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“Known as the ‘apostle of the cacti,’ this advocate for the creation of desert national parks was named after this ancient Roman goddess ….” If tha...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 28:00
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
San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 05:08
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
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
- 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
Tim Stover is a sculptor exploring the medium of glass, creating work through two different methods. One, reassembling broken sections of glass int...
- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 06:14
It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...
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- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In these last days of this cruel summer, as our wilderness burns, what we can we learn from the Other Life, the world of our pandemic dreams and un...
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- Added: Sep 18, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Today, we're talking to Adam Cassi, who has his degree in Restoration Ecology from Defiance College, and is currently the Executive Director for K...
- Added: Aug 03, 2020
- Length: 06:22
In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit, we'll be returning to the world of science to get an update about the present struggles of Lake...
- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 06:08
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
For the month of April, The Rough Draft Diaries is going to bring you a short series of phone interviews detailing how the community has been affec...
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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
Eric Kraus is the project founder/coordinator and President of Standing Rush, but he's also an adviser to Toledo Public School's Aerospace and Natu...
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 06:12
The Rough Draft Diaries is finally covering The Old West End Festival! This week we'll chat with members of the OWE Festival board to get a behind-...
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 06:01
This week The RDD is at Toledo Bikes! a non-profit organization dedicated to the recovery of used bikes, recycling those bikes through volunteer an...
- Added: May 20, 2019
- Length: 06:16
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we head over to South Toledo to hang out with the HIstoric South Initiative, an organization that is working t...
- Added: Oct 15, 2018
- Length: 06:12
