Fireweed: A Colorful Reminder Of Change By Sarah Capdeville Broadcast 6.2015, 6.2016, & 8.17 & 8.20.2022 Listen: On a backpacking trip two summers ago, a group of fellow students and I started our trek across the Bob Marshall Wilderness on the...
The Gall of Kinnikinnick By Stephanie Murphy Broadcast 8.10 & 8.13.2022 Listen: In the back of a Forest Service-green pickup truck climbing a rutted dirt road in the Flint Creek Range near Philipsburg, I am reminded to drink more water. At about...
What Can Turn Tree Sap into…Honeydew? By John McCutcheon Broadcast 7.2013 & 7.27 & 7.30.2022 Listen: The aphids of western Montana have made themselves known this year. Because of their emergence in such huge numbers, anything parked under...
Small-Scale Lion Tracking By Theresa Duncan Broadcast 7.2015, 8.2019, and 7.20 & 7.23.2022 Listen: It was a hot summer day—the Fourth of July, to be exact. My granddaughter Abby and I were on our way to the woodshed. We were going to need a small...
Grasshopper Glacier: A Frozen Plague By Terry Habeger Broadcast 7.13 & 7.16.2022 Listen: As a teenage boy on the farm in Iowa, I experienced a horde of grasshoppers while unloading a wagon of oats. The surface was covered with grasshoppers! It was...