Wild About Utah
Wild About Utah is a weekly nature series produced by Utah Public Radio. Utah is a state endowed with many natural wonders from red rock formations to salt flats. And from desert wetlands to columns of mountains forming the basin and range region. When we look closer, nature is everywhere including just outside our door.
Wild About Utah is produced in cooperation with Stokes Nature Center, Bridgerland Audubon Society, Quinney College of Natural Resources, Cache Valley Wildlife Association, Utah State University and Utah Master Naturalist Program - USU Extension.
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Back in Pioneer times in Utah, farmers liked to brag about how fast their horses could go, so challenges were made, and the issue usually settled by an informal race. -
One of the lesser-known natural, and underappreciated, areas in our state is found 32 miles south of Vernal in eastern Utah: the Ouray National Wildlife Refuge. -
Fire creates a mosaic of different habitat types, each at a different stage of succession. We humans continue to have a profound influence on these fire regimes. -
In January three wolves were killed by the US Department of Agriculture and Food in Cache Valley, near Avon. The wolves wandered into a corner of northern Utah where wolves are exempt from protection. -
A symbiotic relationship is best defined as two organisms living together where one or both benefit from the relationship and neither is harmed -
Every time I turned around I learned something interesting. But this Bugworld traveling exhibit was also interactive and fun. -
So, my friends, we might take courage from the Wood Duck, ruffle our feathers, and leap! Not expecting to fly right away, but realizing that the fall can be every bit as majestic. -
I’m just a 2nd-grade teacher leaning out my exterior classroom door, taking pictures of a curious little Black-Capped Chickadee happily pecking seeds from our class millet feeder which dangles just outside our window. -
Participatory Science used to be called Citizen Science, and then Community Science, but the emphasis on participation highlights that we are contributing to something large and impactful for which we don’t ask what science can do for us, but what we can do for science. -
Many resorts have partnered with groups to create innovative programs that restore public lands surrounding resorts making a positive impact on the natural world by conserving and dedicating areas for wildlife and conservation.
