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2024-03-22

  Instagram Drug Bros & Cactus Poaching

A long-winded rant about the social media phenomenon known as Instagram Drug Bros™️ and trying to encourage them to seek spiritual refuge (como se dice nice) in education about plant ecology and evolution rather than just the hoarding and collecting of ...
  Tony Santore author
2024-03-12

  Desert Ferns with Dr. Michael Windham

This is a science-heavy episode with Dr. Michael Windham, specialist in Cheilanthoid Ferns curator at Duke Herbarium. Even if you're not interested in this group, they're a great case study in numerous fascinating phenomena including convergent evoluti...
  Tony Santore author
2024-03-12

  An Undescribed Psilocybin sp. in the Desert

This episode consists of a rant about code-switching and friendship/cordiality through friction and being a pain in the ass, along with why dissecting flowers (and not just taking them at face value) with a razorblade or knife is important for understa...
  Tony Santore author
2024-03-04

  Fighting Invasive Buffelgrass in Arizona & Restoring Desert Ecosytems

A conversation with Tony Figueroa, Senior Manager for the Invasive Plant Program at the Tucson Audubon Society (no affiliation with the National Org) about preventing Buffelgrass and Stinknet from smothering fragile Desert Ecosystems in Arizona. We als...
  Tony Santore author
2024-03-01

  The Closing of Duke Herbarium

A conversation with Dr. Kathleen Pryer (Director, Duke University Herbarium) and Dr. Michael Windham, (Curator of Vascular Plants, Duke University Herbarium) about the University's Decision to cut costs by closing the herbarium as well as the general t...
  Tony Santore author
2024-02-27

  Baja Buckwheats, Railroad Stories & Prosopidastrum

Rants about encountering a cool new legume species in the fog deserts and giant cactus landscapes of Baja California, the diversity of perennial raaaaagweeds in the deserts, Gabbro soils, a buckwheat that produces flowers along the ground, Arugula acti...
  Tony Santore author
2024-02-24

  Annotated, Profanity-laden Dichotomous Keys & the Fungal Ecology of Baja Chaparral

A long, disjointed rant about using and writing Dichotomous Keys and why it's sometimes a process of grasping for straws or throwing a bunch of stuff to a wall to see what sticks, what an ideal floral key might look like if it were written by a neuroti...
  Tony Santore author
2024-02-08

  Javelina Mngmnt, Restoration, & Peyote Vultures

More Deranged Rants, this time about Javelina Management, Getting City Approval for Cactus Restoration and Street Trees, growing endangered plants from seed, Eocene Sandstone, growing xeric ferns from spore, working the Ozol Local and running freight t...
  Tony Santore author
2024-02-01

  Limestone Desert Ferns, Montezuma Cypress on the Border

Rants about Montezuma Cypress on the Rio Grande, Cool Desert Ferns in West Texas and the Subfamily Cheilanthoideae of the fern family Pteridaceae, DEA permits for Peyote, Mountain Lions vs. Auodads, kind Caucasian Birders behaving at the Mexican border...
  Tony Santore author
2024-01-14

  Watering Before a Freeze, Goliad Gravels

Rants about South Texas Geology, Geologic Timeline Apps for your D@mn phone, why its better to water before a freeze, being dragged by a freight train leaving Ft. Worth Texas, how much self-hate someone must have in order to lower themselves to the poi...
  Tony Santore author