Tufted Evening Primrose, Jewels of the Night By Deb Drain Broadcast 5.17 & 5.20.2023 Listen: One evening in late May, bundled up like it was mid-February, I wandered around the Rims area of Billings in search of native plants. It’s hard to imagine...
Flowers & the Fibonacci Sequence By Cat Haglund Broadcast 1999, 2.2002, 5.2016, 5.3 & 5.6.2023 Listen: It’s summer, and wildflowers are dotting the hillsides and forests. You might find yourself plucking petals off those flowers, trying to...
Of Driftwood and Journeys by Anna McNairy Broadcast 2.2002, 5.2014, 4.26 & 4.29.2023 Listen: You can find piles of it around any lake in Western Montana. Sturdy, dry, bleached white by the sun and plentiful, these bits of driftwood have undergone a...
Sandhill Spring By Claire Voris Broadcast 4.19 & 4.22.2023 Listen: I cannot see the cranes this morning, but I can hear them. They are somewhere in the basin of the valley where the yellow, cow-cropped grasses end and the thicket around the water...
The Mighty Wren By Tami Brunk Broadcast 4.2003, 5.2015, 4.5 & 4.8.2023 Listen: I was sunning myself on a large boulder along the snowy banks of the Lochsa River, absorbing warmth and the scent of red cedar, when an abrupt call: “check! check! check!”...
