Lifelong friends Susan Brandt & Marney Blair talk with experts about the amazing wild critters that live in the Sierra Nevada mountains and foothills.
Latest Episodes
Grappletail Dragonfly
In Critter Chat episode 8, hosts Marney Blair and Susan Brandt chat with Dr. David Herbst of the Sierra Streams Institute at Little Deer Creek in Pioneer Park in Nevad...
The California State Bat - The Pallid Bat
In 2023 the California legislature voted to make the Pallid bat (antrozous pallidus), the only flying mammal, a symbol of California. Bat biologist Dr. Dave Johnston h...
Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep
A survivor of six ice ages, the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep, with populations documented living 300,000 years ago, is now on the endangered species list. These majesti...
Coyotes
Photo: © Annica Kreuter/Project CoyoteJoin hosts Susan Brandt and Marney Blair as they chat about the incredibly beautiful, adaptable and clever coyotes that live amon...
Western Bumble Bees
Join Marney and Susan as the get to know bumblebees and the Western Bumble Bee. Photo: Western Bumble Bee, Jeremy Gatten, US Fish & WildlifeThanks to our guests on the...
