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Every Saturday on WTZQ at 7am you can listen to Nature News with Carlton Burke and Dan Lazar.

Naturalist and educator Carlton Burke lives in Mills River, NC where he operates an educational service called “Carolina Mountain Naturalists” which specializes in presenting live animal and nature programs and displays for area schools, summer camps, and many other organizations. Carlton was also on staff for over 25 years as the Curator of Exhibits at the Western North Carolina Nature Center in Asheville, NC. He is also a state and federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator and can be heard each Saturday morning co-hosting NATURE NEWS, a local, hour-long radio program, featuring news from the natural world around the western NC region.

Dan Lazar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse, followed by several years in the Graduate Program in Ecology at North Carolina State University. He served for many years as Director of Education at the Western North Carolina Nature Center, followed by several years as Executive Director of the Colburn Earth Science Museum. Dan has been an instructor in the Blue Ridge Naturalist Program at the North Carolina Arboretum for more than 20 years, teaching classes in ecology, entomology, geology, dendrology, and meteorology. He has been a co-host of Nature News since March of 1993.

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