Chihuahuan Desert
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Sep 26, 2026
Beowulf RocklinHOST
The special elections were called after the lawmakers who previously held the three seats resigned from Parliament earlier this year.
Beowulf RocklinHOST
A total of 47 American bison were reintroduced into the El Santuario Reserve in a protected area within the Chihuahuan Desert, according to a recent report.
Beowulf RocklinHOST
The reintroduction was carried out in two stages.
Beowulf RocklinHOST
Three bison arrived in August of last year, followed by 44 more in November.
Justin JulanderHOST
Yeah, that's right.
Justin JulanderHOST
Um, the Chihuahuan, uh, green toad.
Justin JulanderHOST
Yeah.
Justin JulanderHOST
Um, really they're, they're always fun to see, of course.
RyanHOST
Um,
Nick ShobingerGUEST
and a lot of that, you kind of get into that Chihuahuan grassland habitat where, um, it's a little bit less, um, cholla, um, a lot less prickly stuff and a little bit grassier sort of open, um, terrain with a lot, with more prickly pear, um, and that sort of habitat and really, and really what I look for, um, it is, I mean, I pay attention to like the moisture and what areas are being hit by precipitation, um, throughout the year.
Nick ShobingerGUEST
Um, but when you
RyanHOST
say throughout the year, you mean like for desert birds, like winter, winter months?
speaker_0HOST
Physical purging, vomiting, shaking, crying is considered a normal and often horrible welcomed part of the process, understood as literal and energetic release happening together.
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Peyote, Lophophora williamsii, is a small spineless cactus native to the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico and southern Texas, containing the psychoactive alkaloid mescaline.
speaker_0HOST
Among the Huichol people specifically, ceremony centers on Tatarari, the sacred fire, around which participants gather to consume peyote buttons, while a marakame, a trained shaman singer, chants through the entire night, understood as opening nierikas, interdimensional portals connecting participants to ancestral and spirit presences.
speaker_0HOST
This differs in real structure from ceremony within the Native American church itself, which developed its own distinct format, typically held inside a teepee through the night, led by a designated roadman guiding the ceremony's course, with a fireman tending a central sacred fire and a cedar woman or water woman bringing water at dawn to close the ceremony.
Pappy GNARRATOR
Big Bend sits right here in Texas.
Pappy GNARRATOR
400 miles of Chihuahuan Desert, canyon, and sky set aside that every Texan, every American, every person who needs to find something bigger than themselves There's a place to go.
Pappy GNARRATOR
Writer Wallace Stegner called the national park system the best ideal America had ever had.
Pappy GNARRATOR
And he wasn't wrong.
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What makes the Marfa lights enduring as a phenomenon beyond the scientific question is the setting.
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The Chihuahuan Desert east of Marfa is a landscape that seems designed to produce optical anomalies.
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The terrain is flat and open for dozens of kilometres in every direction, broken only by distant mountain ranges that shimmer and distort in the temperature gradients above the desert floor.
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The atmospheric conditions that produce mirage effects are present on most clear nights.
Paul KikerNARRATOR
Meta sold more than 7 million AI glasses in 2025, up from 2 million over the prior two years, and expects at least 20 million a year by the end of 2026.
Paul KikerNARRATOR
In environmental news, Mexico released 44 American bison, 38 females, and 6 males on November 26, 2025, at El Santuario Wildlife Reserve in Coahuila's Cuatro Cienegas landscape, returning the species to the Chihuahuan Desert after more than 200 years.
Paul KikerNARRATOR
their hooves, wool, and dung break soil, spread seed, and improve water infiltration on a 324-square-mile mosaic of pools, gypsum dunes, and grasslands.
Paul KikerNARRATOR
Gerardo Ruiz-Smith of Fundacion Pro.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The air is now heavy with the scent of what waits above, a cool, wet forest full of food and entirely devoid of black bears.
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She marches higher into the Chisos Mountains, a forested range of peaks marooned in the Chihuahuan Desert and entirely within the boundaries of the national park, and discovers what her keen sense of smell, and perhaps an ancestral instinct, has compelled her to come all this way to find.
speaker_0NARRATOR
She's now in what scientists call a sky island, a geographically isolated habitat high in the Chisos, complete with its own microclimate and a biodiversity that is unique to this part of the region.
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Her species used to call this habitat their home until a few decades ago.
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Each episode investigates a moment when human activity collided with the natural world and follows what happened next and who was left to deal with the fallout.
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In far southwest Texas, hemmed in by a sweeping curve of the Rio Grande, is the aptly named Big Bend National Park.
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The park protects more than 800,000 acres, about 1,252 square miles, including the largest intact portion of the Chihuahuan desert ecosystem in the US.
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The desert itself covers roughly 200,000 square miles, 90% of which is in Mexico.
GeorgiaHOST
And the person who made the emergency call was a 12-year-old girl.
GeorgiaHOST
Back in 1990, Las Cruces Bowl was a popular bowling alley in the city of Las Cruces, which was the second most popular city in the state of New Mexico, sitting on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert and just under 50 miles north of the Mexican border.
GeorgiaHOST
Las Cruces Bowl was a family-run business owned by Ronald Sinek, with his daughter Stephanie Sinek as the manager on the day in question, which was again 10th of February, 1990.
GeorgiaHOST
The staff started to arrive that morning around 8am.
Peter ByckHOST
Even I was like, I wonder if they could do it there, like in the Karoo.
Peter ByckHOST
And being on the land with James Brody and seeing what he's doing, it's It's showing me that what I know Alejandro Carrillo's doing in the Chihuahuan Desert and what he's doing here in the high desert here.
Peter ByckHOST
Man, if this thing's working at those sort of semi-arid, very brittle areas...
Peter ByckHOST
We can do this.
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