90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection Podcast
Hosted by Chris Clarke · Chris Clarke
4.8from 81 ratings
- 163
- Episodes
- 47
- Transcribed
- 81
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 2K
- YouTube views
About 90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection Podcast
Join Chris Clarke and a variety of guests as they explore the challenges and opportunities of the American Southwest's fragile ecosystems. Engaging interviews with experts, activists, and advocates on conservation, land management, and environmental justice. Science and sentiment, politics and philosophy, hiking and history, culture and creativity all go into defending the desert. Be forewarned: We are out to recruit you to the cause.
- Publisher
- Chris Clarke
- Category
- science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 29 Jun 2021
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
47 of 163 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
S5E34: Chihuahuan Desert 101 with Dr. Kevin Floyd
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
S5E33: From Starfleet to the Sonoran Desert: Coping With a Burro Onslaught
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
S5E32: Hiding Big Projects in Small Pieces
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S5E34: Chihuahuan Desert 101 with Dr. Kevin Floyd
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The Chihuahuan Desert was typically more of a desert grassland in a lot of areas. Of course, a lot of that has been lost to agriculture and development and drought and things like that. But we don't have the giant cactus, partly because of the freezes. Chihuahuan desert aficionados are always jealous of the saguaros in the Sonoran and the Joshua trees and the Mojave. There's those really signature vegetation that we don't really have here. Here we have a lot of agaves, yuccas. grasses, shrubs, cacti. We actually have more cactus in the Chihuahuan Desert than the other deserts, more species of cactus, but a lot of them tend to be smaller. […]
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- Kevin Floyd
- Jen Anderson
- Joe Dana
- Kimon de Greef
- Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho
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- YouTube views
- 1,924
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 53 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 28 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 85
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