HeyJared90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection Podcast
Join Chris Clarke and a variety of guests as they explore the challenges and opportunities of the American Southwest's fragile ecosystems. Engaging interviews with experts, activists, and advocates on conservation, land management, and environmental justice.
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S5E28: 4 Things You Need to Know about Desert Flooding (opens the original)
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This week: four things to understand about desert flash floods, why blaming victims makes us less safe, and what both travelers and institutions can do to reduce the danger.
S5E27: Sonoran Toads and the Dirty Business of Ego Death (opens the original)
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Journalist Kimon de Greef follows the dirty business behind psychedelic “toad medicine”: wildlife exploitation, manufactured Indigenous tradition and a global market selling ego death as transcendence.
S5E26: Maps, Vanished Lakes, and Two Desert Squirrels (opens the original)
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The boundary between two ground-squirrel species preserves the memory of a wetter Mojave,and a barrier that disappeared thousands of years ago.
S5E25: The Vaquita Can Still Recover (opens the original)
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Only a handful of vaquitas have recently been observed, but the species doesn't have to be doomed. Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho explains why these desert porpoises remain capable of recovery, and what must change to keep them alive.
S5E24: Tree Sit at the Border (opens the original)
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Kate Scott reports from a tree sit in Lochiel, where activists occupied the last of four landmark cottonwoods after contractors destroyed the others for double-wall construction through the San Rafael Valley.
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