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Heart Heard Beating
This is an episode about hearing my heart beat. I initially was going to talk about the noise made by ORVs, ATVs, SUVs and...
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Monarda Curative for the New Year
Monarda species are endemic to North America. As near as I can figure there are fifteen or sixteen species and four of those are...
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Christmas Tree Tradition
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is found from central California, up through the Pacific Northwest, throughout the Rockies (variety glauca) and southward down into our...
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Sycamores on a Gravelly Plain
I’ve written a lot of episodes about sycamore trees over the years. Below are some of the things I wrote for those episodes. “I...
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Autumnal Wild Cotton
I use the common name wild cotton, but here are some other common names: Thurber’s cotton, desert cotton, and algodoncillo. Your choice, but if...
Layer Up!
It was Carl Linnaeus, the king of binomial nomenclature, who decided to use the classical Latin name fraxinus as the genus for ash trees....