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Mary Heers

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 28, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Utah Public Radio
Top 5M sites
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Aug 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Mary Heers

    Wild About Utah: Bees in the backyard (opens the original)

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    In the wild, a swarm of bees looking for a new home will often settle into a hollow in a tree. In some Cache Valley backyards, however. some bees will be quite content to move into a white 12x8 inch box sitting a few inches off the ground. This is how my friend Richard got started keeping bees in his backyard with a single box full of worker honeybees and a queen. Richard's worker bees got busy building an interior wall of wax. This wall is an engineering marvel of tightly packed hexagonal cells

  2. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Mary Heers

    Wild About Utah: A surprise visit with distant relatives of Cache Valley’s birds (opens the original)

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    This episode was first published August 25, 2025. Awhile back, I was riding my bicycle along country roads in Cache Valley, when suddenly six unusual looking chicks ran across the road in single file right in front of me. I slammed on the brakes just in time as the chicks disappeared down the farmhouse driveway on the other side of the road. I got off my bike and ventured partway down the driveway. Suddenly I found myself face to face with a fully grown peacock. This distant relative of Cache Va

  3. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Mary Heers

    St. George StoryCorps: The traveling geologist (opens the original)

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    My name is Brent Cook. I've looked at rocks and evaluated projects in about 70 countries. If we have air conditioning, it takes metal to run the air conditioner. So the air itself! We need metal, and we're using more and more and finding less and less. I like the exploration side because I'm out in the bush, hiking around and working with local people in the middle of nowhere. It's not the Four Seasons Hotel. You get out and see the world. I've always early on wanted to understand how Earth work

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