Wild About Utah
Wild About Utah is a weekly nature series produced by Utah Public Radio 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. More about Wild About Utah can be found here.
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.
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In this episode, Mary's perspective on ice transforms after an unusual Christmas letter and a trip to the Olympic bobsled track. -
The Rocky Mountain elk is Utah’s state mammal for good reason. No one can deny its majesty and uncanny intelligence while being hunted, and the spine tingling bugle released in fall mountain splendor.
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In this episode of Wild About Utah, Shannon Rhodes reflects on her junior high history fair project and her chat about snow with a Utah snow giant, Alf Engen.
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Mary Heers cames face to face with local reindeer and shares the fascinating facts she learned.
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When beaver invade and destroy several thousand dollars-worth of trees in his neighbor's yard in Smithfield, Jack Greene offers solutions.
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Bird identification is all about learning to notice the little differences in size, coloration patterns, shape of the beak, the crown of the head and the tip of the tail.
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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.
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Jack Greene reflects on seeing peregrine falcons coupling, his grandkids' appreciation for box elder bugs, and turkeys causing mayhem in downtown Logan as he gives thanks for a wild Utah.
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I guess the lesson, as a wise first grader reminded me this week during our opinion writing session, is “Don’t yuck somebody’s yum.”
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In the fall of 1995, Bridgerland Audubon Society Trustee and Education Chair Jack Greene launched a final successful round of appeals to establish a nature center in Logan Canyon. This would become the Stokes Nature Center.
