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In this week’s segment, we meet Colorado-based poet José Alcantara. He prefers to write outside so that his muse, Mother Nature, can find him and offer him inspiration. Alcantara says he doesn’t write within a human timeframe. Instead, he writes according to nature’s eternal clock. Here is José Alcantara with his poem To a Friend Who Does Not Believe in God.
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Four decades ago, naturalist and author Gary Paul Nabhan wrote a book called The Desert Smells Like Rain. The title came from the answer a young Tohono O’odham boy gave when asked what the desert smelled like to him.
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For centuries scientists have kept field logs with sketches and notes about their observations of nature. It’s an age-old technique that has grown into a new movement called Nature Journaling, which encourages ordinary people to make deep connections to the world around them.
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The Verde River is home to more than two hundred species of birds. It’s the perfect place for longtime birders, and for people who are just getting started in birdwatching, to celebrate Earth Day at next week’s Verde Valley Birding & Nature Festival.
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If you're looking for something to do this weekend here's just a sample of events going on around Northern Arizona in our Weekend Community Calendar for March, 18-20.
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The Coconino National Forest renewed a ban on camping and campfires on land in the Flagstaff area.A release from the forest says the area of the ban has…
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Prescott National Forest officials say a one-ton boulder that went missing near Whitespar Highway was returned.The Wizard Rock, a black boulder known for…
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Utah naturalist and writer Terry Tempest Williams will speak at Northern Arizona University tomorrow night. She’s published more than a dozen books about…
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An Australian man who was on a commercial river trip through the Grand Canyon has died.The National Park Service says 77-year-old Kenneth Reece of…
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Wildlife managers say investigators are looking into the death of a Mexican gray wolf that was found last month in New Mexico.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife…