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...
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 ...