Why Spiders Appear to Bungee-Jump from the Sky by Eric Leach Broadcast 9.3.2016 Listen: It felt like the perfect spot to see some wildlife. So I plopped down in the sun-soaked grasses among the widely scattered ponderosa pines and waited. I was squinting, or...
From Frenzy to Stillness, Calliope Hummingbird Lives Are a Practice of Opposites By Caroline Stephens Broadcast 5.8.2016 Listen: It is mid-May, and I am living in a wall tent on a farm in the Mission Valley. The tent is white canvas, and sits next to the...
Townsend’s Solitaires by Lauren Smith Broadcast 2.7.2016 photo by Jonathon Jongsma (CC 2.0 license) Listen:Â Townsend’s Solitaires by Lauren Smith When I feel the need to escape from town and immerse myself in the woods, I head up to Marshall Canyon, just...
Winter Loons by Chris Paige Broadcast 1.12.2016 Photo by John Picken, CC 2.0 license Listen: Winter Loons by Chris Paige Each week, the haunting wail of the common loon opens the Field Notes program. The loon’s cry always brings to my mind clear mountain lakes rimmed...
Winter Weeds by Margaret Manning Broadcast 11.24.2015 Listen:  Winter Weeds by Margaret Manning As you travel about Montana’s fall and winter landscape, you’re bound to see the brown and gray patchwork of roadside weeds. We tend to classify weeds as those nuisance...
