Series: Tales from Urban Forests

Produced by Soundprint

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Tales from Urban Forests: a series of 3 hour-long documentaries and 10 short features on the value of trees in urban environments.

A multi-part, multi-format radio series on how trees are impacting a city near you.


Additional Files

  • A small button that you can use to link to our website, http://trees.soundprint.org, where your audience can see pictures, listen to the pieces again, and get more information about the issues presented in the piece. (treeButton.jpg)
  • Use this picture as an image to link to our website, http://trees.soundprint.org, where your audience can see pictures, listen to the pieces again, and get more information about the issues presented in the piece. (trees.jpg)
  • Press Release for stations to use (pralert.doc)
  • 10 second series promo (all10.mp2)
  • Text for Promos for All Shows (tfufpromotext)
  • 30 second series promo (all30.mp2)
  • 20 second series promo (all20.mp2)

13 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Part 2 of the three part special documentary series on Urban Forests, from Soundprint. We visit the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, to see the effec...

Bought by KDNK, KUOW, WNPR, WCQS, WFUV and more


  • Added: May 12, 2006
  • Length: 00:58:55
  • Purchases: 7
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Part 3 of the three part special documentary series on Urban Forests, from Soundprint. We look at the social and psychological benefits of trees i...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KDNK, KUOW, WNPR, WCQS and more


  • Added: May 12, 2006
  • Length: 00:58:55
  • Purchases: 8
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Part one of the 3 part special documentary series on Urban Forests, from Soundprint. We look at the history of Greenery in city planning, from Tho...

Bought by KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KALW, KQED, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2006
  • Length: 00:58:55
  • Purchases: 12
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A look at the problems plaguing the Bay and the use of riparian buffers and green to help improve the health of the waterway.

Bought by WCQS, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCOM, KFAI and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:03:59
  • Purchases: 6
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How one landowner is converting old, abused farmland back to forest to improve the health of the creek on his property in the Chesapeake Bay waters...

Bought by WCQS, WFUV, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCOM and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:05:11
  • Purchases: 6
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How one urban high school is using Geographic Information Systems software in their efforts to increase tree canopy in the nation’s capital.

Bought by KSJD, WCQS, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCOM and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:04:44
  • Purchases: 7
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An urban project in Baltimore, Maryland where scientists, city officials, and community organizations have joined forces to regreen neighborhoods i...

Bought by KUOW, WNPR, KWCW, WCQS, WKNO and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:04:40
  • Purchases: 9
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A look at NASA research on the urban heat island problem in Atlanta and what the city doing to overcome the problem, such as the planting of trees ...

Bought by WNPR, WCQS, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCOM and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:04:00
  • Purchases: 6
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What living in a hot urban center means for respiratory health.

Bought by KUOW, WCQS, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCOM and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:03:49
  • Purchases: 6
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How one city is incorporating increased green space in new development.

Bought by WCQS, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCOM, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:04:10
  • Purchases: 6
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This publicly loved tree is native to the Seattle area, but its living conditions are being increasingly threatened by urban development. What’s i...

Bought by WCQS, WFUV, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:05:31
  • Purchases: 6
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The relationship between trees and salmon in the northwest, and how one city is embarking on an ambitious plan to save both.

Bought by WCQS, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio, KUOW, WCOM and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:04:20
  • Purchases: 6
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Does strolling through a tree lined shopping district, mean forking over more cash? A look at the connection between trees and commerce.

Bought by WNPR, WCQS, WFUV, WKNO, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 00:05:15
  • Purchases: 10