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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
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
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
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
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
I don’t know any poultry fanciers that don’t have a guinea fowl story or two or three. Chickens are where it usually starts as they are the gateway...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 05:10
Calliandra is a beautiful plant name. I like the way a genus name can sometimes become the common name as well. I wonder how many baby girls of bot...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:07
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:13
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:23
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as I stat...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:16
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
Bobby speaks, on location, with Ben Coletti, Director of Operations at The Thunderbird Beach Resort. They discuss growing up on the redneck beaches...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 01:30:52
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman. In this essay A...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 2
