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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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A postcard from the singing sand dunes of Colorado.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
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
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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...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
Caption: A Fall Garden, Credit: Flickr/Gemma Grace
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...

Bought by WMNR and WMNR


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2