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On this new episode of YBYG, Mike gives you the buzz on Hornet Nests in trees and the ground! Plus your 'Buzzy' phone calls!!
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 54:59
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
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 28:00
Herbalism is seeing a huge rise in popularity, as more and more people turn to natural remedies to keep their bodies healthy. In this episode of Gr...
- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 17:38
What does the cave art of 30,000 years ago have to do with the new Solar Orbiter we sent from Planet Earth to explore our star? Quite a lot, it tur...
- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 28:00
We revisit Sarah Aronson's interview with Doug Chadwick from 2017. Wildlife biologist and author Doug Chadwick engages in a lively discussion aroun...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times.
New soundscapes b...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 22, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:14
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 27, 2020
- Length: 05:02
Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and "military flares" is nev...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and the botanical name of clammy weed is Polanisia dodecandra. They are both in the Cleome family Cleomaceae....
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 04:36
Personal narrative describing a way to cope with uncertainty during the pandemic, and a reassessment of safety and risk following the largest earth...
- Added: Sep 19, 2020
- Length: 05:33
You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 05:13
Burrowed down through another Extreme Heat Event, we send this radio dispatch to you. The world has gone mad, why not join the fun? Join the revolu...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 04, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Hummingbird trumpet has had quite a few botanical names and I’m still not sure that I got the current botanical right in this episode. I called it ...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 05:01
Remember last August, a year ago, when the national media found it very funny that presidential candidate Marianne Williamson mentioned the "dark p...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Aug 28, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
At my age I should probably being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I tell our daughters that some day they can hav...
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 05:17
There was an all-too brief renaissance in American film in the 1970s, when writers and directors were free to experiment with radically different s...
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 03:18
Many years ago when I was running a nursery in Tucson, Arizona I was invited by a landscape architecture firm to supply the all plants for a landsc...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 04:48
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus name looks like a combi...
- Added: Aug 12, 2020
- Length: 05:30
Since producing this episode of Growing Native we have encountered Jatropha macrorhiza a couple more times. A recent sighting was over near the New...
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 05:17
Raspberries are in the rose family, Rosaceae, the genus Rubus and with six species in Arizona. Five are native species and one introduced. Rubus id...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 05:17
One of the recurring motifs in Alfred Hitchcock’s films concerns a woman who suspects a loved one of being a monster. In his 1936 film Sabotage, th...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 03:28
Phemeranthus aurantiacus, the former Talinum aurantiacum, is now in Talinaceae, the flameflower family, “a family of two genera and 28 species.” Th...
- Added: Jul 25, 2020
- Length: 04:45
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
