- 125
- Episodes
- 71
- Transcribed
- 482
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Points North
There’s a spirit to the Great Lakes. Points North captures it through true stories of grit, wonder, and adventure alongside America’s inland seas. It’s part documentary, part road trip, part excuse to go somewhere interesting and poke around. New episodes every other Tuesday.
- Publisher
- A Great Lakes Podcast
- Category
- news · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Feb 2022
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
71 of 125 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Don Quixote of Wisconsin
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Tossing and Turning
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The Don Quixote of Wisconsin
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I remember really lush understories of these spring flowers. Carpets bursting with color. Very dainty, soft. Trilliums, hepaticas. Little white flowers, little pink flowers. It was like a scene out of a fairy tale, with names out of a fairy tale. Blooming bellworts and blue bee lilies and violets and Solomon's seal. Years later, Sarah returned to those same forests as a professor of plant biology, hoping to see the delicate carpets of color she remembered. but it was completely different. Many of the flowers and plants in the understory were gone. That's concerning to me as an ecologist. Sarah's not the only ecologist who's noticed this. […]
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- Will Quam
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- Bugsy Sailor
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 318 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 164 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100
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- Quality
- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 91
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