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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
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...
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- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 1
A couple of weeks ago, we did a show on how many greenhouse gas emissions are created by the fashion industry and that got us wondering which indus...
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 03:55
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
The Cuyuna Rock, Gem & Mineral Society will host the 16th annual Agate and Mineral Show this Saturday and Sunday (May 5-6) at the Crow Wing County ...
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- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 14:58
- Purchases: 1
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
Sometimes the setting of the moon is as spectacular as the rising. As it slides down toward the mountains in the horizon it appears larger and larg...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:19
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
