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.
Coast Range Radio is on all podcasting services (Apple Podcasts, Spotify). Subscribe to get the newest episode each month. Please rate and review to help spread the word and consider donating to help expand the show. And let us know what you think! Email michael@coastrange.org with feedback, guest and show suggestion, or just to say hi!
Coast Range Radio’s most recent episode:
Is The Forest Service Using The Threat Of Wildfire To Increase Logging??
The Forest Service is using the threat of wildfires to justify a drastic expansion of commercial logging on our public lands.
That is the contention in an investigative reporting series from Nathan Gilles at Columbia Insight. Many of us in the environmental world have long thought this to be the case, and this series brings the receipts, including internal Forest Service documents, emails, and more.
The Forest Service has received billions of dollars in recent years on top of their normal budget specifically to protect communities from wildfire. If they are using those funds to push commercial logging, they are not only not making communities safer, they may very well be putting communities and forests at greater risk by using methods that increase the risk of high severity fire.
We go deep on Nathan’s reporting on the scandal, as well as some of his other science reporting.
*** Quick Reminder to take action to push the Forest Service during the Northwest Forest Plan Amendment comment period. That comment period ends on March 17th, so please take just a few minutes to speak up for our forests. See below for links and resources.
Cascadia Wildlands NWFP Action Page: https://www.cascwild.org/weigh-in-on-the-future-of-northwest-public-forests/
Tribal sign on letter https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdybP5o7aSUBUaBuHV2MpZER54vX-Twmoi72DGJDPqX7jJeNA/viewform
My email is michael@coastrange.org, I love getting feedback and show ideas so drop me line!
Show Notes:
USFS investigative pieces
- Part 1 https://columbiainsight.org/exclusive-the-forest-service-is-using-the-threat-of-wildlfires-to-meet-timber-targets/
- Part 2 https://columbiainsight.org/a-mount-hood-forest-fuel-break-project-could-remove-old-growth-trees/
Other Stories
- Assisted Migration Primer: https://columbiainsight.org/what-is-assisted-migration-and-what-are-the-risks/
- Fungi and Assisted Migration: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/even-trees-need-friends
- How Hot Is Too Hot? https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/between-hot-drought-and-heat-waves-climate-change-is-killing-trees#%23
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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