Wild About Utah: Bird Window Strikes
THUNK! We have all been startled by the loud thunk of a bird hitting a window. In the United States window collisions kill an estimated 1 billion bird...
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Wild About Utah is a weekly nature series produced by Utah Public Radio in cooperation with Stokes Nature Center, Bridgerland Audubon Society, Quinney College of Natural Resources, Cache Valley Wildlife Association, Utah State University and Utah Master Naturalist Program - USU Extension. More about Wild About Utah can be found here . Utah is a state endowed with many natural wonders from red rock formations to salt flats. And from desert wetlands to columns of mountains forming the basin and range region. When we look closer, nature is everywhere including just outside our door. Hear the wonders of Utah: plants, animals, geologic formations; ancient, present; terrestrial, avian and aquatic. Brought to you by the Moab Area Travel Council .
Wild About Utah: A Questionably Lodgepole Pine
Sometimes I have a hard time coming up with fun or fancy things to say for the radio. It’s just a thing that happens.
Wild About Utah: Defining Remote
‘Remote’ is not a characteristic I would assign to the city center, a major metropolis like where I grew up. But I also remember summers spent high in...
Wild About Utah: Mirabilite Mounds At The Great Salt Lake
Back in October 2019, the ranger at the Great Salt Lake State Park began to notice a white mound forming on the sand flats behind the visitor center. ...
Wild About Utah: Duck Tornados
If it flies like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, but there’s hundreds in a maelstrom whirlpool whose torrent of wingbeats make your ears mute and s...
Wild About Utah: Grandaddy
Oft have we, my friends and I, Left cares of home, and work day woes To find a haven, there cast a fly; And where we’ll camp–God only knows.
Wild About Utah: Common Starling
It all began so innocently. Let’s bring over a few European starlings to add authenticity for a Shakespearean theatrical. That was 1890. Today, North ...
Embarking On An Ecological Transition Through Permaculture Design
Before installing our permaculture gardens at Utah State University, Moab, the only birds I observed from my office window were Eurasian Collared Dove...
Wild About Utah: The Sun Still Shines in the Snowfall
The fresh morning snow teaches me things I didn’t know, and reminds me of that which I had forgotten after a long year living once more with dark, fir...
Wild About Utah: Petrified
“Charlie climbed onto the bed and tried to calm the three old people who were still petrified with fear. ‘Please don't be frightened,’ he said. ‘It's ...