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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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Watch the world’s moments become memories, and...

Wild About Utah ·

2025/03/31

The perfume of gasping stomata begins my morning as I walk outside to greet the day. Inhale, exhale. It is that greatest of olfactory medicinals that suddenly wakes my mind, like a winterworn cabin whose windows and doors are flung open with abandon on its first day of spring. Fresh air pools in the hidden … Continue reading "Watch the world’s moments become memories, and memories become you"

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3:45

Giant Hole in the Ground

Wild About Utah ·

2025/03/24

Years ago, I was flying in an airplane headed into Salt Lake when the captain came on the intercom and suggested we look out the windows. Below us was a truly huge hole in the ground. This was my first look at the Kennecott open pit copper mine. In 1847, when Brigham Young and the … Continue reading "Giant Hole in the Ground"

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Sound Can Brighten the Dingy Days

Wild About Utah ·

2025/03/02

For many of us who love the outdoors, the first half of March is a least favorite time of year. It’s a drizzly season. In northern Utah’s urban valleys, the lingering patches of snow are tinged with dirty gray that mirrors the dingy sky. Winter has lost its cleansing power, yet the budburst and first … Continue reading "Sound Can Brighten the Dingy Days"

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Stop. Look. Listen to the voices of our young people

Wild About Utah ·

2025/02/24

Each fall, for the last 10 years, a challenge has gone out to Utah and Southern Idaho’s high school students to create a poster that sends a strong message to the rest of us that the air we breathe is dangerously dirty and we need to do something about it. Judges were called in, and … Continue reading "Stop. Look. Listen to the voices of our young people"

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3:35

Waldo the Wildcat

Wild About Utah ·

2025/02/17

A week ago I received the Weber State University Alumni Magazine that released a flood of memories and emotions. “Waldo celebrates 60” with Waldo’s cartoonish face on the cover. Waldo was not a cartoon, but a genuine lady bobcat and Weber State College mascot, a gorgeous animal that stole my heart! She was in my … Continue reading "Waldo the Wildcat"

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Changing the Landscape of aNorthern Corner of Utah

Wild About Utah ·

2025/01/27

As I was driving through Logan Canyon, I caught the news that the Brigham City Museum of Art was opening a new exhibit called “Rural to Rockets.” “Irresistible,” I muttered as I swung my car off the highway at the Brigham City exit. This promised to be the story of a major change in the … Continue reading "Changing the Landscape of aNorthern Corner of Utah"

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3:11

Mundane to Magical Experiences

Wild About Utah ·

2024/12/09

One aspect of experiential learning I love most is how it turns mundane encounters into magical experiences. How many times have your children walked by a pond full of ducks and geese without batting an eye, or shuffled their feet through fallen, Autumn leaves on their way to this or to that? I continue to … Continue reading "Mundane to Magical Experiences"

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Ripple Effects: Enhance Backyard Birdwatching When...

Wild About Utah ·

2024/09/30

Birdwatching is a fun hobby for all ages and it is a great way to connect with nature and increase self-efficacy, so let’s discuss the benefits and the importance of a safe environment for feeding our backyard birds. First, the benefits of supplemental feeding, and second, preventable deaths from cats and window collisions. Supplemental food … Continue reading "Ripple Effects: Enhance Backyard Birdwatching When You Feed & Protect Birds"

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3:56

West Nile Virus found in Mendon

Wild About Utah ·

2024/09/23

“West Nile Virus Found in Mendon.” This warning, printed in big block letters, definitely caught my attention when I walked into the Mendon Post Office. The poster included a picture of a mosquito and a message saying “Please take the necessary precautions to protect yourself and your loved ones.” The warning came from the Cache … Continue reading "West Nile Virus found in Mendon"

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3:29

American Pika

Wild About Utah ·

2024/09/16

As I hike the high country, there is a non-bird call that always brightens my way. A mini rabbit, or rock rabbit in Jack vernacular, the pika, has been declared North America’s cutest mammal. I won’t argue with this declaration, unless it’s compared to my grandkids. On a scramble up two gnarly peaks above Alta … Continue reading "American Pika"

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Naomi Peak

Wild About Utah ·

2024/09/09

One September day when I was a fifth grader, my dad pulled me out of school to climb the Pfeifferhorn, an 11,000 foot peak in the Wasatch Range. That was the most meaningful and defining day of my elementary school experience. Years later, when I first arrived in Logan, my younger sister Heather and I … Continue reading "Naomi Peak"

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3:43

Cuckoo Bees

Wild About Utah ·

2024/09/02

I’d like to tell you a crime story. At least, it would be a crime story if told from a human perspective. But is it still a crime story if it’s about the natural world? I’ll tell it and then let you decide for yourself. First let me set the stage: Not long ago I … Continue reading "Cuckoo Bees"

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3:36

I Ate A Bug

Wild About Utah ·

2024/08/26

Never one to say no to an adventure, this month I found myself sitting in the front row at the Bug Bar at the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake. I was waiting for the Bug Bar to open and serve up some insects. This was the first day of the museum’s annual Bug Festival, … Continue reading "I Ate A Bug"

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3:58

Freedom in a Land Called Utah…

Wild About Utah ·

2024/08/05

I am sitting next to friends on top of the skeleton of an excavator from the 1950s at an abandoned uranium mining site. All around us are tamarisk chokes, redrock fortifications, and the bleached steel bones of Pittsburgh’s former glory. We descend off of what we imagine the remains of a great steel minotaur which … Continue reading "Freedom in a Land Called Utah…"

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Ute Ladies’ Tresses – Utah Orchids

Wild About Utah ·

2024/07/29

It’s a warm summer evening on the west side of Cache Valley, where a small group of volunteers has gathered beside a green pasture. We hear the rattling bugle calls of sandhill cranes in the distance. A Swainson’s hawk scolds us as it circles overhead. As we walk into the field, our steps disturb dragonflies … Continue reading "Ute Ladies’ Tresses – Utah Orchids"

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Utah’s Bats

Wild About Utah ·

2024/07/15

The secret service takes to the sky as we paddle our canoe into a full moonlit Bear River. Our magic sonagram device collects hidden sounds of myriad bats, as they devour tens of thousands of insects. We’re floating through Wuda Ogwa, the Bear River Massacre site now owned by the NW band of the Shoshone … Continue reading "Utah’s Bats"

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Mountain Goats in Northern Utah?

Wild About Utah ·

2024/07/08

Mid-September, 2016, while rambling in a seldom-traveled area of the Mount Naomi Wilderness, my son Nate asked, “Dad, what’s the coolest animal you’ve ever seen in the Bear River Mountains?” “Oh, all the regular creatures you’d expect,” I said. “Deer, elk, moose, coyotes, porcupines, lots of cat tracks, and a couple of badgers.” We took … Continue reading "Mountain Goats in Northern Utah?"

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Southwestern Utah Herps

Wild About Utah ·

2024/05/20

I’m going to go beyond birds a few hundred million years to their precursors, who thrived long before our feathered mini-dinosaurs evolved. These ancient beings continue to thrive to this day, which lured 14 USU students and I to join them in the Mojave wilds of southwestern Utah. We camped at the Gunlock State Park, … Continue reading "Southwestern Utah Herps"

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A Sense of Where You Are

Wild About Utah ·

2024/05/13

I arrived in Logan, Utah for winter quarter in 1994—after history professor Ross Peterson recruited my three sisters and I to Utah State University, despite the fact that our dad was a University of Utah professor and Dean. I was the final piece of Ross’ coup and he flashed a satiating grin when I first … Continue reading "A Sense of Where You Are"

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Dashboard ShowsPeak Need for Dark Skiesand the Mantra...

Wild About Utah ·

2024/05/06

Songbirds migrate at night to avoid predators, air turbulence, and daytime heat. Down here on the ground we are unaware of the miraculous and essential voyagers flying up to 10,000 feet above us, but thanks to dedicated scientists collaborating for years on end we have free access to the data and graphs of these massive … Continue reading "Dashboard ShowsPeak Need for Dark Skiesand the Mantra toDim the Lights for Birds at Night"

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