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Wild About Utah

Wild About Utah

Wild About Utah is a Utah Public Radio production featuring contributors who share a love of nature, preservation and education. Contributors include Bridgerland Audubon Society, Cache Valley Wildlife Association, Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University, Stokes Nature Center, and the Utah Master Naturalists Program from the USU Cooperative Extension Service.

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3:52

Meadowlarks

Wild About Utah ·

2025/04/21

I loved Mark Brunson’s recent Wild About Utah on spring bird song, his words resonating with my own. Continuing on with his melodies leads me to a bird song that lifts me to new heights as I trot along a meadow trail. A bird of the prairie and countryside, the western meadowlark releases songs synonymous … Continue reading "Meadowlarks"

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Balancing Academic Focus and Student Exploration when...

Wild About Utah ·

2025/04/14

A recent educational outdoor experience (I’ll call field experience) with a homeschooled family, prompted me to reflect on the balance between academic focus and student-exploration when teaching outdoors. Yes, some balance of the two is necessary. In the extreme case of too explicit of academic focus, why be outdoors at all and not just at … Continue reading "Balancing Academic Focus and Student Exploration when Learning Outdoors"

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3:57

Valuing Rodent Engineers

Wild About Utah ·

2025/04/07

Finding a beaver dam gives me a sense of discovery and connects me to the past. I fondly remember my parents pointing out dams when we drove up Logan canyon. Instinctively, we’d scan, hoping to see the animals that built and maintained those structures. When we talked about beaver dams, the conversation often turned to … Continue reading "Valuing Rodent Engineers"

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4:21

Outdoor Gear

Wild About Utah ·

2025/03/17

Skiing up our lovely canyon yesterday, enjoying American dipper and stream music, occasional king fisher chatter, Townsend’s solitaire melodies, I began ruminating on my ski equipment while watching their effortless glide through snow. A few weeks earlier, I had donated a pair of WWII 10th Mountain Division US military issue skies to the Stokes Nature … Continue reading "Outdoor Gear"

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4:37

Three of Logan’s Finest

Wild About Utah ·

2025/03/10

Kick. Step. Breathe. Kick. Step. Breathe. Miniature pellets of snow swirl past my face, land on the slope we are struggling against, then tumble hundreds of feet down the snow-encased mountain. My friend John Louviere and I have skied the Bear River Range backcountry together since we first met as Utah State University students in … Continue reading "Three of Logan’s Finest"

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2:56

Nature Journaling: A Steller Idea!

Wild About Utah ·

2025/02/10

Across my years of exploring the majestic outdoors with young children, I’ve experimented with nature journaling. I always have grandiose ideas. Ideas of what I want their entry illustrations to look like, ideas of what I hope their written words will sound like, and ideas about what memories I hope their journal will encapsulate. As … Continue reading "Nature Journaling: A Steller Idea!"

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3:53

You Can Be a Part of the February Global Bird Count!

Wild About Utah ·

2025/02/03

There are deeply concerning drops in bird populations, and shifting migration ranges and patterns are changing before our eyes, but on the bright side, the crisis presents a strong reason and opportunities for even the most novice birders to be a part of the solution, to contribute to environmental conservation through community science. The Cornell … Continue reading "You Can Be a Part of the February Global Bird Count!"

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3:22

Utah’s Public Lands

Wild About Utah ·

2025/01/20

One might justly conjecture we have been cursed by Utah’s magnificent wild landscapes, which have caused such division and consternation among our political leadership and their constituents. Some see vast sweeps of our national public lands as having little to offer for recreation or scenery, waste lands of little value beyond mineral extraction, or selling … Continue reading "Utah’s Public Lands"

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4:07

Hardware Ranch

Wild About Utah ·

2025/01/13

Hardware Wildlife Management Area (WMA) provides refuge for hundreds of elk who congregate each December and hunker down for the duration of the winter. In 2008, Hardware Education Director Marni Lee and I established a service-learning partnership. Since then, I have ventured up northern Utah’s Blacksmith Fork Canyon with about a thousand 5th and 6th … Continue reading "Hardware Ranch"

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3:49

Wild About Monsters

Wild About Utah ·

2025/01/06

The excitement in her voice could not be more obvious as I answered her call. “Dad, there’s a Gila Monster walking down the middle of my jogging trail right now”. She was only a few minutes away so I ask her to follow it until I could get there. I arrived in time to film … Continue reading "Wild About Monsters"

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3:49

Close Encounters vs. Survival

Wild About Utah ·

2024/12/30

Just about everyone loves seeing wildlife in its natural habitat. Usually, we see animals at a distance – near enough to recognize, but not near enough to touch. There’s always that temptation, though, to get a closer look, to have that truly memorable close encounter. Some years ago, a friend and I went cross-country skiing … Continue reading "Close Encounters vs. Survival"

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3:50

Goats in the Mountains

Wild About Utah ·

2024/12/23

When a family friend recently returned from a big hunting trip, he mentioned he’d taken along his new pack goats. “Pack goats?” I perked up at the thought of seeing goats on a hiking trail in the mountains. “They’re very friendly,” he added. A domestic goat is very different from a wild mountain goat. It’s … Continue reading "Goats in the Mountains"

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Excitement at the Bird Feeder!

Wild About Utah ·

2024/12/16

Excitement at the Bird Feeder! There are many reasons for having a bird feeder, especially in the winter season when birds are often hanging on by a thread due to challenges from inclement weather and lack of food. Where to place a feeder and how to manage it for bird health and safety has been … Continue reading "Excitement at the Bird Feeder!"

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The Christmas Bird Count is a Most Wonderful Time of...

Wild About Utah ·

2024/12/02

When the winter chill sets in, that’s my cue to start filling the suet feeders, plug in the heated bird bath, and keep the Black Oil Sunflower Seed in stock for the grand variety of birds which visit my home through the Winter. I feed the birds because I know that my visitors will have … Continue reading "The Christmas Bird Count is a Most Wonderful Time of the Year!"

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3:18

Footprints of Dinosaurs in Our Past

Wild About Utah ·

2024/11/25

When I saw my first giant dinosaur footprint a the Natural History Museum of Utah, I said it was terrific. “Dime a dozen, “ said my father-in-law, who was standing next to me. “The ceiling of the coal mine is littered with them.” My ears perked right up. “Really,?” I said. “Maybe I could get … Continue reading "Footprints of Dinosaurs in Our Past"

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3:43

Mindful Birding

Wild About Utah ·

2024/11/18

Mindful birding- hmmm? Mindfulness has become a common word and way to a better life they say. As I understand, “mindfulness” is a mild form of meditation, where one is “in the moment” focusing on a thought or object that is all consuming. My personal experiences of this type are when I’m painting a picture, … Continue reading "Mindful Birding"

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Election Day

Wild About Utah ·

2024/11/11

I stepped outside on election morning, into a gusty, cold wind. Leaves skidded across the ground, mixed with heavy graupel which fell hard from sky, pelting me from all directions. Graupel is a type of snow—soft hail-like miniature snowballs—that fall with turbulent winds typically associated with either the beginning or the end of a storm … Continue reading "Election Day"

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The Unique Biodiversity of Washington County

Wild About Utah ·

2024/11/04

For 44 years I have spent considerable time in the company of the desert creatures that reside outside my home in St. George Utah. That number doesn’t include my frequent visits to this area as a young man growing up in Iron County. Back then I did not appreciate the uniqueness of the environment I … Continue reading "The Unique Biodiversity of Washington County"

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A Good Shepherd

Wild About Utah ·

2024/10/28

“Here they come!” I heard the cry as I was hurrying down the side of the road in Mantua to watch the yearly tailing of the sheep. The sheep suddenly crested a small hill, and I was face to face with one thousand sheep on the move. I grabbed a nearby mailbox and hung on … Continue reading "A Good Shepherd"

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Spontaneous Moments

Wild About Utah ·

2024/10/14

Twelve sweaty, 2nd-grade birders and one worn out teacher stumbled into the shade of the Green Canyon trailhead bathroom facility. It was nearly 90 degrees under the bluebird Utah sky. No one had been quite prepared for the sun, heat, and amount of water they’d need for the journey; they were only halfway done with … Continue reading "Spontaneous Moments"

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