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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Brazil’s October Election Could Make or Break the Amazon Rainforest; Oppon...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WETS
- Added: Sep 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
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
Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) are wonderful and lots of folks agree. The little town of Bisbee in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:29
Gary McKinney, Spokesman for The People of Red Mountain and Lead Scout for the American Indian Movement-Northeast Nevada, reveals the true cost of ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2022
- Length: 58:00
I grew up in the land of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. And if you grew up in the eastern US, then you did too. It has a very large range in east...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 03:59
This week on the show: Who speaks for the trees? -
We travel to the Brazilian Amazon, where the forest is disappearing at an alarming rate and...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WXDU, and Radio Kansas
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
At my age I should being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I like to tell our daughters Katy and Sarah that some da...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:23
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’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:09
I pursued the Mexican stoneroller ( Campostoma ornatum) for a few minutes trying to get a photo or two before deciding to quit harassing the fish i...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:19
EcoJustice Radio Executive Producer Jack Eidt shares speeches and discussions from multiple street actions on national and international climate,...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Minnesota's Boundary Waters is the most visited wilderness area in the country. Last summer, the entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was s...
- Added: Jun 09, 2022
- Length: 30:00
I forgot to say that false solomon’s seal was formerly in the family Liliaceae, but is now in Asparagaceae. There are 2 subspecies of Maianthemum r...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 04:09
The genus Artemisia is in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. Well, t...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 05:05
Liz Carlisle’s new book explores the origins of the farming practices we need today–in order to reduce the devastating effects of agriculture on ou...
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 54:00
The Amah Mutsun Ohlone are fighting to save their most sacred Indigenous site — a place called Juristac. Contributors Robert Raymond and Della Dunc...
Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Mar 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
