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This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:03
This week on the show: Who speaks for the trees? -
We travel to the Brazilian Amazon, where the forest is disappearing at an alarming rate and...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WXDU, and Radio Kansas
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
This week on the show: Brazil's Karipuna fighting for their forest -
In Brazil, the Karipuna people are threatened by criminal gangs as they try...
Bought by WXDU and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jul 22, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
At my age I should being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I like to tell our daughters Katy and Sarah that some da...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:23
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
The loose rock fandango can get pretty elaborate with elements of modern dance, hokey pokey, ballet and of course some jazz hands thrown into the m...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:00
This week on the show: The textile patterns designes by indigenous weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico are hip with fashion companies who don't always compe...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Dec 03, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Innovative perspectives and ancient forests -
An illegal bus ride with Palestinians to the beach. Cameroonian Baka indig...
- Added: Nov 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:03
The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:59
This is a rambling episode about the summer monsoon in the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. I know that I’ve rambled on like this for many year...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:45
There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:23
I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff.
Native bees that buzz poll...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:43
This week on the show: Here to stay -
In Brazil, indigenous people fear for their livelihoods as a controversial land reform bill would remove ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 29:59
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
This week on the show: Under attack -
Brazil's indigenous population faces a double threat from the coronavirus. Local newspapers die out in ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 30:00
We're easing you into the New Year with a gorgeous listen on this week’s Living Planet - a trip to New Zealand's Waipoua Forest. It's one of the o...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU
- Added: Jan 03, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:32
I think it’s fascinating that there are several species of winterfat found in Eurasia and Europe. That’s where the genus was first described by a G...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:43
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
Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 10:12
Well, I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left some stuff out and so here is what I left...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:55
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus looks like a combinatio...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:31
