Why No Two Snowflakes Look Alike by Brooke Carlisle Broadcast 12.2015 & 12.20 & 12.23.2023 Listen: You know the old saying “no two snowflakes are alike”? Well, there may be more truth to that than you think. I am from Hillsboro, Oregon, where the snow...
Cottonwoods: Where Wildlife Take Refuge in Winter by Ellen Knight Broadcast 2.2010, 2.011, 3.2016, 12.6 & 12.9.2023 Listen: Thinking about plants in winter recently, I remembered a particular good-sized cottonwood I saw while walking along a riverbank. What...
A Portrait Of Kehi-oo-Leh, Rattlesnake Creek By Sarah Moody Broadcast 6.2013, 12.2019, and 11.29 & 12.2.2023 Listen: I grew up in Missoula with the sound of Rattlesnake Creek pouring bedtime stories into my room, its chanting waters carrying me away to...
Pleistocene Megafauna by Tom McKean Broadcast 11.2013, 11.2018, and 11.15 & 11.18.2023 Listen: A cheetah crouches in the tall grass. Pronghorn graze warily in the cool summer breeze. After minutes of quiet patience the cheetah erupts into a burst of muscle...
Dermestids, Death, and Pandemic Ponderings By Kara Cromwell Broadcast 11.1 & 11.4.2023 Listen: Strictly speaking, this isn’t a Field Note. It’s about the living world, but a piece enclosed in a plexiglass box. And it comes from the end of 2020—a time...
