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This week, Luke talks about how he gets the most out of a turkey hunt and shares some tips for first-timers.

The Vestal Tuccia, charged with want of chastity, stands on the brink of the Tiber with a sieve, which she raises above her head with both hands, and thus prays to Vesta: 'Oh, powerful Goddess, if I have always approached thy altar with pure hands, allow me to fill this sieve with the water of the Tiber, and carry it into thy Temple!,'

Hello, Radio Readers! Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, here to reflect on Anne Carson’s Plainwater, an eclectic collection of essays and poetry – and just in time for April, National Poetry Month.

Some Drought Programs Helped

I’m Hannes Zacharias, and while I grew up in Dodge City, today I live in Lenexa, Kansas for High Plains Public Radio, Radio Reader’s Book Club. The book is “The Time it Never Rained” by Elmer Kelton.

Growing Up in the 50s Drought

Having grown up in the 1950s, hearing about various droughts, I was a bit surprised to learn that the 1950 to 1957 drought was so significant. It was certainly influential in my life, shaped not only my sense of nature, the harshness, the need to conserve, but also the importance of hope ...

The long-term consequences of “crash and burn” philosophies are sometimes unknown until it is too late to avoid the outcomes

The Book is Dense

Hello. My name is Cheryl Berzanskis and I’m from Amarillo.First let me tell you how I got to this Spring Radio Readers BookByte selection and why I think it is important. I am a member of a statewide group called Texas Master Naturalists, a function of Texas Parks and Wildlife.

High Plains Outdoors: Filaree Weed

This week, Larry Weishuhn (www.larryweishuhn.net) joins Luke to recap a deer hunt this past week out in west Texas. Contact Luke Clayton via email through his website www.catfishradio.org

Planting the Plains: Spring Bulb Care

Spring flowering bulb emergence is just around the corner! But a lot of folks don't realize that spring flowering bulbs should be fertilized as they first emerge from the ground, not when they're blooming, because at this stage, they're more able to absorb the nutrients in the fertilizer...and it's wasted if you apply the fertilizer when the plant is already flowering. Learn more fertilizing tips in this week's episode!

Percent change in aquifer thickness for the High Plains aquifer in Kansas, predevelopment to 2020–2022

Having a Water Moment

Water is almost top of mind in western Kansas. But that may be even more true now in both ends of the state. Commentator Rex Buchanan reflects on the recent uptick in interest in water issues, and some of the current thinking that’s driving that interest.

Fern was a volatile, unpredictable force who had what was then known as a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized for depression. Women on the plains in the dirty 30s were tested to their limits and such occurrences happened in many families. This depiction of the Women’s Corridor in what was called an insane asylum in the 1930s reminds readers of the slow progress made in the mental health field.

Changes In Mental Health Treatment Slow To Come

This is Linda Allen in Amarillo, Tx reading and writing about Lucas Bessire’s 2021 book “Running Out - In Search of Water on the High Plains”. Bessire’s treatise on the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer was a finalist for the National Book Award and named Book of the Year in 2022 by the Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A & M University.

Washing melons on the Arkansas River at Deerfield, KS

Lost Springs

I'm Hannes Zacharias, former resident of Dodge City, speaking for High Plains public radio, radio readers book club. The book is Running Out by Lucas Bessire, published in 2021.

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