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So Far From Care Episodes 5 & 6
From: Marfa Public Radio
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In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
Big Bend Gambusia
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Big Bend National Park is home to many rare and endangered species, but the Big Bend gambusia lives particularly close to the edge of extinction. H...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Our Might Oaks
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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The 21 oak species in our region assume many forms and are survivors of the last Ice Age. Who are these tenacious trees? And what animals depend on...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Triops
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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These tiny crustaceans come to life for just a short while during our rainy season, but their eggs can wait decades to hatch and ride the wind for ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Spadefoot Desert Chorale
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Summer storms send many desert frogs and toads into a raucous reproductive frenzy. What role do their choruses play in their hasty courtship?

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Fifth Season
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Cenizo puts on a show during the desert's rainy season., Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
In the Chihuahuan Desert, we spend fall, winter, spring and summer talking about our fifth season—the rainy season. What does its arrival mean for ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rotifer Diversity
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Testudinella patina, Credit: T. Schröder, R.L. Wallace, E. Walsh
Every pristine spring, mucky cattle tank, and rain-filled hueco in the Chihuahuan Desert is home to an exceptionally diverse array of microscopic a...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Good News Bears
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A black bear in Big Bend National Park., Credit: Cindy Callahan, courtesy of National Park Service
After an absence of nearly fifty years, black bears have been making a remarkable comeback in Big Bend National Park. Why did they return? And what...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
Pronghorn in Decline
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Pronghorn on the Marfa Plateau. , Credit: Mike Sullins/TPWD
Pronghorn have perfect camouflage, unmatched speed, and can spot a predator miles away. But that hasn't protected them from a mysterious population...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
When Sheep Fly
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Biologists attach a tracking collar to a blindfolded desert bighorn sheep. , Credit: Kamila Forson
When Elephant Mountain gets too crowded with desert bighorn sheep, and it’s time to start a new herd in Big Bend Ranch State Park, how do you move ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coyotes
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Writer J. Frank Dobie wished he could be sung to sleep and woken by a coyote chorus every day. But not everyone regards coyotes so amiably. Who are...

Bought by WTIP and KENW


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cedar Waxwings
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Winter brings hordes of handsome cedar waxwings to our region, where they’ll throng our junipers and devour every berry they can find. What makes t...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pine Dining
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines ...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creosote Medicine
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A creosote flower., Credit: Megan Wilde
Creosote’s therapeutic applications would make any biotech CEO green with envy. What are this desert shrub’s medicinal properties? And why is it su...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coping with Aridity
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Horned lizards get water from the ants they eat., Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
Animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during the Chihuahuan Desert's dry winter and spring. How do they do it?

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Troubled Rio Grande
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Giant cane dominates the muddy banks of the Rio Grande in many places., Credit: Megan Wilde
Sediment is slowly choking the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, causing more frequent floods and making it easier for invasive plants to...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Traveling Seeds
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Maple seeds can fly with their papery propellers. , Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
You might think of plants as immobile, but they've evolved diverse strategies to scatter their offspring far and wide. What are some dispersal tact...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Texas' Aspens
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Quaking aspens in Big Bend National Park, Credit: James Zech
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1