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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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  • 28th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count poster with Spotted Towhee on a tree branch
    Everyone can be a part of the February Global Bird Count!
    February is the month to help scientists better understand global bird populations before one of their annual migrations, and the data collected will help bend the curve for bird survival.
  • Red rock mountains and blue sky at Canyonlands National Park in Utah
    Utah's Public Lands
    These lands have been a hot issue in Utah for most of our state’s history.
  • Elementary school students riding out to feed the elk at Hardware Ranch
    Hardware Ranch
    I've visited Blacksmith Fork Canyon with a thousand or so fifth and sixth graders — a few at a time — for a day with biologists and managers. Each time, we feed wintering elk about 5,000 pounds of hay.
  • Gila monster reptile on a rock
    Wild About Utah: Wild about Gila monsters
    It’s always a good day when you see a Gila Monster in the wild. Monster sightings are not common in the Southwest corner of Utah even though they are quite abundant in this portion of the Mojave Desert.
  • Dusky grouse sitting on a tree limb
    Close encounters vs. survival
    When we’re out enjoying Utah’s backcountry in wintertime, we should always resist the temptation to have a close encounter of the wild kind.
  • Pack goats on a dirt road
    Goats in the mountains
    A domestic goat is very different from a wild mountain goat. It's very unlikely a hiker will ever see a wild goat because there are less than 2,000 scattered about in a few small herds in Utah.
  • Bird feeder in winter
    Wild About Utah: Excitement at the bird feeder
    There are many reasons for having a bird feeder, especially in the winter season when birds are often hanging on by a thread due to challenges from inclement weather and lack of food.
  • Downy Woodpecker at feeder
    Wild About Utah: Christmas Bird Count
    The Bridgerland Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count is always hosted on the first Saturday on or following December 14th, and we have been contributing Cache Valley, Utah data to the National Audubon database since 1956.
  • A fossilized dinosaur foot.
    Dinosaurs in our past
    Not all bones become fossils. So you can imagine the excitement in the scientific community when a fossil bed containing more than 12,000 dinosaur bones were discovered 30 miles south of Price.
  • Goldfinch on sitting on a tree branch
    Mindful birding
    Mindful birding is a practice that incorporates a heightened awareness and deepens our relationships with birds and our connection to the natural world.