Coast Range Radio
At Coast Range Radio, we interview folks who work to build just communities that provide for people and the natural world. We are particularly interested in the connections between Oregon’s forests, social justice, and the climate crisis.
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Coast Range Radio’s most recent episode:
Fighting for our Drinking Water, with North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection
Whether you live in a city, a small town, or even if you get your water from a well like I do, one of the biggest threats to drinking water in the Pacific Northwest is industrial logging.
(A hugely notable exception is portland, which as my guest will touch on in the interview, does not allow logging in its drinking water source, the Bull Run watershed. Portland’s water also happens to be famous for its purity and taste, probably a coincidence though…)
However, by law, Oregon’s drinking watersheds have no special protections to safeguard them from being polluted or destroyed by industrial logging, and many watersheds are in the hands of large timber corporations whose executives could not care less about our drinking water.
One of the worst examples of this dynamic is Jetty Creek, which is the sole source of drinking water for Rockaway Beach on Oregon’s North Coast.
We at the Coast Range Association have long supported and assisted the work of North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection, and I’m excited to be able to highlight their work fighting to safeguard drinking water for their communities.
They are a great example of a grassroots organizing campaign based around a local issue that also connects their struggle to the broader justice movement.
Before we get to that, I wanted to give a very quick update on our campaign to protect the Siuslaw National Forest, or as some folks have called it, the Siuslaw Strategic National Carbon Reserve.
Many of our listeners already know that the Coast Range is the most productive temperate rainforest in the world in terms of its carbon sequestration potential. Basically, the trees grow really big, really fast, and can live for a very long time if we don’t cut them down.
As the only National Forest in the Coast Range, the Siuslaw not only provides critical habitat for endangered species, it can either serve as a carbon sink or a carbon bomb, based on the management practices of the Forest Service.
And as we’ve discussed in depth on previous episodes, the Forest Service is in the middle of dual processes amending its management practices. So what could possibly go wrong, right?
The Coast Range Association is engaged in a summer of action to protect the Siuslaw, and we need your help. Whether you can come out into the woods with us, help organize events, table at farmers markets, or don’t know what to do, we can use your help!
We’ll have more updates as our campaign progresses, but for now, go to coastrange.org and click the Siuslaw National Forest Action Page to learn more and sign up, and you can email me at michael@coastrange.org anytime.
Show Notes:
Siuslaw National Forest Action Page: https://coastrange.org/coast-range-association/siuslaw-action/
North Coast Communities For Watershed Protection: https://healthywatershed.org/
Save Mothball Hill campaign: https://www.change.org/Save-MothballHill-DavisRidge-SloughHill-from-Clearcutting
Coast Range Radio – Oregon Marine Reserve Partnership Series:
This is a series celebrating the 10th anniversary of Oregon’s Marine Reserve Program! A Marine Reserve is an area within coastal waters dedicated to scientific research and conservation, where all ocean development and removal of marine life is prohibited.
Think of it as a combination of an underwater State Park, a wildlife preserve, and a living laboratory!
Here in Oregon, we have five designated Marine reserves. From North to South, they are located offshore of Cape Falcon, Cascade Head, Otter Rock, Cape Perpetua, and way down South near Port Orford, Redfish Rocks.
In part one, we get a great high level overview of Oregon’s Marine Reserve System with Oregon Fish and Wildlife’s former Marine Reserve Program Leader, Cristin Don.
For parts two and three of our Marine Reserve series, we’ll be talking with our community partners from each Reserve up and down the coast. We’ll be hearing from Nadia Gardner from Cape Falcon and North Coast Land Conservancy, Duncan Berry with the Cascade Head Biosphere Reserve, Roy Anderson with Friends of Otter Rock, Katy Bear Nalven with Cape Perpetua Collaborative, and Tom Calvanese with Redfish Rocks.
Tune in to Coast Range Radio on these local Oregon stations:
KMUN 91.9 FM & KTCB 89.5 FM, Aberdeen, Astoria and Tillamook: 2nd & 4th Tuesdays at 9 a.m.
KYAQ 91.7 FM, Newport: Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. & Sundays at 6:30 p.m.
KXCR 90.7 FM, Florence: Mondays twice monthly at 4:30 p.m.
KBOG 97.9 FM, Bandon: 1st & 3rd Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
KCIW-LP 100.7 FM, Brookings: Thursdays at 5:30 p.m., Fridays at 10:30 a.m., and Saturdays at 6 p.m.
KBOO 90.7 FM, Portland: Twice monthly at 5:30 p.m. on KBOO Evening News
KMUZ 100.7 and 88.5 FM, Salem: Twice monthly at 8 a.m. on the Willamette Wake Up
KORC 105.9 FM, Corvallis: Sundays at 12 p.m.
KEPW 97.3 FM, Eugene: Saturdays at 2:30 p.m.
KOCF 92.7 FM, Fern Ridge: 1st & 3rd Tuesday at 9 p.m.
KSOW 106.7 FM, Cottage Grove: Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. & Mondays at 1:30 p.m.
KQUA 99.7 FM, Roseburg: Saturdays at 8 a.m. & Sundays at 7 p.m.
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