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The Desert, My Mom, and Me
From City High Radio
Caption: Tucson from the top Tumamoc Hill, Credit: Trenton Good
16-year-old Trent needs answers, so he skips school and heads out in to the desert to do some thinking. His mother does not approve.

Bought by YouthCast and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 00:06:58
  • Purchases: 2
Distillations Episode 132: Harvest
Series: Distillations - The Chemistry Podcast
From Chemical Heritage Foundation
Caption: here the world's seeds stay safe., Credit: Image courtesy of Mary Tefre/Svalbard Globale Seed Vault.
This episode explores two very different ways people hope to protect future harvests. First, follow us to the Doomsday Vault, which protects 700,00...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:12:06
Burrowing Owls
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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Not all owls hunt at night and nest in trees. Burrowing owls greet the sun from abandoned prairie dog dens. What else makes these tiny birds unique?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nighthawks
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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Some birds sing. Others twitter, tweet or trill. But the common nighthawk goes boom in the night. This noise isn’t all that sets nighthawks apart i...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Triops
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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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: 00:00:59
  • Purchases: 1
Spadefoot Desert Chorale
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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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: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Fifth Season
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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 ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Attracting Pollinators
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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Animals and insects aren’t being altruistic when they pollinate a plant. So how do plants attract and reward them for their services?

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rotifer Diversity
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pyrrhuloxia
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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With its showy red crest and golden bill, the pyrrhuloxia shouldn't be confused with its more flamboyant cardinal relative. What makes this desert ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Turkey Vultures
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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They eat roadkill. They urinate on themselves. When frightened, they vomit. The turkey vultures have returned. Why does this harbinger of spring ha...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Soapberry
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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Trees seem scarce in the Chihuahuan Desert. But soapberry trees manage to thrive throughout our region and can even be used to wash your hands. How...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mimms Ranch
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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On Mimms Ranch outside Marfa, the Dixon Water Foundation is using some surprising tools to improve a grassland’s ability to absorb water: cattle an...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Giant Ground Sloths
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
Caption: Skeletal remains of a Shasta ground sloth., Credit: The Jesse Earl Hyde Collection, Case Western Reserve University
Ground sloths weren’t cute, cuddly tree-dwellers like sloths today. They weighed 500 pounds and stood nine-feet tall. Who were these Ice Age creatu...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pollen
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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As all hay-fever sufferers will tell you, this has been a bad year for pollen. What's all that pollen good for besides making you miserable?

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dexter National Fish Hatchery
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
Caption: Fish tanks inside Dexter National Fish Hatchery., Credit: Megan Wilde
Without the Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center, several desert fish species might have disappeared from the Chihuahuan Desert regi...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bosque del Apache
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
Caption: A sandhill crane flies over Bosque del Apache., Credit: Megan Wilde
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
When Sheep Fly
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coyotes
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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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...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cedar Waxwings
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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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: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pine Dining
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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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: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creosote Medicine
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coping with Aridity
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Traveling Seeds
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
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: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Return of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow
Series: Nature Notes
From Marfa Public Radio
Caption: A Rio Grande silvery minnow, Credit: Aimee Roberson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
These tiny fish disappeared from Texas almost fifty years ago. But today, silvery minnows swim again in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande. What ...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Purchases: 1