Lesser Known New Mexico Podcast
Lesser Known New Mexico Podcast
Episode 2: Prepping for fire season + (Cyber)truck talk
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Episode 2: Prepping for fire season + (Cyber)truck talk

This week's guests: Tom Swetnam (Professor Emeritus of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona) + High Country News correspondent Shaun Griswold (Pueblo of Laguna with Jemez and Zuni ancestry)
Tom Swetnam talking tree rings in the Jemez

On this week’s Lesser Known New Mexico Podcast, we feature Tom Swetnam, Professor Emeritus of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona, who talks about his hopes for the future when it comes to managing healthy fire in southwestern forests. We also sit down with High Country News correspondent Shaun Griswold (Pueblo of Laguna with Jemez and Zuni ancestry), to discuss his recent essay, “The Cybertruck is all tricks and no truck, a musky Tesla fail.”

For more information:

The Jemez Mountains: A Cultural and Natural History, by Thomas W. Swetnam

The full interview with Tom Swetnam is on Substack, Apple, and Spotify.

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HCN correspondent Shaun Griswold

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