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President Donald Trump recently signed executive orders shrinking the size of two Utah national monuments. On this episode, we hear both sides of the debate.

Gardening expert Dan Drost joins us to answer your questions. He shares tips and tricks on how to keep your garden healthy and productive.

Crockett Avenue Irrigation Company President Gordon Colson and Cache Water District Manager Nathan Daugs join us today to discuss the Little Logan River Watershed Project.

Janet Dexter sketched celebrities for the New York Times and other newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s. But she left her successful career to commit to a life of poverty in the Maine woods.

We shine a spotlight on nonprofit organizations throughout Utah with Amy Anderson, the regional coordinator for A Bolder Way Forward.

Today we compiled a list community booklist with the help of Elaine Thatcher, Anne Holman, and some program listeners.

Following a panel by Politico Magazine on America's state of democracy, historian Greg Jackson, host of "History That Doesn't Suck," joins us to talk about America's political past.

On this episode we revisit our 2018 conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner John Branch about a family of world-champion saddle-bronc riders.

Terry Tempest Williams says the Glorians are not distant deities, but ordinary presences — animal, plant, memory, moment — that reveal our vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world.

As the state of Utah debates mountain lion removal, Utah Mountain Lion Conservation Founder Denise Peterson and houndsman Aaron Johnson join us to talk about the cats.

Author Heather Hansman joins us today to talk about her new book "Fierce Country," the story of three women and their love for the outdoors.

Los Angeles and smog have been synonymous for decades. But the last smog alert happened in 2003, and lead has virtually disappeared from the air.

Longtime member and historian of the Wasatch Mountain Club Debra Frank shares its history in her new book "Faint Heart Never Climbed a Mountain."

On this year's poetry roundup, we feature conversation with and poetry from Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore, along with poets Danielle Dubrasky and Olivia Dudding Rodriguez.

For over three years, Nathan Larson has been photographing and writing from some of North America’s most remote landscapes: the Arctic Ocean, the edge of Labrador, Key West, Alaska, Newfoundland.

In the 2026 Fife Honor Lecture at USU, professor Katherine Borland of Ohio State University’s Center for Folklore Studies, focused on miracle narratives. She joins us for the hour.

The winner of Utah's Policy Pitch Competition, Melaine Webster, joins us to discuss her proposal to reform debt collection within Utah's criminal justice system.

Digital Assets Librarian Darcy Pumphrey joins us to talk about a Utah State University library exhibit on Brigham Young College 100 years after its closure.

“The truly happy man ought to stay at home.” This is one of many quotes preserved from the ancient Greek dramatists, now translated by classicist James Romm into verse.

The Stokes Nature Center's NEA Big Read program is focusing on "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World," edited by Ada Limon. Featured in the book, author, poet, and essayist Molly McCully Brown joined us in January to discuss the collection and other works.Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection "Places I’ve Taken my Body" and the poetry collection "The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded," which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the coauthor of the poetry collection "In The Field Between Us." She is director of creative writing at the University of Wyoming and editor-in-chief of Image Journal.