Petey thinks pocket gophers are very cute. A huh.
Pocket gophers are amazing rodents, spending almost all of their life underground in the tunnels they build. How deep are the tunnels and how far do they go? I’ve observed water in an irrigated field disappear down a gopher hole and never fill up. Whoa! Talk about getting water and air into the earth. These rascal are environmental engineers. And even though they can be pesky around your homestead, they are very cute.
Growing Native- Martin Luther King Petey reminisces about his confused middle class white kid journey in segregated Kentucky. Petey Mesquitey is KXCI’s resident storyteller....
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name....
We love our annual tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from 30...
