrely way oak ecosystems are shaped | Wild Turkey Science #625
10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Emerald Ash Borer with Dr. Colin Bonser | Timber University #624
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Deer Biomechanics and Deer-Friendly Fencing | Deer University #623
Inside a recent episode
The squirrely way oak ecosystems are shaped | Wild Turkey Science #625
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that's a big part of how squirrels choose to what they eat at the moment versus what they cache. They tend to cache those red oak acorns and eat the white oak acorns when they're available. But even among those red oak, those acorns, there are acorns of varying quality. And so the ones that have been cached are the ones that have already been vetted sort of by a squirrel. So to me, what it's really changing is that sort of that need for that conspecific to assess the quality of an acorn, go through those infested ones, put itself through that potentially risky process of investigating, keeping its head down, doing all of those things that take energy, they take effort, they You know, they put that squirrel in a position where otherwise it could otherwise it could just go find the good acorn if it watched its, you know, its neighbor go bury the acorn over there. […]
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- Alex Potash
- Colin Bonser
- Gino D'Angelo
- Lisa Jorge
- James Callicutt
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- YouTube views
- 643,367
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 122 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 38 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts Natural Resources University?
Drew Ricketts and Eric and Jacob and Joe Gerken and Marcus Lashley and Will Gulsby host the show. Published by Collaboration of land-grant universities.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Natural Resources University take guests?
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