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No joke, the best and last line of defense to protect the drinking water for an entire city in Poland is eight clams. Let's chat about bivalve scie...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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 16, 2020
- Length: 05:19
The Bighorn Fire in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, AZ. started on June 5th of 2020 and as I sit and write this a few weeks later on June 30th ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 05:16
The miller moths that showed up at our little homestead are the adult of the army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) and they migrate from lower areas and ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 05:26
These day trips of ours into the hills are so renewing. The particular canyon that I talking about is very close to our home and within 30 or 40 mi...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 05:13
The changing of the seasons creates change in many aspects of our lives, days get shorter, temperatures fall and we even set our clocks back an hou...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 30:40
We have always tried to get out to hike and picnic in wild places around us here in Cochise County, Arizona. I still go out by myself to botanize a...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:02
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen in...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:07
I like the name sumac. I learned it when I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was poison sumac or poison ivy, but there...
- Added: May 04, 2020
- Length: 05:40
In their weekly natural history talk, Harry Hutchins and Phenologist John Latimer talk about signs of spring and how to call in Barred Owls.
- Added: Mar 31, 2020
- Length: 13:46
March really is the month of change around all of us in the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. How fun to celebrate the arrival of turkey vulture...
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 04:48
My name is Desi Stanerson and I am a Senior in Biomedical Engineering with a double major in Molecular and Cellular Biology. My current research is...
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 04:47
White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably r...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 05:12
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: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:32
Victor “Blue” Paat is a undergraduate senior studying Neuroscience and Cognitive Science with minors in Biochemistry and Music. He currently studie...
- Added: Aug 01, 2019
- Length: 04:29
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 05:12
Today on Culture Clique we talk to Winona County Extension Master Gardener, Debra Martin. We caught up with Debra at the Winona Public Library wher...
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 17:48
It’s a natural sugary treat that goes perfect with pancakes, on this episode of Culture Clique we learn how to make maple syrup. From finding the r...
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 12:47
I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more about jojoba (Simmondsia chinesis) other than what you hear in this show, except that it is now in its own ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:20
It’s true that life in southeastern Arizona is full of “behold!” moments. It is so exciting to live in such a diverse land, both in plants and anim...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Culture Clique, we talk to Captain Aaron Repinski of the Winona Tour boat. Aaron tells us about the history of the Mississippi R...
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 21:40
Image Consultant and Editor in Chief of La Fashionista Compassionista Adrienne Borgersen is on the show to talk about the ABC's of fashion, how to ...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 1
Petey peers into an old bird nest in a tree and discovers the work of a deer mouse.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:14