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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
I think that the common name of orange sneezeweed may be a bit misleading. The flowers we saw and photographed were more on the yellow side, but th...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 05:18
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
Isn’t it wonderful to live in a region where clouds and humidity and rain are so celebrated? You can identify the natives and converted natives as ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2020
- Length: 05:05
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
I could have jabbered on forever (you probably noticed) and still not have mentioned all the wonderful things happening now in the uplands as sprin...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 05:51
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
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
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
Adam talks about his work with The Hopi Environmental Project. A collaboration with the Hopi Tribe and University of Arizona.
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 05:00
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 11:28
Anisacanthus thurberi or desert honeysuckle is in the Acanthus family, Acanthaceae. I do like the common name cola de gallo, because it captures th...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:27
I suppose the thinking is that any wildflowers blooming along the side of the road will beautify that road and who cares what’s in the hydro-seed m...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:09
Hmm, I sure talk about a lot of things in this show, but fall does this to me and it is the season of seasons that it has just begun. So the monsoo...
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 04:55
This is all probably more than you wanted to know, but what the yucca moths tell us is that there are, no doubt, hundreds of thousands of pollinato...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:06
The common name of chocolate flower refers to the surprising morning fragrance of the flower.
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 05:47
Fall is just a blast with all the late season blooming plants, so maybe instead of a festival for all the different species, we could consolidate a...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:01
The Loggerhead Shrike is common, but still a fun sighting when your are out in the field.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 04:55
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
Making It Work Radio Season 1-Episode 7 with Rodney Detheridge, San Francisco Local and Nightclub Manager
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 25:51
- Added: Sep 09, 2014
- Length: 07:58
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