Why Dead Standing Trees are Essential to Forests by Emily Miller Broadcast 2.2.2015. Listen: One of my favorite places to look in the forest is up. I love the way trees frame patches of sky, and how rays of sun slide over the branches and slant into pockets of...
Ruminations on Mule Deer by Alissa Turtletaub Broadcast on 10.2 & 10.7.2016 Listen: Soaking up some September sun, I was perched on a rocky outcrop of Wild Horse Island in Flathead Lake. The sweet vanilla scent of Ponderosa pine permeated the air as I watched...
Great Grey Owls by Lily Vonderheide Broadcast on 9.13.2015 Listen: One evening while walking along the river just outside of town, winding my way through a meadow fringed with ponderosa pine, I met a Great Grey Owl hunting down amongst the bunchgrass and...
Krummholz: The Bonsai Opportunists Of Timberline by Deborah Richie Broadcast 8.10.1995 and 8.23.2016 Listen: Winds lash the peaks. Snow pelts the ridges almost every month of the year. The warmest average monthly temperature is a mere 50 degrees F. The conifer...
Painted Turtles, Lovers of Water and Sun By Charles Finn Broadcast 9.2005, 8.2012, 8.2017 Listen: They are the size of dinner plates, poker chips, catcher’s mitts stacked up in the sun. You see them on hot summer evenings crossing the road, or bobbing in...
