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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
The scientific name for Mearns quail is Cyrtonyx montezumae. The genus refers to its big claws for scratching around in desert soils. It has big fe...
- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 05:07
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: United Nations Warns Global Effort on Climate Change Inadequate, Transform...
- Added: Dec 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
This show is all over the place. Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of fall blooming plants and leaves changing color on ot...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:14
The photos are mine and of the plant Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum. It sure is nice to have some white flowers mixed in with the oceans of yellow ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:13
I think it’s fascinating that there are several species of winterfat found in Eurasia and Europe. That’s where the genus was first described by a G...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:43
What is The Red Deal? Tune in to hear one member of The Red Nation share about this movement document and how it aims for the liberation of Indigen...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 14:57
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
Two Indigenous land and water protectors share their experiences of peaceful resistance and consequences it holds both environmentally and legally.
- Added: Nov 06, 2019
- Length: 55:25
From the Amazon to the Congo to California, our planet’s forests are being decimated. And along with them, the stability of our climate. Why? Becau...
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- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 11
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 24, 2019
- Length: 05:02
Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 10:12
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 24, 2019
- Length: 05:13
Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with part two of a former Kansas Poets Laureate reading, sponsored by the Kansas Area Watershed C...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 29:00
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
As Fire Consumes Amazon Rainforest, World Must Demand Action and Accounta...
- Added: Aug 28, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus looks like a combinatio...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:31
It’s always fun to have a quest when headed into the hills. It’s okay if the search doesn’t work out. It’s like the great old line, “getting ther...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:32
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- Added: Jul 25, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: The power of indigenous people -
Indigenous climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa talks about the 'historic moment' for i...
- Added: Jun 20, 2019
- Length: 30:00
Oh my goodness, there are beetles, bees and moths that visit the open flowers of Calylophus harwegii from late afternoon and through the night. Som...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 05:45
I guess I don’t have a whole lot more to add about this show. Well, I have been known to sing a little better than this.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:37
Snow is such an exciting event for those of us living in southern Arizona and when it does snow the local jabber is always about famous snow falls ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 05:07
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 04:57
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: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 05:02
