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On this episode of The Nature of Idaho, Tate Mason from The Peregrine Fund joins us to talk hawk [hawk] and other raptors at the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise.

Grab your peanuts and your Cracker Jacks, the theme today is baseball, with some vintage baseball themed music, and the legendary Abbott and Costello episode... and an attempt to wrangle the Yesterday Today crew into joining a community ball team.

This week on Sustainable Idaho we are continuing our series on Local and Sustainable businesses and concluding our mini-series with Lane Daley, a Senior Bakery Sustainability Project manager for Clif Bar about the company.

Dr. Ben Miller is a nationally recognized mental health expert and a highly sought-after public speaker. Dr. Miller has presented around the world on the need to make mental health an integral part of health care, most recently testifying before the Senate Committee on Finance about the need for an integrated approach to treating mental health and addiction He is also the author of the weekly newsletter – Mental: Fighting the fragmentation of mental health one policy at a time, where hundreds of subscribers gather to read about how everyday happenings are connected to mental health, and what actions they can take to address them.In this episode, Dr. Miller and I discuss the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the far reaching benefits it will have on the growing national mental health concerns in the Military Veteran community today. Dr. Miller discusses how his Nonprofit, Well Being Trust is spearheading the fight for improvement on systems of care, coverage, community conditions across the national mental healthcare landscape. Dr. Miller shares his relevant mission, vision, and overarching goals to save lives through restoring loving kindness, compassion, dignity, respect, inclusion, equity of opportunity, and social justice.

The goal of the show today is to kick back and take things easy with some music and an episode of Stan Freberg, but Jake's running late and Sydney's heart is set on a stirring performance.

In this episode, Dan shares a discussion with Retired Green Beret, Joe Serna who received three Bronze Stars and two Purple Heart Awards from three combat tours in Afghanistan. Joe describes the familial challenges he endured growing up in a mixed Mexican/ American Indian family of immigrant farm workers who rallied behind equal worker rights with activist Cesar Chavez. Joe carried his family’s hard working heritage into the special forces where he fought alongside coalition forces to defend Liberty and Freedom in Afghanistan. After sustaining life threatening injuries from a suicide bomber attack, Joe experienced fear, depression, PTSD, and Substance Use Disorder with Alcohol which cost him his happiness. Listen and Discover how Joe regained peace in a higher power and enjoys serenity today in part 1 of this series.

This week on Sustainable Idaho we are kicking off a new series on local and sustainable businesses with a focus on what it takes to maintain sustainable business practices.

This, week, join Henry Evans for a curated playlist of reggae songs centered around the idea of persisting in the face of difficult trials and resisting against the forces working against you.

KISU’s Ricky Colapietro interviews Dr. Tracy Collum, the Associate Dean for the Graduate School about the annual Graduate School Book Drive. The book drive began 3 years ago, and is an initiative to gather diverse books for local elementary schools for K-4 students. The book drive kicks off with the fall semester and runs through the end of October, allowing deliveries to local schools in early November. To give, visit https://www.isu.edu/graduate/about/book-drive/ or head on over to a local bookstore to donate to the book drive and support local businesses.

Dean Kandi Turley Ames talks to Professor of Philosophy, Ralph Baergen, and student GioVanna Geller about the undergraduate and graduate Biomedical Ethics Certificates.