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Montane Driftwood

Montana Public Radio | By Beth Anne Austein

Published May 2, 2014 at 8:00 AM MDT

5/4/14 & 5/5/14: This week on "Fieldnotes:" "Of Driftwood and Journeys," by Anna McNairy.

"Driftwood pools - which can account for up to eighty percent of all pools in a stream - are full of food and flow more slowly than the passing current. Cool and dark, these pools allow various types and ages of fish to co-exist in a sheltered spot where predators aren't lurking. Juvenile coho salmon take over the water's surface, while cutthroat trout idle near the bottom and one-year-old steelhead trout stay in the upstream head of the pool."

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Beth Anne Austein

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.

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