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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
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
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
Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 03:47
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
Traveling the west with an Aeolian Harp: listening in dry lake beds, great sand dunes, and the world's largest living organism, Pando Aspen Grove /...
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- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 31:07
- Purchases: 1
Listening to The Disintegration Loops during wildfire season -- a review of William Basinski’s seminal album as a meditation on looping thoughts, p...
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- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 33:31
- Purchases: 1
A postcard from Lake Titicaca, Peru.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
A postcard from the singing sand dunes of Colorado.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...
- Added: Jul 04, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:14
From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and a...
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- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
It has always been my dream to live on a sailboat and travel the world. In this short audio piece, I invite the listener into the first step in the...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 05:03
Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 05:22
Tumbleweed and careless weed are here to stay and though careless weed is an Arizona native (Amaranthus palmeri) it certainly appears, at least to ...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 05:19
The Ol’ Guajolote is not alive with critters by the time it runs by our home.
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 05:05
How did Ooo Ahh Point on the South Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon get it’s name?
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 05:03
A pleasant 4.1 mile hike west of the Tucson Mountains with big views.
Recorded and produced by Eb Eberlein. Join the Arizona Trails Community at ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 04:33
During our drought many animals are in need of reliable water supply. Attract birds to you with a simple water feature.
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Paddle Minnesota producer Jim Gallagher shares an audio postcard from a canoe trip he took during the summer of 2015 in the barren lands at the cen...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 07:39
When you want fresh vegetables through the fall, you'll want to plant now. Charlie also explains why it's good to be merciless in the mid-summer ga...
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?
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- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1