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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
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Our one flowering wildflower on this wonderful day was the very pretty perennial called penny cress or candy tufts. It is the former Thlaspi fendl...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:36
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When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:03
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Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:44
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This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:52
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I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:07
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I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:53
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The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
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A postcard about wildfire from the Sierra Nevada.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:21
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I revealed most of my personal chicken history in this show. It is an ongoing saga, though I am much more in control of my crazy love for chickens....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2019
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
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The next earthquake is likely to happen when you least expect it. Relatively infrequent events are hard to plan for. Geologist Lori Dengler advise...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
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This is a sweet segment on one of the smallest but best known little birds.

Bought by KDUR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 3