Accessibility links
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.
Wild About Utah

Podcast Directory

Wild About Utah

Wild About Utah

From Utah Public Radio

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.

Most Recent Episodes

Earth Day

Earth Day is an annual global Thanksgiving for Mother Earth, and a celebration of the people who advocate for legislation to protect the earth on local, state, and national levels.

Sled dogs

The most famous sled dogs are the freight teams that carried anti-toxin from Anchorage to Nome during an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925. The dog teams ran a thousand miles and are credited with saving hundreds of lives.

Atmospheric rivers, the water cycle and Great Salt Lake

Atmospheric rivers, "giant conveyor belts of water in the sky," cause the moisture-rich "Pineapple Express" storm systems that come from the Pacific Ocean, especially Hawaii, several times annually and are more common in the winter.

The bees and the birds

When I marveled at seeing students eagerly identify birds, Mr. J. smiled. "You know, Shannon, it isn't about the birds. It's about being aware."

How can we keep wildlife safe as they migrate over highways?

Deer and other wildlife have been migrating across our state much longer than humans. But the introduction of fenced highways and their increased speed and traffic can interfere with migration.

Welcoming rodent engineers

Finding a beaver dam gives me a sense of discovery and connects me to the past.

Christmas Bird Count

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.

Dinosaurs in Utah's 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.

Wild About Utah: Giving thanks for a wild Utah

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.

Wild About Utah

Podcast Directory