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The photos are mine of the Mirabilis longiflora flowers and Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth and tobacco hornworm. Note the seven streamline...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:21
San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 05:08
I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:01
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:01
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native flora and fauna can cure th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:35
I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:18
The genus Artemisia is found in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. W...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 05:04
I do love wandering around little towns and Willcox is fun. And by the way, it was my friend and Willcox resident Steve Marlatt who reminded me of ...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:55
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 05:14
The weather has been nice to The Rough Draft Diaries so we're heading outside yet again for this week's episode. We're at Woodlawn Cemetery and Arb...
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 06:16
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you’ll meet Marilyn DuFour, Toledo Environmental Services senior environmental specialist. Are you ready to l...
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- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 06:49
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we meet Hal Mann, the president of the Wild Ones Oak Openings Region Chapter. Find out what Wild Ones d...
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- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 06:42
- Purchases: 1
This week The Rough Draft Diaries meets Yvonne Dubielak the Outreach and Education Director at the Toledo Botanical Garden. We're talking about one...
- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 06:10
Wade Wipperling tells how a stack of unstable bales of hay fell on his head, breaking his neck.
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- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
Victor Jensen, tells about finding his dear friend face down in the bedding of a pasture…”the bull had gotten him”.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:56
Chris Furrer [FUR] describes a frightening incident rolling over his tractor on their dairy farm.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:47
Scott Furrer [FUR], dairy farmer, describes how his son Chris got his hand caught between a flywheel and shield, burning off the top of his fingers.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 01:39
Russell Zacharison tells the story of how he got pinned down by his ATV for eight hours out in his pasture.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 03:14
Ron McHargue [mic-KAR-guh'] describes to son Mike his fall from a ladder on a metal grain tank
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- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:35
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Gloria Edwards tells how her child fell into their dairy farm manure pit while playing.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:17
Diana Hansen, wheat farmer, recounts losing her arm, relearning to do everything and refusing to be a victim.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:01
Brett Schrom [sh'-RAHM], a hay grower/beef producer, describes to his sister Neesha how his harobed threw him off.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 05:26
