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My goodness, there are times that I so miss the Sonoran Desert, especially when I leave the desert grassland and get into the diverse vegetation th...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 05:10
When I was little boy I thought the name yellow-bellied sapsucker was the funniest thing I’d ever heard and though I did know it was some sort of b...
- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 05:23
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on a landscape of special importance to him on the coast of Iceland, and the ways th...
- Added: Feb 18, 2020
- Length: 05:52
This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story about resilience and rebuilding after a megafire decimated parts of Northern California. This is ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2020
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 3
Carbon offset programs offer ways for retailers and consumers to help address the challenge of climate impacts and environmental consequences, and ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 10:51
I enjoy hearing friends talk about the plants that they’ve seen on walks or hikes and when we share our enthusiasm the jabbering is so sweet.
- Added: Feb 09, 2020
- Length: 04:49
Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s probabl...
- Added: Feb 06, 2020
- Length: 05:01
Since the mid 2000s, economists have spoken of Black Swans, disruptive financial events that embody three special characteristics: they are rare, w...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 05:52
Whenever I do of my “pictures and stories” presentations I always show some photos of our chickens, followed by photos of some of the wildlife they...
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 05:16
The climate is in crisis, and the next generation is committed to and has been successful in raising awareness, demanding political action, seeking...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 05:31
This week on World Ocean Radio we highlight the innovative work of the Sasagawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, an organization using philanthrop...
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 05:48
This week, Petey talks about his experience at the March on Frankfort.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 05:28
There are five species of mistletoe found in Arizona and they all can be found somewhere in southern Arizona at various elevations and on different...
- Added: Jan 17, 2020
- Length: 05:12
Moken is a Thai word meaning sea people, people of water, sea nomads or sea gypsies. The Moken are a group of Austronesian people of an archipelago...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 05:32
Eumorpha typhon or the Typhon sphinx moth is out and about from June to August in the borderlands. I realized very quickly that we had everything t...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 05:10
In the middle ages, alchemists for a time believed they could turn base metal into gold. This early endeavor may be the origin story for modern inv...
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 04:31
There is a road across the grassland and I still go there for stories. I suspect that everyone needs a road or trail or special wild place that mak...
- Added: Jan 03, 2020
- Length: 04:51
We love our annual tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from 30 years ago…kids and dogs and Christmas trees.
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 05:51
Can you believe I was whining about rainfall? It’s funny because as Ms. Mesquitey and I were driving to and from Cascabel we talked about coming ba...
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 05:07
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 on World Ocean Radio we tell a tale of two cities--Newtok, Alaska (pop. 380) and Jakarta, Indonesia (pop. 30 mil)--6,000 miles apart yet ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 05:22
How many ways do we hear the sound of water? In this episode of World Ocean Radio we explore water, the most essential element on earth, and the wa...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 04:45
Fish markets are the noisy, colorful, exiting, authentic and lively centers of any coastal city, the place where mongers and customers, tourists an...
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 05:23
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
