Coast Range Radio
94 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -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 a radio show and podcast from the nonprofit conservation organization, the Coast Range Association. Located in Western Oregon, the Coast Range Association works to build just and sustainable communities that provide for people and the natural world. Our work focuses on the connections between Oregon’s forests, communities, and the climate crisis.
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Northwest Forest Plan: Protecting the Siuslaw National Forest
April 22, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBToday, we’re going to go deep on an incredibly important subject, albeit one with a somewhat less than stirring name if you aren’t already familiar: The northwest forest plan The northwest forest plan sets the overall management strategy for 17 National Forests across a staggering 24 million acres of federal lands in Washington, Oregon and northwestern California, and the forest service is in the process of changing that plan in a significant way for the first time in its 30 year history! ...
Celebrating Two Recent Victories for Oceans and State Forests!
April 09, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBIt is important to celebrate our victories, and today we get to talk about two of them! The Oregon Board of Forestry (BoF) recently voted to approve its first ever Habitat Conservation Plan on State Forests, and a bill to fully fund and strengthen Oregon’s Marine Reserve Program sailed through the recent legislative session. To talk about these victories and get updates on what’s ahead for both of these campaigns, I’m joined today by one of the leaders of each of these efforts. Charlie Pl...
The Campaign for Oregon's Estuaries, with Annie Merrill
March 26, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBWe often think of the land and the sea as separate worlds that have little to do with each other. But that barrier is much more fluid and interconnected than many people realize. We’ve talked on this program before about what folks call the ‘Land-Sea Connection’, and today we’re going to talk about the ‘connection’ piece of that equation, estuaries! Estuaries are where the land and sea meet and intermingle, and are some of the most productive ecosystems in the world. To talk all about the...
The Canopy of Titans! With Author Paul Koberstein
March 11, 2024 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBOn today’s show, Canopy of Titans: the Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest! Canopy of Titans is a new book written by journalists Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate which shines a light on the critical importance of protecting the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Paul and Jessica spent years reporting and researching for this book, traveling from the redwoods all the way up to alaska, and interviewing dozens of scientists, activists, experts, a...
Are we on the Cusp of a Community Forest Revolution?! With Alexander Harris
February 27, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBWhere I live in the coast range, I am surrounded in all directions by industrial timber plantations for miles in all directions. Now, I have no problem with logging. I think silviculture is a good and noble profession. But it is plain for anyone to see that the short rotation, financialized plantation management practiced by the Wall Street investors who own the vast majority of private timberland is destroying our communities and ecosystems. The Coast Range Association has been highligh...
"The Most Dangerous Dam in Oregon"! Plus, the Williams Community Forest Project
February 12, 2024 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBFor those of us who work to make a positive impact on the world, there is often a default towards focusing on big national and international level issues. Between the rapidly worsening climate crisis, national campaigns to preserve Mature and Old growth forests, decarbonization and electrification fights, never-ending election cycles, on and on, it’s easy to forget that there are important local, grassroots struggles happening in communities everywhere that deserve our support and attentio...
Taxing Big Timber to Protect Communities from Wildfire
January 23, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBI don’t have to tell anyone reading this that here in the west, wildfires are a fact of life. I’m also sure that most folks are already aware that the climate crisis, combined with more and more homes being built in and around forest lands is creating an escalating cycle of devastation in fire prone communities. There is a tremendous amount of pressure on politicians and agencies to act, or at least to be seen to be acting, but right now, too many people, including many key decision makers,...
State Representative David Gomberg on Marine Reserves, Rural Infrastructure, and Much More!
January 09, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis is our first episode of 2024, and I can’t think of a better guest to start the year off with than State Representative David Gomberg. Representative Gomberg represents House district 10, which encompassess Lincoln County, as well as parts of western Benton and Lane counties, and happens to be my State Representative. Among many other positions, he serves as co-vice chair of the powerful Ways and Means budgeting committee and co-chair of the subcommittee on Transportation and Economic ...
Reflecting on 2023, and What's Ahead for the Coast Range Association
December 12, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIt’s dark, it’s cold, and it’s very rainy. We may be a couple weeks from the solstice as of this recording, but for my money, we’ve definitely entered another coast range winter. I love to use this time of year to reflect and take stock, so I figured it was a great time to invite the Coast Range Association’s Executive director, Chuck Willer back for our annual year in review episode. You can find out more about everything we’ll be discussing today at our website, coastrange.org, and I re...
Bonus - Brenna TwoBears on NoDAPL, an Indigenous Just Transition, and More!
December 05, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBI recently had a great interview with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network, but I couldn’t fit our whole conversation into our last full episode. Brenna came on to talk about IEN’s ongoing fight to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, and how you can take action by submitting comments to the army corps of engineers by December 13th. But we also covered a lot more ground, and I really appreciated what Brenna had to say on the broader context of an indigenous just tra...
Bonus - Brenna TwoBears on NoDAPL, the Indigenous Just Transition, and More!
December 05, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBI recently had a great interview with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network, but I couldn’t fit our whole conversation into our last full episode. Brenna came on to talk about IEN’s ongoing fight to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, and how you can take action by submitting comments to the army corps of engineers by December 13th. But we also covered a lot more ground, and I really appreciated what Brenna had to say on the broader context of an indigenous just tra...
Elliott State Forest DRAMA! Plus, The Ongoing Fight to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
November 28, 2023 23:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBToday, we have not one, but two amazing guests talking about two important and timely topics: the Dakota Access Pipeline fight, and the recent Elliot State Forest drama. Bob Sallinger joins to walk me through the bombshell that Oregon State University just dropped on the Elliott State forest process, and why them walking away might actually be good news. But first, we’ll hear a short excerpt of my conversation with Brenna TwoBears from the Indigenous Environmental Network about their ongoi...
Forests Over Profits, part 3 - Can Forests "Own" Themselves?! With John Brush
November 14, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBThis is part three of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring selected presentations from the Forests Over Profits Conference that the Coast Range Association helped organize this September. I’m so excited for you to hear this talk by John Brush of the Cedar Moon Collective and Tryon Life Farm, entitled, "Should Anyone Own The Forest?". From the "Rights of Nature" legal movement, to community forestry, and resurgent indigenous sovereignty, Brush shared a diverse and creative set of appr...
Forests Over Profits, part 2 - Wall St vs Forests and Communities, with Chuck Willer
October 24, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis episode is part two of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring excerpts from our Forests Over Profits conference and protests this past September. If you’re not familiar with this series, here’s what you need to know: This September, the Coast Range Association, in partnership with many other amazing organizations, organized a series of protests and a day long Forests Over Profits conference in response to a corporate timberland investment conference called, and this is their title...
Forests Over Profits, part 1 - Chuck Willer
October 24, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis episode is part two of our Forests Over Profits series, featuring excerpts from our Forests Over Profits conference and protests this past September. If you’re not familiar with this series, here’s what you need to know: This September, the Coast Range Association, in partnership with many other amazing organizations, organized a series of protests and a day long Forests Over Profits conference in response to a corporate timberland investment conference called, and this is their title...
Forests Over Profits Bonus Pod: Indigenous Environmental Network Panel!
October 18, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBHopefully, you’ve already heard our last two episodes on the Who Will Own The Forest conference, or maybe you attended the Forests Over Profits protest or counter-conference that We helped organize in response. If not, I would highly encourage you to go back and listen to the episode I did a few weeks back called, “Who Will Own the Forest, with Brenna Bell” so you can have some context for this episode. You can also go to forestsoverprofits.org to learn more. As everyone who attended our ...
Forests Over Profits, part 1 - Following Indigenous Leadership
October 09, 2023 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis September, The Coast Range Association, along with partners like 350pdx, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network, the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, and many more, organized a major protest and counter conference in response to the Who Will Own The Forest timber investor conference. If you aren’t familiar with the Who Will Own the Forest Conference, I’d encourage you to listen to the episode with Brenna Bell of 350pdx, which you can find on this pod feed...
Forests Over Profits, part 1 - Indigenous Leadership
October 09, 2023 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis September, The Coast Range Association, along with partners like 350pdx, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network, the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, and many more, organized a major protest and counter conference in response to the Who Will Own The Forest timber investor conference. If you aren’t familiar with the Who Will Own the Forest Conference, I’d encourage you to listen to the episode with Brenna Bell of 350pdx, which you can find on this pod feed...
"Who Will Own The Forest?" With Brenna Bell
September 12, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBWe talk a lot on this show about the devastation wrought on our environment and communities by invasive capitalism, and today we get to talk about something tangible we can do to fight back! On September 26-28, Wall Street investors will join timber corporations, big oil, carbon offset & biomass companies in Portland for their annual “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference. With tickets costing over two thousand dollars apiece, this “timberland investment conference” brings together some of...
Fighting the "Biomass Delusion" with Rita Frost and Peter Riggs
August 29, 2023 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBOne of the most important questions in the drive to rapidly decarbonize our society is how to replace fossil fuel generated electricity with clean, renewable sources And one of the key questions there is, what counts as clean and renewable? Today’s episode is all about biomass energy, which is essentially the burning of pelletized wood for electricity. The Biomass industry is valued at over 100 billion dollars per year and growing, and many countries count biomass as renewable and carbon ...
North Coast Land Conservancy's Katie Voelke on Oregon's Land-Sea Connection, reckoning with ownership of stolen lands, and more!
August 14, 2023 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBNorth Coast Land Conservancy, or NCLC, has been working to conserve land along the northern Oregon coast and coast range for nearly 40 years, and Katie Voelke has been its Executive Director since 2008. In this interview, she discusses NCLC's conservation philosophy, Oregon's land-sea connection, reckoning with the ownership model of conservation on stolen indigenous lands, and more. Learn more about North Coast Land Conservancy at https://nclctrust.org/ Learn about our organization, the ...
Representative Mark Gamba on Oregon's 2023 Legislative Session - Part Two
July 25, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis episode is part two of my conversation with State Representative Mark Gamba, breaking down the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2023 legislative session Mark Gamba represents house district 41, which encompasses Milwaukie, Oak Grove, and parts of Southeast Portland. I knew I could trust him to give an honest assessment of his first year in Salem, and he really delivered. You don’t need to listen to episode one before jumping into the second half of our conversation, but I highly ...
Representative Mark Gamba is NOT Happy About Oregon's 2023 Legislative Session - Part One
July 10, 2023 22:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBAs the dust settles on another chaotic legislative session, I wanted to look back, revisit some of the bills we dug into on previous episodes, and explore how we can keep pressure on our legislators between sessions. I couldn’t think of a better person to guide us through the good, the bad, and the ugly of this legislative session than one of oregon’s most tireless climate champions, State Representative Mark Gamba. I’ve known Mark since I worked as the field director for his 2020 congre...
(Updates!) "Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire", with Oregon Filmaker Trip Jennings
June 26, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBAs we head into fire season, I wanted to revisit an episode from last year about an amazing documentary film called Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire. After a nationwide theatrical release and over a dozen awards, Elemental has just come out on streaming on Amazon, Apple TV, Google play, and Vimeo. Fire is, and always has been, a permanent part of our western landscapes and ecosystems, but the debate and policy prescriptions around how to protect our communities is shockingly disconnected fr...
(Updated) "Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire", with Trip Jennings
June 26, 2023 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBAs we head into fire season, I wanted to revisit an episode from last year about an amazing documentary film called Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire. After a nationwide theatrical release and over a dozen awards, Elemental has just come out on streaming on Amazon, Apple TV, Google play, and Vimeo. Fire is, and always has been, a permanent part of our western landscapes and ecosystems, but the debate and policy prescriptions around how to protect our communities is shockingly disconnected fr...
Only YOU Can Prevent Logging Old Growth on Federal Lands! Take Action By June 20th
June 13, 2023 13:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBAs regular listeners may know, the Coast Range Association is a member of the Forest Climate Coalition, which is pushing for strong and durable protections of mature and old growth forests on our federal lands. As you probably also know, mature and old growth forests are absolute superstars for preserving biodiversity and sequestering carbon. Both of those ecosystem services are desperately needed in the face of the twin crises of climate chaos and ongoing mass species extinction. As a...
Is the Forest Service "Falsifying the Scientific Record" on Wildfires? With Chad Hanson, PhD
May 22, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBWildfires are a fact of life in the American west. They have played a major role in our western ecosystems for millenia. But as the climate crisis deepens, and more people move into wildfire country, fires loom larger and larger in the public consciousness. Wildfires are reshaping everything from our landscapes to our politics, and the implications of how we respond to them will play a huge role in shaping our future. In the midst of this, a scientific debate is raging over what the scie...
Oregon's State Forests Need Your Help! Creating an Enduring Conservation Legacy on the North Coast
May 08, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBOregon manages over half a million acres of state forest land. That land is every bit as public as national forests, but historically, the state and the timber industry has treated it as just another timber plantation. But that’s finally changing, and right now, the Oregon Board of Forestry is considering a Habitat Conservation plan which would set aside almost half of that land for long term stream and forest habitat conservation in the most critical areas of the forest. This would be a ...
Rebroadcast: A Tale of Two Fires with Tim Ingalsbee
April 24, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBCoast Range Radio’s interview with Timothy Ingalsbee, Ph.D. We discuss a new messaging guide - Incendiary Rhetoric: Climate Change, Wildfire, and Ecological Fire Management from Tim’s organization, Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics & Ecology. To find the guide and to learn more visit their website, fusee.org. Tim is a leading expert in fire ecology and provides many insights to the large fires impacting Oregon and the west in 2020. Our conversation reveals several inconvenient truths...
Oregon's Most Important Climate Legislation This Year, with Teryn Yazdani
April 10, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBWe’ve already done a couple shows this spring on Oregon’s 2023 legislative session, and I would highly recommend you give those episodes a listen if you haven’t already. But today we’re going to talk about the bill I’m most excited about this year - Senate Bill 530, aka the Natural Climate Solutions bill Amid all of the other pressing issues worthy of our time and energy, climate change stands alone as the singular crisis where we have no second chances if our society does not act now. ...
Fighting Back Against Big Ag in Oregon with Stand Up to Factory Farms
March 27, 2023 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBWe talk a lot on this show and in the Coast Range Association work more broadly, about the invasive plague of global capital into our timberlands, all just about all other aspects of our world. One of the key frontlines in the fight against that invasion is mega factory farms, and the pacific northwest is a huge land grab target for Big Ag. I want to say right up top, this episode is not about eating meat or not. No matter where you stand on eating meat, factory farms are an indefensib...
Why You Should Care About 'Blue Carbon', with Joanna Lyle and Sylvia Troost
March 13, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBToday’s topic is something I’ve been interested in learning more about for a while now. Many of you may be familiar with the amazing carbon sequestration potential of mature and old-growth forests, and I hope our listeners are familiar with the Coast Range Association’s groundbreaking land reform work focusing on private timberlands. But forests aren’t the only ecosystem heroes in our fight against climate change. Our oceans and nearshore environments hold enormous potential as well. Blu...
What You Need to Know About Oregon's 2023 Legislative Session
February 27, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBThe 2023 legislative session is underway, and a LOT of interesting Bills have been introduced. Speaking from experience I think the legislative process can be pretty daunting and somewhat byzantine if you’re not already familiar with it. So I wanted to make an episode to help folks understand some of the most important climate, forestry, and conservation focused bills that have been introduced, and how to meaningfully engage with the process To help me unpack what we should all be payi...
Exploring the Potential of Regenerative Aquaculture in the Pacific Northwest
January 23, 2023 22:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBAquaculture is the intentional cultivation of aquatic organisms like fish, mollusks, and aquatic plants, and humans have been practicing it in various forms for thousands of years. If I asked you to picture what aquaculture looks like, there’s a good chance that if anything comes to mind, it would be environmentally destructive salmon farms, which are basically the underwater equivalent to confined factory animal farming operations. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Aquaculture can be...
Celebrating Victory on the Flat Country Timber Sale with Madeline Cowen!
January 10, 2023 23:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBToday’s show is a perfect start to the new year - celebrating a win! We’ve talked extensively in past episodes about the vital role that intact and recovering western forests play in carbon sequestration and preserving biodiversity. We’ve also talked about the threats to those forests. Even as the climate emergency deepens and President Biden has issued executive orders to preserve mature and old growth forests, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management have proposed timber sales ...
California's Tribal Marine Stewards Network, with Amah Mutsun Chairman Valentin Lopez
December 20, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBOn today’s show, we’re heading south to California to learn about the groundbreaking Tribal Marine Stewards Network. The Tribal Marine Stewards Network, or TMSN, is an alliance of Tribal Nations working collaboratively to reclaim their right to protect and restore coastal and marine ecosystems in California. Even in the modern era, government agencies have historically been either resistant, or outright hostile to, Tribal co-management and sovereignty, (google northwest fishing wars for ...
What a Year! Coast Range Association's 2022 in review with Chuck Willer
December 06, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MB2022, like the last several years, has been quite a ride! And we at the Coast Range Association have been hard at work all year, providing the kind of inter-sectional analysis that no other organization brings to western Oregon and the coast. So as we enter into the reflective days of December, I thought it would be a good idea to have our Executive Director, Chuck Willer, back on the show to discuss what we've been up to, and what 2023 might have in store for CRA. If you want to learn mo...
Worth More Standing: The Poor Windy Timber Sale with George Sexton & Sangye Ince Johannsen
November 21, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutes - 26.2 MBToday’s episode is part of an ongoing semi- monthly series i’m putting together on Threatened Mature and Old Growth Forest in the united states. Mature and oldgrowth forest are vital resources for carbon sequestration, biodiversity resilience, watershed protection, air purification, and so much more. some studies show that old growth counts for as little as seven percent of our remaining forestlands. Yet mature and old growth forests, which by definition take generations to regenerate, ar...
Rally For Climate Forests in Portland! Thursday Nov 17th, 11:30am, Terry Schrunk Plaza
November 16, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.6 MBJoin us TOMORROW (or today, depending on when you're listening), Thursday, November 17th, 11:30am, at Terry Schrunk Plaza in Downtown Portland, as we rally to say that Mature and Old Growth Forests are Worth More Standing! Preserving our mature and old-growth forests is one of the best ways we can fight climate change, as well as preserve wildlife habitat and drinking water. Join us and other activists rallying across the country to make sure the Forest Service (and the President!) know our...
Rebroadcast: Oregon Author Robert Leo Heilman on Rural Extremism & Life in Timber Country
November 08, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBWe're hard at work on some ambitious new episodes! In the meantime, we're re-visiting one of our most popular episodes: Andrew interviews award winning and prolific author, essayist, and commentator Robert Leo Heilman from Myrtle Creek, Oregon. Bob is the author of several books including Overstory Zero: Real Life in Timber Country, Children of Death, and The World Pool: A Literary Variety. He has also been a prolific contributor to guest columns in the News Review in Roseburg. Bob has ...
Oregon's Wild 2022 Election, and its Impact on Climate, Forests, and More
October 24, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBBallots are out for the 2022 general election, and it is no exaggeration to say that this is the most consequential election for Oregonians in years if not decades. Three out of six of Oregon’s seats for the US house of representatives are considered tossups where either the Democrat or Republican could win, and the race for Governor is anyone’s game. To put that into perspective, Republicans haven’t held the Governor’s seat since 1986, and our federal delegation to the US House could swin...
Ron Wyden Goes Big! The River Democracy Act w/ Jamie Dawson
October 10, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBToday’s show is about a topic that is near and dear to my heart - Wild and Scenic rivers! We in Oregon are so fortunate to have not only amazing waterways, but also a history of elected officials who have been willing to fight for them, and for public access. Without Wild and Scenic protections, many of our most special and important places in Oregon would not exist as we know them. What most folks don’t know is that only about 2% of our waterways are protected with this designation. Las...
The Film Changing the Narrative Around Wildfires, with 'Elemental' Director, Trip Jennings
September 26, 2022 17:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBFire is, and always has been, a permanent part of our western landscapes and ecosystems, but the debate and policy prescriptions around how to protect our communities is shockingly disconnected from the science and and on the ground reality. That’s why I’ve asked the director of an inspiring and powerful new film called ‘Elemental’ onto the show to talk about the realities of how we can co-exist with wildfires and create fire safe homes and communities. Trip Jennings is the Principal &...
Fighting for Mature and Old Growth Forests with Lauren Anderson
September 12, 2022 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBPreserving mature and old growth forests across the US is a critical piece of the puzzle in fighting climate change, and on Earth Day of this year, President Biden issued an executive order to "strengthen America's forests, boost wildfire resilience, and combat global deforestation". Great news, right? Not so fast. To learn more about the good, the bad, and the ugly of Federal forest and climate policy, I spoke with Oregon Wild’s Forest Climate Policy Coordinator, Lauren Anderson. Lauren ...
Exploring Oregon's Marine Reserves, Part Three - Otter Rock, Cape Perpetua, and Redfish Rocks
August 22, 2022 21:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis is part three of our series celebrating 10 years of Oregon’s Marine Reserve Program. For those who aren’t familiar, a Marine Reserve is an area within coastal waters dedicated to scientific research and conservation. 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...
Exploring Oregon's Marine Reserves, Part Two - Cape Falcon & Cascade Head
August 08, 2022 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis is part two of a three part 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...
Going Deep on Floating Offshore Wind Energy with Shannon Souza And Joe Liebezeit
July 26, 2022 21:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBOn the show today, we’re diving into the exciting and choppy waters of offshore wind! Floating Off-shore wind energy is relatively a new technology with huge potential. The federal Bureau of Oregon Energy Management estimates up to 3 gigawatts in near-term commercial potential off of the Southern Oregon coast alone. That’s enough power for over 200,000 homes. I’m excited for today’s topic, because it really encapsulates a lot of the complexity and messiness around what it looks like to...
Joe Seamons on Northwest Folk Music and Allyship
June 27, 2022 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBJoe Seamons is a musician and educator based in the Pacific Northwest and dedicated to helping people connect with their heritage through music and storytelling. Born and raised in Northwestern Oregon, Joe has made a living interpreting the songs and stories of the local sawmill, logging, and fishing ballads composed by elder working people and folklorists. Many of these songs are included on the 2016 album, Timberbound, In the same vein, Joe directed and served as executive producer for a...
Best of CRR: Levi Van Sant, Part 1
June 10, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBHello! I'm Michael Gaskill, your new host for Coast Range Radio. I'm hard at work putting together brand new episodes for the show, and we have some great guests lined up. I'm also always looking for feedback, show ideas, and guest suggestions! Email me at [email protected]. In the meantime, I wanted to replay on of my favorite epsiodes from the past couple years of the show. This is actually part one of a great two-part conversation between Andrew and Levi Van Sant (@LeviVanSant...
Oregon's Marine Reserves, Part 1 - Cristen Don
May 05, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBOutgoing Coast Range Radio host and producer, Andrew, introduces Michael Gaskill. Michael will be the new host and producer of Coast Range Radio and is the new communications staff for the Coast Range Association. Michael and Andrew interview Cristen Don who oversees the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife's Marine Reserve Program. Over the past 17 years Cristen's work has spanned a variety of ocean related topics including marine protected areas, ocean renewable energy, and fisheries. Cr...