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Javelina Mngmnt, Restoration, & Peyote Vultures
More Deranged Rants, this time about Javelina Management, Getting City Approval for Cactus Restoration and Street Trees, growing endangered plants fr…
2 years, 3 months ago
Limestone Desert Ferns, Montezuma Cypress on the Border
Rants about Montezuma Cypress on the Rio Grande, Cool Desert Ferns in West Texas and the Subfamily Cheilanthoideae of the fern family Pteridaceae, DE…
2 years, 3 months ago
Watering Before a Freeze, Goliad Gravels
Rants about South Texas Geology, Geologic Timeline Apps for your D@mn phone, why its better to water before a freeze, being dragged by a freight trai…
2 years, 4 months ago
Tucson Again, Agaves, Freezing in NM
Rants about freezing while trying to sleep in the back of a truck in Lordsburg, New Mexico, why Agaves are monocarpic, the importance of having a "ta…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Flower That Looks Like a Bird (especially if you're high) & other rants
A roughly 77 minute rant about how an Australian plant in the legume Family named Crotalaria cunninghamii "looks a like a bird" but only to humans wh…
2 years, 5 months ago
How Do Chollas Bang
Michelle Cloud-Hughes is a Cactus researcher, botanist and Desert Rat who specializes in one of my favorite cactus genera - Cylindropuntia: the genus…
2 years, 5 months ago
Plant Anatomy with Jim Mauseth
Jim Mauseth is a wizard with a microscope and a retired professor of plant anatomy at UT Austin, where he taught for 30+ years. Jim is an expert in P…
2 years, 5 months ago
Going to Jail for Botany
Dr. Peter Breslin is a Botanist out of Tucson Arizona specializing in Cacti, and recently did time in Brewster County Jail for "trespassing" to photo…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Conversation About Peyote with Leo Mercado
A discussion about Peyote conservation being done by Morningstar Conservancy in Tucson, Arizona and the ethnobotany of the Peyote Meeting, as well as…
2 years, 5 months ago
Dallas Plant Rescue & West Texas Dunes
In this episode we rant about :
Rescuing and digging thin-soiled limestone prairie plants from a soon-to-be-destroyed site in the Dallas/Ft. Worth are…
2 years, 6 months ago