Latest Forests Podcast Episodes

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Northwest Forest Plan: Protecting the Siuslaw National Forest

Coast Range Radio - April 22, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutes
Today, 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 ac...

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Toxic Soup in the Smith River

EcoNews Report - April 21, 2024 02:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
The Smith River needs your help. Agricultural operations along the estuary are polluting the river with high levels of pesticides. This pesticide pollution is impacting coho salmon, tidewater goby and other wildlife that rely on the river, as well as the human residents that live amongst the pol...

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Episode158 - Healing Ancestral Anger

Women's Power to Heal Mother Earth! - April 12, 2024 20:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
To parrot Frederich Nietzche, when we stare into the abyss for too long, the abyss stares back at us. I have found myself staring into the abyss,  perambulating its event horizon until my feet fell out, and my mind became blurred. The abyss staring back at me. Anger is necessary, it is a helpful...

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KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON on Pleasure as Pathway [ENCORE]

For The Wild - April 10, 2024 18:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Kimberly Ann Johnson originally aired in April 2023.  Feeling into the state of our nervous systems and our relationships with each other and ourselves, this episode offers a powerful perspective on the importance of recognizing and tending to ho...

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Celebrating Two Recent Victories for Oceans and State Forests!

Coast Range Radio - April 09, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes
It 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 ...

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Coping with Climate Anxiety

EcoNews Report - April 06, 2024 17:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” - Aldo Leopold Do you also have a gnawing, seemingly ever-present hum in the back of your head—an intrusive thought about the immensity of the climate crisis and your own miniscule ability to do anyt...

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SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps [ENCORE]

For The Wild - April 03, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Sophie Strand which originally aired in November 2022.  In this winding and lucid conversation, guest Sophie Strand invites us to investigate our relationality, to embrace rot and decay, to welcome our demons to the dinner table, and to prepare f...

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How Do Fish Get Counted, and Why Does Genetic Diversity Matter?

EcoNews Report - March 31, 2024 00:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
This week on the EcoNews Report, we discuss how fish are monitored and counted. Our host Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River is joined by Dave Kajtaniak from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Samantha Kannry from TRIB Research. Tune in to learn about the hopeful returns ...

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Episode 157 - I Am Happiness

Women's Power to Heal Mother Earth! - March 28, 2024 17:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
This illusive, sought after thing is not an illusion. It is tge ever flowing vibration beneath the grime, crime, and slime of living. It is immutable energy always present always accessible, if we learn how to stay open to it. Happiness is not what we think it is.  It is not to be found in the s...

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2. Frodsham Woods, Cheshire: a new lease of life

Woodland Walks - The Woodland Trust Podcast - March 28, 2024 11:17 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Join us for a jam-packed visit to Frodsham Woods, Cheshire, where 80 volunteers were planting thousands of trees to help transform a former golf course into a fantastic new space for wildlife and people. We visit the neighbouring ancient woodland and admire hilltop views with site manager Neil a...

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MAYA KHOSLA on What the Forest Holds [ENCORE]

For The Wild - March 27, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Maya Khosla which originally aired in November 2022. What can the forest teach us of grief, of joy, of humanity? This week, poet and scientist Maya Khosla invites listeners into the forests of Northern California to find deep reverence for the ...

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Best Wood Chips for Fruit Trees with Linda Chalker-Scott

Orchard People - March 27, 2024 01:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn about the best wood mulches for fruit trees with Linda Chalker-Scott, Professor of Horticulture at Washington State University in this episode of the Orchard People radio show and podcast. Linda is the award-winning author of six books including How Plants Work: The Science Behi...

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The Campaign for Oregon's Estuaries, with Annie Merrill

Coast Range Radio - March 26, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes
We 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 ...

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Can We Clean Up Humboldt Bay Before the Sea Rises?

EcoNews Report - March 23, 2024 17:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
The industrial legacy of the 20th Century left many contaminated sites around Humboldt Bay. Our second special episode on communities at risk from sea level rise features local residents talking about several of the most vulnerable sites, including Tuluwat Island, Butcher Slough in Arcata, and t...

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ROSS REID How We Talk About What Matters /369

For The Wild - March 20, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Inviting listeners into his deep connection with the forest and the natural world, Ross Reid brings an inspirational energy and commitment to this interview. Connecting around their shared love for old growth and wild places, Ross and Ayana consider what it means to get people interested in prot...

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You Loved the Movie. Now See Humboldt's Dunes!

EcoNews Report - March 16, 2024 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Spice up your life by checking out the spectacular dunes of Humboldt County! Just like the shifting sands of Arrakis in the iconic Dune series, these sandy landscapes are home to unique and fragile ecosystems, adapted over millennia, which were once at threat from exploitation. And who are the F...

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JAROD K. ANDERSON on Reclaiming Limits [ENCORE]

For The Wild - March 13, 2024 18:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Jarod K Anderson, originally aired in January 2023.  Bringing us into his world of nature, awe, and magical poetry, guest Jarod K. Anderson reminds us that our human journey is worthy of just as much love and affection as the natural world arou...

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The Canopy of Titans! With Author Paul Koberstein

Coast Range Radio - March 11, 2024 21:00 - 44 minutes
On 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 Paci...

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Dam Removal is Sometimes Messy (But Worth It)

EcoNews Report - March 09, 2024 18:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Klamath River dam removal is underway, with drawdown of the three largest reservoirs occurring now and physical removal of these dam structures scheduled for this summer. The dams have impacted the river for over a hundred years and dam removal has its own environmental impacts. While fish biolo...

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THREE BLACK MEN on the World as Ritual /368

For The Wild - March 06, 2024 19:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
This week we are thrilled to bring you a special conversation from a dear friend of the podcast, Bayo Akomolafe. Recorded while in Ghana for the Three Black Men Tour, this conversation features the voices of Bayo Akomolafe, Resmaa Menakem, Orland Bishop, Victoria Santos and Okhiogbe Omonblanks O...

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Season 2- Episode 2 - Ode to Flaco, the Owl

Women's Power to Heal Mother Earth! - March 02, 2024 23:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Ode to Flaco- magical, mystical citizen of NYC Partial Transcript- Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl, beloved citizen of NYC died sometime early Friday morning, on Feb 23rd. The snow moon has just risen in the eerie early morning. The researchers from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation...

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Hydrogen Buses Coming to Humboldt

EcoNews Report - March 02, 2024 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Mass transit along California's North Coast is difficult. The long distances between rural communities are trouble for ordinary battery-powered electric buses, which don't have the range to make there-and-back trips. Hydrogen buses, however, are able to make the long journey. And thanks to a $38...

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ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Pleasure as Birthright [ENCORE] /367

For The Wild - February 28, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with adrienne maree brown which originally aired in April 2019. adrienne maree brown begins this week’s episode by asking, “If we were not ashamed of our pleasure, what would become possible? If we started to understand that pleasure is something th...

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Fruit Trees in Fabric Pots with Kevin Espiritu

Orchard People - February 28, 2024 17:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Learn when, why and how to grow fruit trees in fabric pots. Our show guest on the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Kevin Espiritu of EpicGardening.com. Kevin is the author of the book Grow Bag Gardening: The Revolutionary Way to Grow Bountiful Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit and Flower...

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Episode 156 - Healing Power of Scaler Waves

Women's Power to Heal Mother Earth! - February 27, 2024 23:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Maya explores the way Sanskrit chants,  pilgrimages and other awe-inspiring practices of Nature heighten the natural scalar waves responsible for cohesion and wellness in the body. The way science views the pilgrim’s experience can be said, as follows:  Scalar waves generated in the body provide...

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Are we on the Cusp of a Community Forest Revolution?! With Alexander Harris

Coast Range Radio - February 27, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutes
Where 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 p...

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Is Humboldt Bay the Canary in the Coal Mine for Sea Level Rise?

EcoNews Report - February 23, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Join us for the first in a special series on communities at risk from sea level rise featuring local residents who share their thoughts on the challenges and potential solutions facing our region.  Many thanks to Marnie Atkins, Jerry Rohde, Nate Faith, Troy Nicolini, Adam Canter, and to Jessie ...

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1. Sheffield's Tree Story

Woodland Walks - The Woodland Trust Podcast - February 22, 2024 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Our setting for this episode, Sheffield’s Endcliffe Park seems like many other popular green spaces, but it has a hidden history: its waterways once helped fuel the Industrial Revolution in the ‘Steel City’. We discover how Sheffield’s past intertwines with trees as local urban forester, Catheri...

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ERIK ASSADOURIAN on Dreams of the Long Future /366

For The Wild - February 21, 2024 19:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Introducing listeners to his way of worship and connection to the Earth, this week’s guest Erik Assadourian offers insight into the religious framing and practical applications of the Gaian way. Erik shares his spiritual path of recognizing interdependence with the Earth and shares how he dreams...

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Plants of the Gods: S5E10. The Mushroom Moment

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast - February 21, 2024 06:12 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
In this season finale of Plants of the Gods, join host Dr. Mark Plotkin as we learn about everything mushrooms, which are truly having a moment! Drawing from an article he published in HerbalGram, Dr. Plotkin provides an overview of how our daily lives are transformed by fungi, in the past, pres...