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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
Humans have been using and modifying the ecosystems around on the Colorado Plateau for thousands of years. To understand human relationships with t...
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- Added: May 20, 2018
- Length: 30:23
- Purchases: 1
At one point when I was reading about the age of water I came across some research indicating that some of the water molecules we drink could be 4....
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:09
I like the name sumac and I’ve known it since I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was poison sumac or poison ivy, but ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:42
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:13
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:23
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
House finches are pretty darned cute and that’s why pet stores back in New York City in 1939 were selling them as “Hollywood Finches”. The Migrator...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:43
Whether it's soldiers returning from war or youngsters recovering from mass shootings, or any other kinds of sudden or on-going trauma, the need fo...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The paleo diet aims to take nutrition back to the basics—to the way Paleolithic people ate. But prehistoric people didn’t eat boneless chicken brea...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 16:34
- Purchases: 3
Velvet mesquite is the predominate native mesquite of southern Arizona. If you go west toward California, you will start running into western honey...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 05:18
I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as I stat...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:16
I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:28
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
EVERGREEN HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin’" - What makes a road trip something special? It’s not the destination. EVERGREEN HOUR TWO: "Time Travel" - Ever...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 01:58:57
In the final episode of Season Two, Offshore goes back to the beginning to search for answers to the conflict on Mauna Kea. Not the beginning of as...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 35:08
In this edition of The Lake Superior Project, Dr. Seth Moore, director of biology and environment with the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa, discusse...
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- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 08:44
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The story of Mauna Kea starts on an island in the Pacific — but it doesn’t end there. There are other sacred mountains. Sacred plains. Sacred fores...
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 32:06
Is there an inherent conflict between Western science and indigenous culture? A difference in worldviews that makes communication between the two s...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 28:02
Atop one of the world’s most sacred mountains, a battle over science, culture — and the future of Hawaii.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 31:06
Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.
Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, WLPR , KENW, KUPR low power FM and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 7
Atira, named for the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the Morning and Evening Star orbits the Sun inside of our path.
Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KENW, KUPR low power FM, WOUB and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 02:00
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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
I am not that great at identifying native grasses, but I keep on trying . Thank goodness some are really quite easy to ID and that makes me feel so...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Autumn is the season of migration for many avian species and in the borderlands of southern Arizona hummingbirds are passing through, sparrows are ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 10:30